"Her doubt spread like ink in water" uses an explicit comparison with "like." Which term names the comparison?

In "The city was a furnace by noon," the sentence identifies the city with a furnace rather than saying it is like one. The device is:

A speaker compares jealousy to a courtroom where memory prosecutes, desire testifies, and pride serves as judge. The elaborate, surprising comparison is a:

Across a whole stanza, a friendship is treated as a garden: trust is soil, apologies are water, and neglect is frost. This structure is best called:

"The news arrived as softly as snow on grass" chiefly depends on which comparison?

In "His apology was a locked door," the object named after "was" is not literal but supplies the controlling comparison. The device is:

A poem treats the beloved's absence as a mathematical proof, with each silence as a premise and longing as the conclusion. The witty comparison is a:

A paragraph describes grief as a house: the narrator enters its rooms, dusts its shelves, and finally opens its attic. What term fits the developed comparison?

"The committee became a hive at deadline, each member carrying one urgent scrap of work." The main device is:

"Her answer was as sharp as broken glass" is best classified as a:

"The crown raised taxes again" uses an object associated with monarchy to mean royal authority. Which device is at work?

In "All hands reported to the deck," a body part stands for the sailors as whole people. The device is:

"The sleepless windows stared down at the street" gives a building part human behavior. Which device names that move?

A speaker turns from the audience and says, "Dead friend, forgive what I never said." What device is this direct address?

"The press camped outside the courthouse" uses the institution of journalism to mean reporters. The device is:

When a narrator says, "Three sails entered the harbor," and means three ships, the substitution is:

"The old staircase groaned under the secret" assigns a human response to an object. Which term applies?

In the middle of a poem, the speaker cries, "Mother, though you are gone, listen once more." This is an example of:

A novel repeatedly returns to the phrase "the locked room" whenever the family avoids its past. The repeated element is best called a:

In one scene, a cracked mirror comes to represent a character's divided self. The object functions as a:

A story in which a traveler named Greed rules a city called Appetite and loses it to Mercy is chiefly organized as:

Calling a reckless inventor "another Icarus" relies on the reader recognizing a mythic fall caused by overreaching. The reference is an:

A melody recurs whenever the exiled character nearly speaks about home, but it is not given a fixed one-to-one meaning. The recurrence is a:

A single red glove left on a chair comes to suggest the murder the family refuses to name. In that scene, the glove is a:

A beast fable consistently maps its animals onto social classes and political offices. The whole narrative works as:

A speaker says a betrayer "smiled with Judas at the table," expecting readers to know the biblical betrayal. The device is:

The audience knows the letter is forged, but the protagonist trusts it completely. Which dramatic device is created?

During a ruinous downpour, a character says, "Lovely weather for a picnic." The device is:

A sleep clinic's new alarm system malfunctions by keeping every patient awake all night. The reversal is best called:

"To keep his honor, he must confess his shame" appears self-contradictory but states the story's moral logic. The device is:

After surviving a shipwreck, a narrator calls the ordeal "an inconvenient swim." This is:

"I have carried this secret for a million years" enlarges the burden beyond literal possibility. The device is:

A character says she is "not displeased" when she is openly delighted. The negative phrasing is:

The phrase "deafening silence" joins contradictory terms into a compressed expression. Which term fits?

A safety demonstration accidentally starts the only fire in the building that year. The outcome is an example of:

"His sigh could bend the walls" makes emotion physically impossible in scale. Which device is this?

"Copper leaves flashed under a white noon sky" appeals most directly to which sense?

"Bells rang beyond the alley, thin and metallic" chiefly creates:

"The bitter rind stayed on her tongue" relies most on which kind of imagery?

"The room reeked of wet wool and smoke" appeals most directly to:

In "wild winds whipped the willows," the repeated initial w sound is:

In "the pale rain made lakes in the lane," the repeated long a sound is:

In "a mute night, a white boat," the repeated final t sound is an example of:

Words such as "buzz," "crackle," and "clang" imitate the noises they name. The device is:

After listing a rival's blunders, a narrator calls him "a genius of rare judgment." The tone is most precisely:

A speaker lingers over graves, fading photographs, and the loss of a vanished generation. The tone is best described as:

A narrator describes the old teacher's worn books and patient hands with solemn admiration. The tone is:

A speaker wants to leave home but keeps defending the town's faults with tenderness. The tone is most accurately:

A narrator recalls a childhood street with affection and a sense that it cannot be recovered. The tone is:

A speaker denounces the judge's cruelty and insists the sentence violates basic decency. The tone is:

A narrator describes the moon as a nosy aunt rearranging clouds for a party. The tone is most likely:

After every appeal fails, the speaker says quietly, "Then it is over. There is nothing left to fight for." The tone is:

A third-person sentence reports a character's thought in her own idiom without quotation marks: "Of course he would be late, the grand fool." The technique is:

A passage moves through fragments of perception: "bell, corridor, blue cup, mother's cough, no time." This mimicking of mental flow is:

A chapter presents only a character's silent first-person thoughts as she debates what to say next. The technique is:

A narrator insists he never lies, but his own dates contradict each other and other characters correct his claims. He is:

A cautious friend highlights the protagonist's recklessness by reacting oppositely in the same scenes. The friend functions as a:

A character begins and ends the novel with the same values, habits, and assumptions despite the plot's pressure. This is a:

A character who begins contemptuous of weakness but learns compassion through loss is best described as a:

A tragic hero refuses advice because he believes no law can bind a mind as great as his. This excessive pride is: