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WorksheetsLiterary Terms Quiz #7A
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
"When it comes, the landscape listens, / Shadows hold their breath," (Emily Dickinson, "There's a certain slant of light")
Anaphora
Hendiadys
Oxymoron
Personification
Simile
"The wind stood up and gave a shout. He whistled on his two fingers." (James Stephens, "The Wind")
Aposiopesis
Asyndeton
Chiasmus
Litotes
Personification
"Death lays his icy hand on kings." (James Shirley, "The Glories of Our Blood and State.")
Aposiopesis
Litotes
Oxymoron
Personification
When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
Asyndeton
Chiasmus
Oxymoron
Zeugma
"... the very pin of his heart cleft with the blind bow-boy's butt shaft. And is he a man to encounter Tybalt?" (Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet)
Alliteration
Zeugma
Oxymoron
Tmesis
The sun shone with light, heat, power.
Asyndeton
Metaphor
Hendiadys
Tmesis
"Ed's buddy was in the market for a new set of wheels and wanted Ed's opinion about a particular model of Lexus." (Douglas T. Kendrick, Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life)
Anaphora
Hendiadys
Personification
Synechdoche
She took his hand and his heart.
Chiasmus
Polysyndeton
Personification
Zeugma
It sure is nice and cool today.
Apostrophe
Hendiadys
Oxymoron
Personification
This isn't awful.
Litotes
Oxymoron
Polysyndeton
Synechdoche
