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WorksheetsLiterary Devices
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 8mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
The author's attitude or feelings towards the writing and the readers is the ________.
a)
mood
b)
tone
2.
What is the tone of this image?
a)
elated
b)
appreciative
c)
accusing
d)
conceited
3.
Which word accurately describes the son's tone in the following dialogue?
Father: We are going to Disney World!
Son: Yay!!!!
Father: We are going to Disney World!
Son: Yay!!!!
a)
irritated
b)
annoyed
c)
uninterested
d)
ecstatic
4.
_________ is the feeling the reader gets as he/she reads the text.
a)
mood
b)
tone
5.
What is the "mood" of a story?
a)
Emotions audience feels from a given passage.
b)
The time and place of the story.
c)
The summary of events of the story.
d)
The lesson the reader learns from the story.
6.
Two kids meet up in the hallway and start to fight.
a)
Conflict
b)
Foreshadowing
c)
Analogy
d)
Onomatopoeia
7.
Shine bright like a diamond.
a)
Dramatic Irony
b)
Metaphor
c)
Simile
d)
Hyperbole
8.
A black cat can mean good marriage and a good future in southern England.
a)
Irony
b)
Metaphor
c)
Onomatopoeia
d)
Symbolism
9.
I turned into the living room and heard the click-clack of her knitting needles.
a)
Onomatopoeia
b)
Theme
c)
Symbolism
d)
Alliteration
10.
Life is a highway
a)
Simile
b)
Metaphor
c)
Connotation
d)
Characterization
11.
When an author gives an inanimate object human or living characteristics. For example: the trees danced in the wind.
a)
personification
b)
alliteration
c)
simile
d)
oxymoron
12.
An over-exaggeration. For example: I was standing in line forever.
a)
personification
b)
cliche
c)
metaphor
d)
hyperbole
13.
A comparison of two unlike things without using like or as.
He was a bear in the the goal.
He was a bear in the the goal.
a)
simlie
b)
paradox
c)
metaphor
d)
allusion
14.
Mark is as fast as a cheetah. This is an example of the following:
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
idiom
d)
analogy
15.
POW!
Bang!
Buzzzzzz....
Bang!
Buzzzzzz....
a)
alliteration
b)
personification
c)
Onomatopoeia
d)
assonance
16.
a word that represents a sound.
a)
onomatopoeia
b)
oxymoron
c)
personification
d)
euphemism
17.
struggle between opposing forces
Ex. Lennie vs. Curley; Lennie vs. George; Candy vs. himself; Ranch men vs. society
Ex. Lennie vs. Curley; Lennie vs. George; Candy vs. himself; Ranch men vs. society
a)
fight
b)
feud
c)
conflict
d)
argument
18.
Dialogue is
a)
two or more people speaking to each other in a written conversation
b)
one person speaking to the audience
c)
three or more people speaking to each other in written conversation
d)
None of these
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