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

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which is an example of onomatopoeia?

• Yes!

• Now!

• Boom!

• Why?

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

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

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

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

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

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

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Symbolism

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

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

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Symbolism

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

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

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Oxymoron

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

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

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

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

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4