Column A Column B
1.
a. motto
2.
b. pun
"Why is it a weekend visit to your local Mickey
D's may be deadly?"
"I'd squash the cockroach who messed her up
like that."
"...Harlem streets you knew like the black of
your hand."
Live life to the fullest every day.
3.
C. allusion
4.
d. metaphor
5.
e. alliteration
6.
f. personification
7.
"Blues and Be-bop and being black before it
was considered hip."
"I bruise easily is one of the lies she sprinkles
like sugar."
"I come to school sporting a johnny-print across
my left cheek..."
"Money is the alpha and the omega."
"Only the wind shatters the silence."
g. euphemism
h. epithet
8.
i. simile
9.
j. hyperbole
10.
"Her world felt so empty and hollow, she could
hold it at one end and ring it like a bell."