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WorksheetsAP Lit Devices
Total questions: 44
Worksheet time: 23mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
a part standing for the whole
a)
synecdoche
b)
metonymy
c)
hyperbole
d)
paradox
2.
treating something nonhuman like it's human
a)
personification
b)
metonymy
c)
hyperbole
d)
metaphor
3.
mixing of the senses
a)
synesthesia
b)
simile
c)
onomatopoeia
d)
synecdoche
4.
the formation of a word from the sound for which it is named
a)
syntesthesia
b)
onomatopoeia
c)
assonance
d)
litotes
5.
repeated consonant sounds
a)
alliteration
b)
assonance
c)
parallel structure
d)
anaphora
6.
the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses
a)
anaphora
b)
alliteration
c)
assonance
d)
metonymy
7.
repetition using the same grammatical pattern
a)
parallel structure
b)
alliteration
c)
litotes
d)
anaphora
8.
the opposite of what is meant or expected
a)
irony
b)
simile
c)
hyperbole
d)
synesthesia
9.
repetition of vowel sounds (usually within words)
a)
assonance
b)
alliteration
c)
synecdoche
d)
metonymy
10.
reference to something historical or literary outside the text
a)
allusion
b)
antithesis
c)
alliteration
d)
litotes
11.
comparison using "like" or "as"
a)
metaphor
b)
simile
c)
synecdoche
d)
anaphora
12.
comparison of two unlike things
a)
metaphor
b)
simile
c)
metonymy
d)
litotes
13.
close placement of two things to create a contrasting effect
a)
juxtaposition
b)
paradox
c)
modernism
d)
metaphor
14.
using a related word to represent another concept
a)
synecdoche
b)
metonymy
c)
metaphor
d)
simile
15.
non-rational imagery
a)
surrealism
b)
realism
c)
metonymy
d)
hyperbole
16.
opposites that are nonetheless true
a)
paradox
b)
parallel structure
c)
anitheses
d)
onomatopoeia
17.
exaggeration for effect
a)
hyperbole
b)
litotes
c)
metaphor
d)
synecdoche
18.
when the audience or reader knows more than the character(s)
a)
dramatic irony
b)
verbal irony
c)
situational irony
d)
paradox
19.
understatement to downplay an idea
a)
litotes
b)
hyperbole
c)
simile
d)
irony
20.
a contrast or opposition of two things using parallel structure
a)
antithesis
b)
hyperbole
c)
irony
d)
metonymy
21.
an object or element that represents a larger concept
a)
symbol
b)
irony
c)
antithesis
d)
allegory
22.
a story that symbolically corresponds part for part with another story
a)
allegory
b)
antithesis
c)
irony
d)
simile
23.
language that uses figures of speech to create associations and meaning beyond the literal
a)
figurative
b)
modern
c)
oxymoron
d)
paradox
24.
“it was a hope that she might fall to their level some day” (Hurston)
a)
paradox
b)
hyperbole
c)
litotes
d)
synecdoche
25.
"The forest eats itself and lives forever." (Kingsolver)
a)
paradox
b)
metonymy
c)
alliteration
d)
synesthesia
26.
"she leads the way, parting curtain after curtain of spiders' webs" (Kingsolver)
a)
metaphor
b)
simile
c)
metonymy
d)
paradox
27.
"One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." (Armstrong)
a)
alliteration
b)
metonymy
c)
irony
d)
anithesis
28.
“Ah see Mouth-Almighty is still sittin’ in de same place.” (Hurston)
a)
metonymy
b)
simile
c)
synecdoche
d)
paradox
29.
“So long as they get a name to gnaw on they don’t care whose it is” (Hurston)
a)
metaphor
b)
hyperbole
c)
synecdoche
d)
antithesis
30.
“Phoeby’s hungry listening helped Janie to tell her story.” (Hurston)
a)
synesthesia
b)
synecdoche
c)
assonance
d)
irony
31.
“She knew the world was a stallion rolling in the blue pasture of ether.” (Hurston)
a)
metaphor
b)
irony
c)
metonymy
d)
allegory
32.
“Old Nanny sat there rocking Janie like an infant and thinking back and back.” (Hurston)
a)
simile
b)
synecdoche
c)
metaphor
d)
hyperbole
33.
"To be or not to be . . . whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the things and arrows or outrageous fortune or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them"
a)
antithesis
b)
paradox
c)
simile
d)
allusion
34.
"the one short and fierce, the other tall and imperious" (Kingsolver)
a)
antithesis
b)
allusion
c)
alliteration
d)
synecdoche
35.
"a choir of seedlings arched their necks out"
a)
personification
b)
allusion
c)
paradox
d)
simile
36.
"Almost upon the western wave
Rested the broad bright Sun" (Coleridge)
Rested the broad bright Sun" (Coleridge)
a)
metonymy
b)
synecdoche
c)
hyperbole
d)
simile
37.
"Almost upon the western wave
Rested the broad bright Sun" (Coleridge
Rested the broad bright Sun" (Coleridge
a)
alliteration
b)
paradox
c)
onomatopoeia
d)
litotes
38.
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears." (Shakespeare)
a)
metonymy
b)
synecdoche
c)
synethesia
d)
simile
39.
Hamlet does not kill Claudius because he is praying, but we know Claudius isn't able to repent sincerely.
a)
dramatic irony
b)
verbal irony
c)
juxtaposition
d)
allegory
40.
"he stretched out his arms toward
the dark water in a curious way, and far as I was from him I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward—and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock." (Fitzgerald)
the dark water in a curious way, and far as I was from him I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward—and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock." (Fitzgerald)
a)
symbolism
b)
allusion
c)
alliteration
d)
synecdoche
41.
"I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life." (Fitzgerald)
a)
antithesis
b)
metonymy
c)
understatement
d)
personification
42.
"I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy." (Fitzgerald)
a)
paradox
b)
dramatic irony
c)
juxtaposition
d)
antithesis
43.
direct address to a concept or person not present
a)
apostrophe
b)
antecedent
c)
allusion
d)
soliloquy
44.
"now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music" (Fitzgerald Ch. 3)
a)
synesthesia
b)
oxymoron
c)
paradox
d)
simile
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