LITERARY DEVICES EXAM ASSESSMENT

But a better butter makes a batter better. What is the literary device used in the sentence?

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

Those clucking chickens are driving me crazy! What literary device is used in the sentence?

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

The afternoon sun sliced through the cracks of barn walls." What literary device is used?

• consonance

• allusion

• metaphor

• personification

"Oh, death, where is thy sting? Oh, grave, where is thy victory?" - from the Bible, 1 Corinthians 15:55. Here, the speaker addresses death and the grave as if they were people, and expresses his belief in the power of God to overcome them.

What type of figure of speech is used in the verse?

• simile

• metaphor

• apostrophe

• hyperbole

In this poem:

"My love is like a red, red rose" - from "A Red, Red Rose" by Robert Burns

What figure of speech is used?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• metonymy

"Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are." - from the children's poem by Jane Taylor. In this poem, the speaker addresses a star, expressing his curiosity about its nature and qualities.

In this poem, what literary devices particularly sound devices is used in this poem?

• repetition

• consonance

• assonance

• alliteration

I heard the trailing garments of the Night

Sweep through the marble halls!

   I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light

  From the celestial walls!

-        Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “Hymn to the Night”

In this poem what are the imagery that has been used in the poem

• visual and olfactory

• tactile and gustatory

• Visual and auditory

• Tactile and visual

"Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark inn-yard, And he tapped with his whip on the shutters, but all was locked and barred; He whistled a tune to the window, and who should be waiting there But the landlord's black-eyed daughter, Bess, the landlord's daughter, Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair." - from "The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes.

In this poem what are the imagery used?

• Olfactory and tactile

• visual and tactile

• visual and auditory

• none of these

Day after day, day after day

  We stuck, nor breath nor motion;

As idle as a painted ocean

Upon a painted ocean.

-        Samuel Taylor Coleridge “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

In this poem, what is the appropriate rhyme scheme?

• A,C,B,B

• A,B,C,C

• A,C,B,A

• B,A,C,C

"'Cause baby, you're a firework

Come on, show 'em what you're worth"

What figure of speech is used in these lines?

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• alliteration