WorksheetsLiterary Elements in "the Black Cat"
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
What literary device is used in the following line:
“… have terrified — have tortured — have destroyed …”?
alliteration
anaphora
onomatopoeia
allusion
What literary device is used in the following line:
“… more calm, more logical, …”?
alliteration
onomatopoeia
allusion
anaphora
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.]
allusion
onomatopoeia
metaphor
simile
What literary device is used in the following line:
“… my pet and playmate.”?
onomatopoeia
alliteration
metaphor
simile
What literary device is used in the following line:“… more moody, more irritable, more regardless …”?
anaphora
simile
metaphor
onomatopoeia
What literary device is used in the following line: “I blush, I burn, I shudder …”?
onomatopoeia
metaphor
simile
alliteration
What literary device is used in the following line: “… half of horror, half of remorse …”?
metaphor
alliteration
simile
personification
What literary device is used in the following line:“… in the teeth of our best judgment …”?
metaphor
simile
onomatopoeia
allusion
What literary device is used in the following line: “to vex itself — to offer violence — to do wrong …”?
allusion
metaphor
anaphora
personification
What literary device is used in the following line: “… a deadly sin that would jeoparodise (sic) my immortal soul …”?
anaphora
simile
allusion
alliteration
What literary device is used in the following line: “The Most Merciful and the Most Terrible God.”?
simile
metaphor
personification
anaphora
What literary device is used in the following line: “… my wonder and my terror …”?
anaphora
onomatopoeia
simile
personification
What literary device is used in the following line: “… to flee silently from its odious presence, as from the breath of a pestilence.”
simile
anaphora
onomatopoeia
allusion
What literary device is used in the following line: “… of Horror and of Crime—of Agony and of Death!”?
onomatopoeia
simile
metaphor
anaphora
What literary device is used in the following line: “… for me, a man, fashioned in the image of the High God.”? (Genesis 1:27)
simile
allusion
metaphor
anaphora
What literary device is used in the following line: “… of all things and of all mankind;”?
anaphora
metaphor
allusion
onomatopoeia
What literary device is used in the following line: “But may God shield and deliver me from the fangs of the Arch-Fiend!”? (Satan)
allusion
onomatopoeia
simile
alliteration
What literary device is used in the following line: “… I rapped heavily, with a cane which I held in my hand …”?
anaphora
alliteration
allusion
metaphor
What literary device is used in the following line: “… sunk in silence …”?
simile
alliteration
onomatopoeia
metaphor
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.”
alliteration
simile
allusion
metaphor
