Differentiating Fact & Opinion Practice Test

In a prose fiction passage, a young musician, Hana, practices scales late at night in an apartment with thin walls. She worries about bothering neighbors, so she plays softly, but then her teacher criticizes her for holding back. Hana begins to notice that when she plays timidly, she makes more mistakes, as if uncertainty spreads from her hands into the notes. On the night before her recital, she finally plays at full volume, and the sound fills the room.

Hana thinks: “The violin had been waiting for me to stop apologizing.”

The underlined sentence is an example of which type of rhetorical device?

In a prose fiction passage, a high school senior, Devon, waits backstage before a debate tournament. He watches other teams rehearse openings, flipping note cards as if shuffling a deck. Devon’s coach told him to speak slowly, but Devon feels his thoughts racing ahead of his mouth. He remembers the first time he debated, when his voice shook so badly he could barely finish his introduction. Now, even though he has practiced for weeks, he can’t stop imagining blanking out.

As the judge calls teams into the room, Devon thinks: “My stomach was a washing machine on the spin cycle.”

The underlined sentence can best be described as: