Literary Devices Quiz Review

What literary device is being used in the following line?
"Their hair was like hay."

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Stanza
• Personification

What literary device is being used in the following line?
"The red rocket soared through the atmosphere"

• Assonance
• Alliteration
• Symbolism
• Personification

What literary device is being used in the following line?
"The houses were asleep"

• Alliteration
• Assonance
• Personification
• Symbolism

What literary device is being used in the following line?
The wind whipped through the willows

• Symbolism
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Alliteration

What literary device is being used in the following line?
"She was a picture of beauty"

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Alliteration
• Assonance

What do we call the division of lines into groups?

• Personification
• Stanzas
• Idioms
• Sentimentality

What is the dictionary definition of a word?

• Connotation
• iamb
• Denotation
• Dictation

What is the cultural definition of a word?

• Oxymoron
• Connotation
• Denotation
• Connection

What literary device is being used in the following line?
"The dark light of the candle swept through the living room"

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Oxymoron
• Onomatopoeia

Which of the following is onomatopoeia?

• "Computer"
• "Solid skin"
• "Slap"
• "Bright light"