Middle Ages: Literary Devices Pretest

What is a literary device that represents the comparison of two unlike things often introduced using like or as?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Allegory

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Alliteration is _____.

• the repetition of vowel sounds

• the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

• the hidden meaning behind the story, song, or movie

• a reference to another piece of literature within a story

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What literary device represents a thing or abstraction as having human characteristics?

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

• Personification

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Which options below are an example of a metaphor (select ALL that apply)?

• Laughter is the best medicine

• Time is money

• They are buried in a sea of paper

• Her heart was like it was made of ice

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Satire is _____.

• a type of fabric used to make dresses for women during the Middle Ages

• the art of making someone or something look ridiculous, raising laughter in order to embarrass, humble, or discredit its targets

• the feeling one gets when they are very passionate about something that it makes them feel angry

• the art of representing the irony within the text that includes depicting the speaker as having an odd or funny personality

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

An allegory is _____.

• saying something you don't mean

• comparing two unlike things using "like" or "as"

• a story or poem than can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning

• when you reference another song, story, or movie within a peice of literature

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

What does imagery do in poetry? (Check ALL that apply)

• Draws the reader into a sensory experience

• Appeals only to our sense of sight, smell, and touch

• Creates similar snapshots in a reader's mind

• Uses an object to represent an idea

• Helps readers imagine exactly what is being described

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is verbal irony?

• saying something that does not match what is meant

• the repetition of vowel sounds

• when the audience knows something the characters in the story don't know

• when you say something that is over exaggerated

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CCSS.L.8.5A

What is dramatic irony?

• when the characters are exaggerated in the story

• when the story makes a reference to another story

• when the audience knows something that the characters in the story do not know

• when what is said is not what is meant

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CCSS.L.8.5A

Which line is a Hyperbole?

• His heart went bathing in a bath of blisses and melted into a thousand kisses.

• True poverty can find a song to sing.

• Do not rebuke my poverty again.

• There was a knight who was a lusty liver.

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A