Literary Devices Quiz

What is hyperbole?

• Giving human characteristics to inanimate things

• An exaggeration used to make or prove a point

• A word or phrase that means something other than what is actually being said

• None of the above

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What is an idiom?

• A word or phrase that means something other than what is actually being said

• Giving human characteristics to inanimate things

• An exaggeration used to make or prove a point

• Giving human characteristics to animate things

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What is a personification?

• All of the above

• An exaggeration used to make or prove a point

• Giving human characteristics to inanimate things

• A word or phrase that means something other than what is actually being said.

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Create your own example of an idiom

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Create your own example of a personification

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Create your own example of a hyperbole

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Which example is an idiom?

• You need to hit the hay.

• The trees danced in the wind.

• The fall leaves danced across the lawn.

• Your backpack weighs a ton!

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Which is an example of hyperbole?

• The wind howled.

• Dad's alarm clock screamed at him to wake up in the morning.

• Spill the beans right now!

• I am freezing!

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Which is an example of personification?

• I could eat a horse!

• The sun smiled down on us.

• My aunt tied the knot.

• You are all bent out of shape.

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