Exam question 1 · Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration

Identify the literary device whereby two dissimilar entities are compared through the explicit use of the words "like" or "as".

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, compare, use · To what, where: literary device, two dissimilar entities, explicit use, words

This is exam question 1 of lesson 46 «Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration» of the English course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 device	det
3	literary	literary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 device	amod
4	device	device	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	whereby	whereby	ADV	PronType=Int	10 compared	advmod
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 entities	nummod
7	dissimilar	dissimilar	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 entities	compound
8	entities	entity	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 compared	nsubj:pass
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 compared	aux:pass
10	compared	compare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 device	acl:relcl
11	through	through	ADP	_	14 use	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 use	det
13	explicit	explicit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 use	compound
14	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 compared	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 words	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 words	det
17	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 use	nmod
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 like	punct
19	like	like	INTJ	_	10 compared	discourse
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 like	punct
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 as	cc
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 as	punct
23	as	as	ADP	_	19 like	conj
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 as	punct
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the literary device			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent device=Theme
2	compare	present · passive		two dissimilar entities	the explicit use of the words	whereby property	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	use			the words			nom use «act transitive»: of=patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The simile

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 simile	det
2	simile	simile	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

The metaphor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 metaphor	det
2	metaphor	metaphor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Alliteration

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alliteration	alliteration	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Personification

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Personification	personification	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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