Literary Devices Quiz

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What literary device is used here: "His heart is made of stone."

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

• alliteration

Answer explanation

A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another.

In contrast to a simile, a metaphor refers directly by using the word "is," while a simile uses "like" or "as."

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Which of these is a simile?

• This tree is the god of the forest.

• The tree's leaves danced in the wind.

• This tree is like the god of the forest.

• The tree was larger than a mountain.

Answer explanation

A simile is a comparison of two things using the words "like" or "as."

"The tree is the god of the forest" is a metaphor.

"The tree's leaves danced in the wind" is an example of personification.

"The tree was larger than a mountain" is an example of a hyperbole.

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

____ is a figurative language in which nonhuman things or abstractions are represented as having human qualities

• imagery

• allusion

• illusion

• personification

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

What literary device is used in the following line of the poem, Beach Orchestra?

"Boom crash crunch crunch"

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• allusion

• personification

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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 literary device is used in the following excerpt from the poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

The fair breeze blew,

the white foam flew,

The furrow followed free:

We were the first that ever burst

Into that silent sea.

• alliteration

• simile

• metaphor

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Did you know....Nike uses the winged greek goddess of victory in their campaigns?

The Nike swoosh represents the wings of the goddess.

What type of literary device is Nike using?

• alliteration

• allusion

• personification

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

"I'm dying of laughter!" is an example of what literary device?

• simile

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• repetition

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

When you can sense something is going to happen in a book or movie, what type of literary device is being used?

• hyperbole

• personification

• foreshadowing

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

In Greek mythology, Achilles was a hero of the Trojan War, the greatest of all the Greek warriors.

If someone said, "Chocolate is my Achilles heel!", what type of literary device is being used?

• personification

• alliteration

• allusion

• simile

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

“All religions, arts, and sciences are branches of the same tree.” — Albert Einstein

What literary device did Einstein use in this quote?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• foreshadowing

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D