Figurative Language/Literary Devices Pre-Test

Which is an example of alliteration?

• As straight as an arrow

• She sells seashells by the seashore

• Take a flight to an island in the sky

• I'm so hungry I could eat a horse

Which is an example of onomatopoeia?

• Yes!

• Now!

• Boom!

• Why?

Which is an example of a simile?

• As straight as an arrow

• The book grabbed my attention

• It's raining cats and dogs

• She is an angel

Which is an example of an archetype?

• Main character

• Damsel in distress

• Robert

• Antagonist

"Avoid like the plague" is an example of what?

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Hyperbole

"I've been waiting forever!" is an example of what?

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Symbolism

"His room was a hurricane of a mess" is an example of what?

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Symbolism

"Dinner was awfully good" is an example of what?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Oxymoron

• Onomatopoeia

Which choice is a figure of speech in which the absent or dead are spoken to as if present and inanimate objects as if they were living?

• Archetype

• Allusion

• Apostrophe

• Alliteration

Which choice a reference to something in the past that the writer assumes the reader will recognize? "Your nose is growing" from Pinnochio)

• Archetype

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Apostrophe