"I open my eyes- my fingers grasp a sleeve, an arm. A wounded man? I yell at him- no answer- a dead man. My hand gropes farther, splinters of wood- now I remember again that we are lying in the graveyard....I crawl still farther under the coffin, it shall protect me; though Death himself lies in it."
What literary device is used to show the speaker's determination?
a. alliteration
b. irony
c. metaphor
d. personification
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The correct answer is d. A key to noticing personification is when the thing personified (in this case Death) is written with a capital letter. Here the speaker won't even allow that to stop him.
However, the best wrong answer is B, since there is some irony in a dead body being used to keep the speaker alive.
The EOC will often use answer choices that appear in the passage, but do not directly answer the question.
However, the best wrong answer is B, since there is some irony in a dead body being used to keep the speaker alive.
The EOC will often use answer choices that appear in the passage, but do not directly answer the question.
Thanks, Ashley from Ms. Stamey's class, for a thoroughly gruesome story. Now I'm going to have nightmares!
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