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Literary Devices 1

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Every dead one has a name, only the names of the living make us falter.

a)

Allusion

b)

Metaphor

c)

Simile

d)

Hyperbole

2.

I had to walk uphill 15 miles to go to school-both ways!

a)

Allusion

b)

Metaphor

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Symbolism

3.

It’s Raining Men...

a)

Paradox

b)

Personification

c)

Simile

d)

Metaphor

4.

I love him like a fat kid loves cake.

a)

Anachronism

b)

Simile

c)

Metaphor

d)

Euphemism

5.

He hit me like a wrecking ball...

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Personification

d)

Hyperbole

6.

My pen walked away.

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Personification

d)

Hyberbole

7.

He’s pushing up daisies.

a)

Metaphor

b)

Euphemism

c)

Paradox

d)

Oxymoron

8.

The lights are on, but nobody is home.

a)

Malapropism

b)

Foreshadowing

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Allusion

9.

You are my kryptonite.

a)

Synecdoche

b)

Metaphor

c)

Symbolism

d)

Simile

10.

I am a deeply superficial person.

a)

Hyperbole

b)

Epigraph

c)

Oxymoron

d)

Euphemism

11.

Walking Dead

a)

Oxymoron

b)

Epigraph

c)

Anachronism

d)

Synecdoche

12.

You’re my end and my beginning

a)

Metaphor

b)

Anachronism

c)

Colloquialism

d)

Paradox

13.

You got that James Dean day dream look in your eye.

a)

Allusion

b)

Anachronism

c)

Paradox

d)

Repetition

14.

I must be cruel to be kind.

a)

Paradox

b)

Allusion

c)

Simile

d)

Metaphor

15.

Freedom is like religion to us.

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Allusion

d)

Euphemism

16.

The movement is a rhythm to us.

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Allusion

d)

Paradox

17.

The clouds raced around the mountain.

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Personification

d)

Hyperbole

18.

I have million things to do.

a)

Hyperbole

b)

Colloquialism

c)

Foreshadowing

d)

Anachronism

19.

Time is a Thief.

a)

Metaphor

b)

Personification

c)

Paradox

d)

Hyperbole

20.

He's like a fish out of water.

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Euphemism

d)

Idiom