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Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 19mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
I turned into the living room and heard the click-clack of her knitting needles.
a)
Onomatopoeia
b)
Chiasmus
c)
Synedoche
d)
Alliteration
2.
Do I love you because you're beautiful? Or are you beautiful because I love you?
a)
Chiasmus
b)
Alliteration
c)
Polysyndeton
d)
Aposiopesis
3.
Let it go, let it go, can't hold it back anymore. Let it go, let it go, turn away and slam the door...
a)
Anaphora
b)
Alliteration
c)
Metonymy
d)
Onomatopoeia
4.
I'll succumb to something that I summon soon,
A solar shock of sudden sun or moon
To separate semesters, I'm the same as school
So search the sections, get to stepping fool
A solar shock of sudden sun or moon
To separate semesters, I'm the same as school
So search the sections, get to stepping fool
a)
Onomatopoeia
b)
Asyndeton
c)
Anaphora
d)
Alliteration
5.
Shakespeare was not unfamiliar with poetry.
a)
Chiasmus
b)
Hysteron Proteron
c)
Litotes
d)
Apostrophe
6.
The Oval Office is very busy these days.
a)
litotes
b)
metonymy
c)
hendiadys
d)
pleonasm
7.
He came despite the rain and weather.
a)
synchesis
b)
metonymy
c)
hendiadys
d)
hysteron proteron
8.
Well now, one winter it was so cold that all the geese flew backward and all the fish moved south and even the snow turned blue.
a)
hendiadys
b)
aposiopesis
c)
anaphora
d)
polysyndeton
9.
"Frailty, thy name is woman!"
a)
apostrophe
b)
alliteration
c)
asyndeton
d)
anaphora
10.
"I woke up, got out of bed, pulled on my clothes, rushed out the door"
a)
metonymy
b)
asyndeton
c)
polysyndeton
d)
synchesis
11.
His girlfriend and his hopes for all future happiness walked out of the dance and into the rain.
a)
polysyndeton
b)
zeugma
c)
litotes
d)
anaphora
12.
I asked the father for his daughter's hand
a)
anaphora
b)
Chiasmus
c)
Polysyndeton
d)
Synecdoche
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