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Literary Devices Quiz

Authored by ERIC BALDWIN

English

5th Grade

CCSS covered

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Literary Devices Quiz
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is Author's Craft?

Literary Devices

Style

Narrative Elements

All of the above

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.W.4.2D

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is a simile?

A comparison of two different things using "like" or "as"

A direct comparison of two different things

What someone does when they're really happy

Animals or objects are given human qualities

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

What is a metaphor?

An electric car

A direct comparison of two different things

A comparison of two different things using "like" or "as"

Using quotations around text evidence

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is personification?

When a non-living object or animal is spoken of as though it is a person

When characterization brings a character to life in a story

Comparing two different things using "like" or "as"

When a third-person narrator has knowledge of all things in a story

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is a hyperbole?

A literal comparison of two different things

An exaggeration for purposeful effect, and not to be taken literally

A comparison of literal things

A very active aquatic mammal

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is an allusion?

A magic trick

When your eyes play tricks on you

When an author refers to a person, event, thing in history, or work of art or literature

When an author makes something disappear in a story

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is parallel structure?

Two identical buildings

Two lines that never intersect

Repetition of the same pattern of words in a sentence or a passage.

Two characters who are the same height

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

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