Match the literary terms with their meaning. 1. Simile
2. Imagery
3. Hyperbole
4. Metaphor
5. Repetition
6. Rhyme
7. Flasback
8. Tone
9. Mood
10. Rhetoric

Answer choices.

A- An over-exaggeration.
B- When an author refers to something that happened earlier in a story or something that happened even before the story began.
C- A comparison using 'like' or 'as'.
D- The feeling an author gives towards their subject in a text.
E- Details an author uses to appeal to the reader's senses.
F- The feeling a reader gets when reading a text.
G- The repeating of words or phrases in a sentences, paragraphs, or lines of poems.
H- A comparison not using 'like' or 'as'.
I- The art of effective persuasive speaking and/or writing.
J- Corresponding sounds at the ends of words.

Read the excerpt from "save the redwoods."another, one of the finest in the grove, more than three hundred feet high, was skinned alive to a height of one hundred and sixteen feet from the ground and the bark sent to london to show how fine and big that calaveras tree was—as sensible a scheme as skinning our great men would be to prove their greatness. which  best  describes how the excerpt appeals to readers’ emotions? the excerpt provides facts about the tree, which impresses readers’ scientific minds. the excerpt describes how the tree traveled to london, which excites the readers’ sense of adventure. the excerpt compares the tree to a person, which makes readers feel sympathetic toward the tree. the excerpt explains how to skin a tree, which makes readers feel awed at the height of the tree.