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Stylistic Devices

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
He turned over, holding his nose, and a golden light danced and shattered just over his face.
a)
Simile
b)
Metaphor
c)
Personification
d)
Hyperbole
2.
His ordinary voice sounded like a whisper after the harsh note of the conch.
a)
Simile
b)
Metaphor
c)
Personfication
d)
Hyperbole
3.

"We've got to make smoke up there--or die."

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Personification

d)

Hyperbole

4.

The smoke was a tight little knot on the horizon uncoiling slowly.

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Personification

d)

Hyperbole

5.
Jack's hair and beard are bright blond. 
a)
literal language is used
b)
figurative language is used
6.
a comparison of one thing as if it were another
a)
alliteration
b)
simile
c)
metaphor
d)
personification
7.
a comparison of two unlike things using like, as, than, or resembles
a)
simile 
b)
metaphor
c)
personification
d)
onomatopoeia
8.
When he heard the scream, claws of fear tore at his scalp.
a)
literal language
b)
figurative language
9.
the repeated consonant sounds at the beginnings of words
(breeze blew briskly)
a)
alliteration
b)
consonance
c)
assonance
d)
onomatopoeia
10.
sounds that imitate meanings
(pop, fizz, hiss)
a)
alliteration
b)
consonance
c)
assonance
d)
onomatopoeia
11.
The whole world was staring at me.
a)
personification
b)
idiom
c)
onomatopoeia
d)
hyperbole
12.
The package took forever to arrive in the mail.
a)
hyperbole
b)
personification
c)
simile
d)
idiom
13.
The door protested as it opened slowly.
a)
metaphor
b)
hyperbole
c)
personification
d)
simile
14.
Winter’s icy grip caused people to shudder.
a)
hyperbole
b)
idiom
c)
personification
d)
simile
15.
This job is the cancer of my dreams and aspirations.
a)
personification
b)
idiom
c)
hyperbole
d)
metaphor
16.
The promise between us was a delicate flower.
a)
idiom
b)
personification
c)
metphor
d)
simile
17.
The use of vivid description to create a picture in the reader’s mind is what type of figurative language?
a)
Simile
b)
Idiom
c)
Personification
d)
Imagery
18.
"The gentle giant jumped in jubilation" is an example of which type of figurative language?
a)
Alliteration
b)
Allusion
c)
Personification
d)
Imagery
19.

Often, the most important decision an author makes is his or her word choice. What is word choice also known as?

a)

Diction

b)

Words

c)

Foreshadowing

d)

Metaphors

20.

30 years later and teenagers are still addicted, but now to vaping and texting. 30 years later and parents are even less involved in teens' lives than they were. 30 years later and God has been taken out of the picture and replaced with materialism...

WHAT DEVICE and WHAT TONE?

a)

hopeful tone through ethos

b)

frustrated tone through anaphora

c)

annoyed tone through bias

d)

humorous tone through jokes

21.
a)

rhetorical question

b)

metaphor

c)

anaphora

d)

simile

22.

And we've come here from every crack, crease, and crevice of our country to our Capital to say that, for all those whose cares have been our concern, we're ready.

a)

parallelism

b)

repetition

c)

antithesis

d)

alliteration

23.

Wear Nikes. People will notice, people will talk, because people want them.

a)

rhetorical question

b)

logos

c)

metaphor

d)

anaphora

24.
At the end of Toy Story 3 we see an adorable snippet of the infamous "balcony scene" with a hedgehog as Romeo and a Little Green Man as Juliet. He quotes, "But soft what light through yonder window breaks," and the LGM quotes, “Romeo, oh Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo.” This snippet is an example of an...
a)
Personification
b)
Allusion
c)
Parallelism
d)
Oxymoron
25.
"To think on death it is a misery,/ T o think on life it is a vanity;/ to think on the world verily it is,/ to think that here man hath no perfect bliss.' Peachum
a)
A. Exemplum
b)
B. Hyperbole
c)
C. Anaphora