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WorksheetsLiterary Terms Quiz #5
Total questions: 8
Worksheet time: 4mins
"His eye met hers as she sat there paler and whiter than anyone in the vast ocean of anxious faces about her."
Chiasmus
Anaphora
Zeugma
Synechdoche
CHOOSE TWO:
"Remember Cedric. Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good and kind and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory." (J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)
Anaphora
Aposiopesis
Polysyndeton
Asyndeton
"Mr. Pickwick took his hat and his leave." (Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers)
Polysyndeton
Zeugma
Apostrophe
Simile
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Asyndeton
Alliteration
Polysyndeton
Onomatopoeia
"Ingratitude! Thou marble-hearted fiend,/ More hideous when tho show'st thee in a child/ Than the sea monster." (William Shakespeare, King Lear)
Apostrophe
Anaphora
Alliteration
Aposiopesis
"He was utterly absorbed by the curious experience that still clung to him like a garment." (Lloyd C Douglas, Magnificent Obsession)
Chiasmus
Litotes
Apostrophe
Simile
"America! America! / God shed his grace on thee / And crown thy good with brotherhood / From sea to shining sea!" (Katherine Lee Bates, America the Beautiful
Chiasmus
Aposiopesis
Apostrophe
Anaphora
CHOOSE TWO:
"Hear the loud alarum bells,/ Brazen bells! / What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells! / In the startled ear of night / How they scream out their affright! / Too much horrified to speak, / They can only shriek, shriek, / Out of tune... / How they clang, and clash, and roar! What a horror they outpour / On the bosom of the palpitating air! / Yet the ear it fully knows, / By the twanging / And the clanging, / How the danger ebbs and flows..." (Edgar Allen Poe, "The Bells")
Onomatopoiea
Aposiopesis
Apostrophe
Polysyndeton
