Identify Literary Devices Quiz

Which literary device is used in the following sentence: "The wind whispered through the trees"?

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Identify the literary device in this sentence: "The thunder clapped angrily in the night sky."

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

What literary device is being used in the phrase: "He was as brave as a lion"?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

• Juxtaposition

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

In the statement "This is the beginning of the end," which literary device is being used?

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

• Irony

• Juxtaposition

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Which literary device is illustrated by the phrase: "The world is a stage"?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Identify the literary device in the following sentence: "The fire station burned down."

• Verbal Irony

• Situational Irony

• Dramatic Irony

• Cosmic Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Which literary device is used in the sentence: "She sells sea shells by the sea shore"?

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What literary device is being used in the phrase: "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse"?

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

In the story where the audience knows the hero is walking into a trap, but the hero does not, which literary device is being used?

• Verbal Irony

• Situational Irony

• Dramatic Irony

• Cosmic Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Which literary device is used in the sentence: "The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky"?

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D