Torres Literary Devices Quiz

What literary device is used when you want to use a figurative meaning of a word?

• Consonance

• Connotation

• Denotation

• Simile

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

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CCSS.RL.5.4

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

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CCSS.L.5.5A

A word that imitates the sound it describes.

• Personification.

• Onomatopoeia

• Motif

• Metaphor

The sea lashed out in anger at the ships, unwilling to tolerate another battle.

Which device is represented in the sentence above?

• allegory

• oxymoron

• imagery

• personification

Choose ALL of the metaphors.

• Time is money.

• You are my sunshine.

• The tall girl stood out like a sore thumb.

• He has a heart of stone

Choose ALL of the similes.

• Busy as a bee.

• You're a couch potato.

• Brave as a lion.

• Clean as a whistle.

croak, caw, buzz, whirr, swish, hum, quack, meow, oink, and tweet are examples of what literary device?

• personfication

• Onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• hyperbole

Choose the sentence that illustrates alliteration.

• John fell in love with the Jane's long, flowing black hair.

• Dreams are the medicine to the soul.

• Betty bought butter but the butter was bitter, so Betty bought better butter to make the bitter butter better.

• None of the above illustrate alliteration

The stony wall enclosed the garden.

• assonance

• consonance

• none

• rhyme