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WorksheetsLiterary Device Practice
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 20mins
He was as brave as a lion.
Alliteration
Simile
Symbolism
Oxymoron
Just before he was about to ask her out, he got cold feet.
Simile
Assonance
Idiom
Personification
Sheep should sleep in a shed.
Alliteration
Imagery
Assonance
Simile
The words hesitated to escape his mouth.
Simile
Motif
Pun
Personification
The tornado ran through town without a care.
Pun
Hyperbole
Personification
Irony
I went to a seafood disco last week and pulled a mussel.
Allusion
Oxymoron
Paradox
Pun
If you keep lying, your nose is going to grow a few more inches.
Pun
Allusion
Irony
Idiom
She wrote a lengthy Facebook status ranting about how everyone should delete their accounts because people are too addicted to social media.
Symbolsim
Hyperbole
Irony
Allusion
At night, the highway lay strewn across the city like a velvet ribbon amongst jewels.
Symbolism
Alliteration
Simile
Personification
My science teacher is older than the hills.
Symbolism
Hyperbole
Pun
Idiom
