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Literary Devices

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

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Class
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1.

What does personification mean?

a)

A figure of speech that uses the words like or as.

b)

the attribution of a human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

c)

When two objects are compared directly

d)

A figure of speech in which a natural force is portrayed or addressed as if a wild animal.

2.

What is a Simile?

a)

A figure of speech comparing two natural things.

b)

A figure of speech comparing two or more unlike things

c)

A thing that represents or stands for something else.

d)

A figure of speech comparing two unlike things linked by the words using the words “like” and “as”.

3.

What example of a literary device am I?


Forgiveness free of evil done

a)

Personification

b)

Alliteration

c)

Simile

d)

Rhyming

4.

Which of the following is NOT a simile?

a)

At exam time, the high school student was as busy as a bee.

b)

The children were flowers grown in concrete gardens.

c)

He is as funny as a monkey.

d)

Watching the show was like watching grass grow.

5.

“Love is a fruit in season at all times and in reach of every hand.”

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Rhyming

d)

Personification

6.

Poetry that does not follow a set pattern or form is called as a --------------------------------

a)

Metaphor

b)

Free Verse

c)

Alliteration

d)

Complete Verse

7.

A line or lines that are repeated in a poem is ----------------------

a)

repetition

b)

alliteration

c)

stanza

d)

rhyme

8.

Comparing two unlike things NOT using "like" or "as"

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Alliteratioin

d)

Personification

9.

All the tongue twisters are an example of--------------------

a)

Metaphor

b)

Alliteration

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Personification

10.

What is the arrangement of rhyme at the end of a line of poetry?

a)

Personification

b)

Rhyme scheme

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Alliteration