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Literary Elements in "the Black Cat"

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What literary device is used in the following line:

“… have terrified — have tortured — have destroyed …”?

a)

alliteration

b)

anaphora

c)

onomatopoeia

d)

allusion

2.

What literary device is used in the following line:

“… more calm, more logical, …”?

a)

alliteration

b)

onomatopoeia

c)

allusion

d)

anaphora

3.

What literary device is used in the following line: “Pluto — this was the cat’s name —”? [Pluto is the Roman god of the Underworld, known as Hades in Greek mythology.]

a)

allusion

b)

onomatopoeia

c)

metaphor

d)

simile

4.

What literary device is used in the following line:

“… my pet and playmate.”?

a)

onomatopoeia

b)

alliteration

c)

metaphor

d)

simile

5.

What literary device is used in the following line:“… more moody, more irritable, more regardless …”?

a)

anaphora

b)

simile

c)

metaphor

d)

onomatopoeia

6.

What literary device is used in the following line: “I blush, I burn, I shudder …”?

a)

onomatopoeia

b)

metaphor

c)

simile

d)

alliteration

7.

What literary device is used in the following line: “… half of horror, half of remorse …”?

a)

metaphor

b)

alliteration

c)

simile

d)

personification

8.

What literary device is used in the following line:“… in the teeth of our best judgment …”?

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

onomatopoeia

d)

allusion

9.

What literary device is used in the following line: “to vex itself — to offer violence — to do wrong …”?

a)

allusion

b)

metaphor

c)

anaphora

d)

personification

10.

What literary device is used in the following line: “… a deadly sin that would jeoparodise (sic) my immortal soul …”?

a)

anaphora

b)

simile

c)

allusion

d)

alliteration

11.

What literary device is used in the following line: “The Most Merciful and the Most Terrible God.”?

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

personification

d)

anaphora

12.

What literary device is used in the following line: “… my wonder and my terror …”?

a)

anaphora

b)

onomatopoeia

c)

simile

d)

personification

13.

What literary device is used in the following line: “… to flee silently from its odious presence, as from the breath of a pestilence.”

a)

simile

b)

anaphora

c)

onomatopoeia

d)

allusion

14.

What literary device is used in the following line: “… of Horror and of Crime—of Agony and of Death!”?

a)

onomatopoeia

b)

simile

c)

metaphor

d)

anaphora

15.

What literary device is used in the following line: “… for me, a man, fashioned in the image of the High God.”? (Genesis 1:27)

a)

simile

b)

allusion

c)

metaphor

d)

anaphora

16.

What literary device is used in the following line: “… of all things and of all mankind;”?

a)

anaphora

b)

metaphor

c)

allusion

d)

onomatopoeia

17.

What literary device is used in the following line: “But may God shield and deliver me from the fangs of the Arch-Fiend!”? (Satan)

a)

allusion

b)

onomatopoeia

c)

simile

d)

alliteration

18.

What literary device is used in the following line: “… I rapped heavily, with a cane which I held in my hand …”?

a)

anaphora

b)

alliteration

c)

allusion

d)

metaphor

19.

What literary device is used in the following line: “… sunk in silence …”?

a)

simile

b)

alliteration

c)

onomatopoeia

d)

metaphor

20.

What literary device is used in the following line: “… a howl—a wailing shriek, half of horror and half of triumph, consigned me to the hangman.”

a)

alliteration

b)

simile

c)

allusion

d)

metaphor