WorksheetsLiterary Devices 1
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Every dead one has a name, only the names of the living make us falter.
Allusion
Metaphor
Simile
Hyperbole
I had to walk uphill 15 miles to go to school-both ways!
Allusion
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Symbolism
It’s Raining Men...
Paradox
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
I love him like a fat kid loves cake.
Anachronism
Simile
Metaphor
Euphemism
He hit me like a wrecking ball...
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
My pen walked away.
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Hyberbole
He’s pushing up daisies.
Metaphor
Euphemism
Paradox
Oxymoron
The lights are on, but nobody is home.
Malapropism
Foreshadowing
Hyperbole
Allusion
You are my kryptonite.
Synecdoche
Metaphor
Symbolism
Simile
I am a deeply superficial person.
Hyperbole
Epigraph
Oxymoron
Euphemism
Walking Dead
Oxymoron
Epigraph
Anachronism
Synecdoche
You’re my end and my beginning
Metaphor
Anachronism
Colloquialism
Paradox
You got that James Dean day dream look in your eye.
Allusion
Anachronism
Paradox
Repetition
I must be cruel to be kind.
Paradox
Allusion
Simile
Metaphor
Freedom is like religion to us.
Simile
Metaphor
Allusion
Euphemism
The movement is a rhythm to us.
Simile
Metaphor
Allusion
Paradox
The clouds raced around the mountain.
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
I have million things to do.
Hyperbole
Colloquialism
Foreshadowing
Anachronism
Time is a Thief.
Metaphor
Personification
Paradox
Hyperbole
He's like a fish out of water.
Metaphor
Simile
Euphemism
Idiom
