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Type: Multiple-Choice
Category: Figurative Language
Level: Grade 8
Standards: CCRA.L.5, L.8.5
Score: 4
Author: mzatcoff1
Created: 10 years ago

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Grade 8 Figurative Language CCSS: CCRA.L.5, L.8.5

And the silken, sad, uncertain
rustling of each purple curtain
Thrilled me — filled me with
fantastic terrors never felt before

What literary device is portrayed in the lines "uncertain/curtain"?
  1. Alliteration
  2. Rhyme
  3. Irony
  4. Allusion