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Literary Device Practice

Authored by Erin Eberle

English

6th - 8th Grade

CCSS covered

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Literary Device Practice
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

In what literary device are two things are compared using the words "like" and "as"? 

Idiom
Simile
Metaphor
Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

In what literary device are two things compared directly?

Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Symbolism

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

In what literary device are human qualities given to animals or objects?

Personification
Symbolism
Idiom
Imagery

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

In what literary device does a writer spell out a sound?

Symbolism
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

In what literary device are objects used to represent ideas?

Metaphors
Idioms
Symbolism
Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

"His anger smoldered like a lit fuse."  This sentence is an example of what literary device?

Personification
Simile
Metaphor
Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

"He watched the thick, white smoke drift upward like a twisted ribbon dissolving in the sky." This sentence is an example of what literary device?

Idiom
Metaphor
Simile
Symbolism

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

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