ELA REGENTS EXAM REVIEW
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Setting - Correct Answers -What literary technique is illustrated in this passage?
"When Mr. and Mrs. Dursley woke up on the dull, gray Tuesday our story starts, there
was nothing about the cloudy sky outside to suggest that strange and mysterious things
would soon be happening all over the country. Mr. Dursley hummed as he picked out
his most boring tie for work, and Mrs. Dursley gossiped away happily as she wrestled a
screaming Dudley into his high chair.
None of them noticed a large, tawny owl flutter past the window. At half past eight, Mr.
Dursley picked up his briefcase, pecked Mrs. Dursley on the cheek, and
tried to kiss Dudley good-bye but missed, because Dudley was now having a tantrum
and throwing his cereal at the walls. "
Imagery (the sense of smell) - Correct Answers -What literary technique is illustrated in
this passage?
" In the period of which we speak, there reigned in the cities a stench barely conceivable
to us modern men and women. The streets stank of manure, the courtyards of urine, the
stairwells stank of moldering wood and rat droppings, the kitchens of spoiled cabbage
and mutton fat; the unaired parlors stank of stale dust, the bedrooms of greasy sheets,
damp featherbeds, and the pungently sweet aroma of chamber pots. The stench of
sulfur rose from the chimneys, the stench of caustic lyes from the tanneries, and from
the slaughterhouses came the stench of congealed blood. People stank of sweat and
unwashed clothes; from their mouths came the stench of rotting teeth, from their bellies
that of onions, and from their bodies, if they were no longer very young, came the
stench of rancid cheese and sour milk and tumorous disease."
Imagery (the sense of smell and sight) - Correct Answers -What literary technique is
illustrated in this passage?
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith,
his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly
through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a
swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him. The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage
and old rag mats."
Imagery (the sense of smell and sight)
, Personification - daffodils dancing - Correct Answers -What literary technique (s) is
illustrated in this passage?
"A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing
in the breeze."
Imagery (the sense of smell, taste, sight) - Correct Answers -What literary technique is
illustrated in this passage?
"In the hard-packed dirt of the midway, after the glaring lights are out and the people
have gone to bed, you will find a veritable treasure of popcorn fragments, frozen custard
dribblings, candied apples abandoned by tired children, sugar fluff crystals, salted
almonds, popsicles, partially gnawed ice cream cones and wooden sticks of lollipops."
Personification of the moon - Correct Answers -What literary technique is illustrated in
this passage?
"TITANIA: No night is now with hymn or carol blessed.
Therefore the moon, the governess of floods,
Pale in her anger, washes all the air,
That rheumatic diseases do abound."
Personification of nature
Imagery - Correct Answers -What literary technique is illustrated in this passage?
"But, on one side of the portal, and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rose-
bush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate gems, which might be imagined to
offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in, and to the
condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom, in token that the deep heart of
Nature could pity and be kind to him."
Metaphor (world/stage)
Symbol - Stage repr. the world, and the players repr. human beings - Correct Answers -
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their
exits and their entrances."
Metaphor (chaos/friend) - Correct Answers -"Chaos is a friend of mine."
Metaphor (souls/flowers) - Correct Answers -"Let us be grateful to people who make us
happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
Man vs. Supernatural (External Conflict) - Correct Answers -Casper, the friendly ghost,
scared away the kids from the party.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Setting - Correct Answers -What literary technique is illustrated in this passage?
"When Mr. and Mrs. Dursley woke up on the dull, gray Tuesday our story starts, there
was nothing about the cloudy sky outside to suggest that strange and mysterious things
would soon be happening all over the country. Mr. Dursley hummed as he picked out
his most boring tie for work, and Mrs. Dursley gossiped away happily as she wrestled a
screaming Dudley into his high chair.
None of them noticed a large, tawny owl flutter past the window. At half past eight, Mr.
Dursley picked up his briefcase, pecked Mrs. Dursley on the cheek, and
tried to kiss Dudley good-bye but missed, because Dudley was now having a tantrum
and throwing his cereal at the walls. "
Imagery (the sense of smell) - Correct Answers -What literary technique is illustrated in
this passage?
" In the period of which we speak, there reigned in the cities a stench barely conceivable
to us modern men and women. The streets stank of manure, the courtyards of urine, the
stairwells stank of moldering wood and rat droppings, the kitchens of spoiled cabbage
and mutton fat; the unaired parlors stank of stale dust, the bedrooms of greasy sheets,
damp featherbeds, and the pungently sweet aroma of chamber pots. The stench of
sulfur rose from the chimneys, the stench of caustic lyes from the tanneries, and from
the slaughterhouses came the stench of congealed blood. People stank of sweat and
unwashed clothes; from their mouths came the stench of rotting teeth, from their bellies
that of onions, and from their bodies, if they were no longer very young, came the
stench of rancid cheese and sour milk and tumorous disease."
Imagery (the sense of smell and sight) - Correct Answers -What literary technique is
illustrated in this passage?
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith,
his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly
through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a
swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him. The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage
and old rag mats."
Imagery (the sense of smell and sight)
, Personification - daffodils dancing - Correct Answers -What literary technique (s) is
illustrated in this passage?
"A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing
in the breeze."
Imagery (the sense of smell, taste, sight) - Correct Answers -What literary technique is
illustrated in this passage?
"In the hard-packed dirt of the midway, after the glaring lights are out and the people
have gone to bed, you will find a veritable treasure of popcorn fragments, frozen custard
dribblings, candied apples abandoned by tired children, sugar fluff crystals, salted
almonds, popsicles, partially gnawed ice cream cones and wooden sticks of lollipops."
Personification of the moon - Correct Answers -What literary technique is illustrated in
this passage?
"TITANIA: No night is now with hymn or carol blessed.
Therefore the moon, the governess of floods,
Pale in her anger, washes all the air,
That rheumatic diseases do abound."
Personification of nature
Imagery - Correct Answers -What literary technique is illustrated in this passage?
"But, on one side of the portal, and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rose-
bush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate gems, which might be imagined to
offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in, and to the
condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom, in token that the deep heart of
Nature could pity and be kind to him."
Metaphor (world/stage)
Symbol - Stage repr. the world, and the players repr. human beings - Correct Answers -
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their
exits and their entrances."
Metaphor (chaos/friend) - Correct Answers -"Chaos is a friend of mine."
Metaphor (souls/flowers) - Correct Answers -"Let us be grateful to people who make us
happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
Man vs. Supernatural (External Conflict) - Correct Answers -Casper, the friendly ghost,
scared away the kids from the party.
