Literary Devices Review Quiz #2

If I use the term "rat" to imply someone dirty or evil, what literary device am I using?

• Denotation

• Imagery

• Simile

• Connotation

What literary device is used in the following line: "This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon."

• Onomotapoeia

• Denotation

• Personification

• iamb

What literary device is being used in the following line: "Her eyes were like diamonds."

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Imagery

• Oxymoron

What literary device is being used in the following line: "Five miles meandering with a mazy motion through wood and dale the sacred river ran."

• Oxymoron

• Sentimentality

• Rhyme

• Alliteration

If I describe Blake's "The Lamb" as "light and innocent," what am I describing?

• Alliteration

• Tone

• Simile

• Stanza

What literary device is being used in the following line: "The heavy lightness of her gaze washed over me."

• Oxymoron

• Personification

• Denotation

• Imagery

The words "spit," "smash," and "hiss" are what literary device?

• iamb

• Sentimentality

• Understatement

• Onomatopoeia

Which of the following is an iamb?

• Folder

• Biggest

• Wire

• Release

What literary device is being used in the following line: "The wind was a whisper from a long lost love."

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Understatement

• Stanze

The number of syllables in a line is determined by a poem's ...

• Rhyme

• Denotation

• Meter

• Stanza