Lit devices examples
Authored by Nick Amin
English
10th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What type of literary device is the following quote?
"I got power, poison, pain"?
Alliteration
Assonance
Metaphor
Anaphora
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5
CCSS.L.5.5
CCSS.RL.2.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.L.6.5
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What type of literary device is the following quote from Fahrenheit 451?
"Here." Far away across town in the night, the faintest whisper of a turned page. "The Book of Job."
Irony
Juxtaposition
Oxymoron
Allusion
Tags
CCSS.L.7.5A
CCSS.RI.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.4
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What type of literary device is in the quote below?
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
Epistrophe
Anaphora
Personification
Foreshadowing
Tags
CCSS.RL.2.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What type of literary device is in the quote below?
I know the action in the street is excitin’
But Jesus, between all the bleedin’ ‘n’ fightin’
I’ve been readin’ and writin’
Assonance
Alliteration
Metaphor
Onomatopeia
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5
CCSS.L.5.5
CCSS.RL.2.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.L.6.5
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What type of literary device is in the quote below?
It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation: Yes, we can.
It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail towards freedom through the darkest of nights: Yes, we can.
It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness: Yes, we can.
Anaphora
Irony
Epistrophe
Paradox
Tags
CCSS.RL.2.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What type of literary device is in the quote below?
I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse.
Onomatopeia
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Personification
Tags
CCSS.L.11-12.5A
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Montag glancing at the vent in part one of F451 and feeling guilty about the (unknown to us) contents inside is an example of what literary device?
Foreshadowing
Flashback
Irony
Juxtaposition
Tags
CCSS.RL.9-10.5
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