Literary Devices Review Quiz

If I describe a poem as "sad" or "melancholy," I am describing what?

• Denotation

• Imagery

• Personification

• Tone

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

"Tiger Tiger Burning Bright" uses what literary device?

• Personification

• Oxymoron

• Alliteration

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"She walks in beauty, like the night" uses what literary device?

• Oxymoron

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

The use of an apple to describe anger or sin in "The Poison Tree" is what literary device?

• Sentimentality

• Denotation

• Tone

• Symbolism

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

"Could twist the sinews of they heart" uses what literary device?

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Oxymoron

• Onomoatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The word "today" is ...

• Denotation

• Onomatopoeia

• Assonance

• iamb

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

"The very houses seem asleep" uses what literary device?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Understatement

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

"And all that's best of dark and bright" contains what literary device?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Assonance

• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Sonnets have 10 syllables per line, including 5 iambs. This is called Iambic Pentameter, which is a kind of ....

• Tone

• Meter

• Rhyme

• Stanza

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

The dictionary definition of a word is its

• Connotation

• Denotation

• Tone

• Symbolism

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D