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Literary Device Practice

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

He was as brave as a lion.

a)

Alliteration

b)

Simile

c)

Symbolism

d)

Oxymoron

2.

Just before he was about to ask her out, he got cold feet.

a)

Simile

b)

Assonance

c)

Idiom

d)

Personification

3.

Sheep should sleep in a shed.

a)

Alliteration

b)

Imagery

c)

Assonance

d)

Simile

4.

The words hesitated to escape his mouth.

a)

Simile

b)

Motif

c)

Pun

d)

Personification

5.

The tornado ran through town without a care.

a)

Pun

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Personification

d)

Irony

6.

I went to a seafood disco last week and pulled a mussel.

a)

Allusion

b)

Oxymoron

c)

Paradox

d)

Pun

7.

If you keep lying, your nose is going to grow a few more inches.

a)

Pun

b)

Allusion

c)

Irony

d)

Idiom

8.

She wrote a lengthy Facebook status ranting about how everyone should delete their accounts because people are too addicted to social media.

a)

Symbolsim

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Irony

d)

Allusion

9.

At night, the highway lay strewn across the city like a velvet ribbon amongst jewels.

a)

Symbolism

b)

Alliteration

c)

Simile

d)

Personification

10.

My science teacher is older than the hills.

a)

Symbolism

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Pun

d)

Idiom