Literary Device Assessment

The wicked witch of the west lives in a castle. This is an example of which literary device?

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Allliteration
• Personification 

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The assignment was a breeze.  This is an example of which literary device?

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Alliteration
• Personification 

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

A comparison using like or as. 

• Simile
• Metaphor 
• Personification
• Alliteration 

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The stars danced in the sky. This is an example of which literary device?

• Alliteration
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification 

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

The words below are an example of what type of literary device?
Boom! Zoom! Pow!

• Simile
• Onomatopeia 
• Metaphor 
• Personification

The boy is as tall as a tree.  This is an example of which literary device?

• Personification 
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Assonance 

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

When an author gives an inanimate object human or living characteristics. For example: the trees danced in the wind.

• personification
• alliteration
• simile
• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

An over-exaggeration. For example: I was standing in line forever.

• personification
• cliche
• metaphor
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

A comparison of two unlike things without using like or as. 
He was a bear in the the goal.

• simlie
• paradox
• metaphor
• allusion

Mark is as fast as a cheetah. This is an example of the following:

• simile
• metaphor
• idiom
• analogy

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B