ENG 10 Literary Devices Assessment

Using descriptive writing to create images in the reader's mind

• Imagery

• Alliteration

• Allusion

Giving human characteristics to objects/non-human things

• Caesura

• Symbolism

• Personification

A comparison that does NOT use the words "like" or "as"

• Simile

• Metaphor

A reference to someone/something in history or pop culture

• Personification

• Allusion

• Symbolism

The difference between appearance and reality. (There are three version of this literary device: Dramatic __________, Verbal __________, and Situational __________.

 “The fog still slept above the drowned city, where the lamps glimmered like carbuncles…” (from Jekyll & Hyde)

Which literary device is being used in the underlined portion of the above quote?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Allusion

 “And the lawyer, scared by the thought, brooded a while on his own past, groping in all the corners of memory, least by chance some Jack-in-the-Box of an old iniquity should leap to light there.” (from Jekyll & Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Which of the following literary devices is being utilized in the underlined portion of the above quote?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

“It was the first time that the lawyer had been received in that part of his friend's quarters; and he eyed the dingy, windowless structure with curiosity, and gazed round with a distasteful sense of strangeness as he crossed the theatre, once crowded with eager students and now lying empty and silent, the tables laden with chemicals, the floor covered with crates and littered with packing straw, and the light falling dimly through the glass ceiling.” (from Jekyll & Hyde)

Which literary device is being used in the underlined portion of the above quote?

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Juxtaposition

• Allusion

“He loves to hear the birds, those choristers in Nature’s great cathedral.” (from Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens)

Which of the following literary devices is being used in the underlined portion of the above quote?

• Hyperbole

• Allusion

• Metaphor

• Parallel Structure

“...carrying a bottle from which he pours a radiant nectar, two score and ten years old, that blushes in the glass to find itself so famous, and fills the whole room with the fragrance of summer grapes.” (from Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens)

Which of the following literary devices could be applied to the underlined portion of the above quote?

• Simile

• Personification

• Parallel Structure

• Allusion