Literary Device Quiz

Hyperbole

• These groceries weigh a ton.

• Quick, like a bunny!

• The trees wept.

• The killer cat camped in my car.

Ice cream is my kryptonite!

• Allusion

• Mood

• Tone

• Alliteration

The clock's face frowned at me when I woke up late.

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Plot

• The sequence of events that happen in the story.

• The writer's reference to a different writing, piece, or person the reader will recognize

• The feeling the reader gets from the reading.

• The way the author feels about the reading.

Mood

• The sequence of events that happen in the story.

• The writer's reference to a different writing, piece, or person the reader will recognize

• The feeling the reader gets from the reading.

• The way the author feels about the reading.

Tone

• The sequence of events that happen in the story.

• The writer's reference to a different writing, piece, or person the reader will recognize

• The feeling the reader gets from the reading.

• The way the author feels about the reading.

Our love is just blooming like the morning rose at dawn.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Allusion

He is the shining star of the school play.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Allusion

Wordlessly watching

He waits by the window

and wonders

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Alliteration

The new fallen snow was perfect and undisturbed,

except for a little rabbit trail of footsteps leading into the woods.

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Imagery

• Allusion