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Literary Terms Quiz #7A

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

"When it comes, the landscape listens, / Shadows hold their breath," (Emily Dickinson, "There's a certain slant of light")

a)

Anaphora

b)

Hendiadys

c)

Oxymoron

d)

Personification

e)

Simile

2.

"The wind stood up and gave a shout. He whistled on his two fingers." (James Stephens, "The Wind")

a)

Aposiopesis

b)

Asyndeton

c)

Chiasmus

d)

Litotes

e)

Personification

3.

"Death lays his icy hand on kings." (James Shirley, "The Glories of Our Blood and State.")

a)

Aposiopesis

b)

Litotes

c)

Oxymoron

d)

Personification

4.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

a)

Asyndeton

b)

Chiasmus

c)

Oxymoron

d)

Zeugma

5.

"... 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)

a)

Alliteration

b)

Zeugma

c)

Oxymoron

d)

Tmesis

6.

The sun shone with light, heat, power.

a)

Asyndeton

b)

Metaphor

c)

Hendiadys

d)

Tmesis

7.

"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)

a)

Anaphora

b)

Hendiadys

c)

Personification

d)

Synechdoche

8.

She took his hand and his heart.

a)

Chiasmus

b)

Polysyndeton

c)

Personification

d)

Zeugma

9.

It sure is nice and cool today.

a)

Apostrophe

b)

Hendiadys

c)

Oxymoron

d)

Personification

10.

This isn't awful.

a)

Litotes

b)

Oxymoron

c)

Polysyndeton

d)

Synechdoche