Literary Devices Re-Test

"Polly Pocket picked a purple plant" is an example of:

• Alliteration

• Contrast

• Simile

• Personification

A comparison between two objects without using "like" or "as"...

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

• Personification

Which of the following is a simile?

• "She is an angel."

• "jumbo shrimp"

• "She is like an angel."

• "The wind whistled through the trees."

The moral or message of the story is called the...

• Theme

• Tone

• Voice

• Mood

"Buzz" and "Bam" are examples of

• Allusions

• Allegories

• Onomatopoeia

• Similes

The giving of human-like traits to inanimate objects is...

• Personification

• Irony

• Metaphor

• Metonymy

The use of "I", "me", "mine" in a point of view is ...

• First Person

• Second Person

• Third Person

• Omniscient

The reader knows what ALL the characters are thinking, saying, and doing. ("God-like")

• First person

• Second person

• Third person

• Omniscient

The author's feelings towards the subject or topic is called the ...

• Tone

• Mood

• Theme

• None of the these

The feeling created in the reader as a result of the tone and atmosphere of the story...

• Theme

• Mood

• Paradox

• Tone