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B.O.Y. Day 2 Diagnostic

Total questions: 45

Worksheet time: 21mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

“Tick, tock.” ― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

onomatopoeia

d)

allusion

2.

“Danny strolled to the town common, sat on one of the benches in Teenytown and took one of the bottles out of the bag, looking down on it like Hamlet with Yorick's skull” ― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

a)

hyperbole

b)

personification

c)

metaphor

d)

allusion

3.

”A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open”.-Frank Zappa

a)

onomatopoeia

b)

simile

c)

metaphor

d)

alliteration

4.

“I like to walk in the woods and see what Mother Nature is wearing.” - Flannery O'Connor, Good Country People

a)

hyperbole

b)

allusion

c)

personification

d)

idiom

5.

“It's a piece of cake.”

a)

hyperbole

b)

idiom

c)

allusion

d)

simile

6.

“I was quaking from head to foot, and could have hung my hat on my eyes, they stuck out so far.” - Mark Twain, Old Times on the Mississippi

a)

hyperbole

b)

personification

c)

allusion

d)

idiom

7.

”Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary,” - Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven"

a)

metaphor

b)

alliteration

c)

onomatopoeia

d)

allusion

8.

“Conscience is a man’s compass.” - Vincent Van Gogh

a)

simile

b)

alliteration

c)

metaphor

d)

idiom

9.

“ It’s raining cats and dogs.”

a)

personification

b)

idiom

c)

alliteration

d)

allusion

10.

“Hulga the whole while hollering like a half-slaughtered hog.” - Truman Capote, "Mojave"

a)

metaphor

b)

personification

c)

simile

d)

alliteration

11.

This coffee shop is an ice box!

a)

simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Alliteration

d)

personification

12.

I move fast like a cheetah on the Serengeti.

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Personification

d)

Hyperbole

13.

The sky misses the sun at night

a)

Personification

b)

Onomatopoeia

c)

Alliteration

d)

Repetition

14.

I've told you a million times to clean your room!

a)

Alliteration

b)

Personification

c)

metaphor

d)

Hyperbole

15.

The sea lashed out in anger at the ships, unwilling to tolerate another battle.

a)

hyperbole

b)

Alliteration

c)

Personification

d)

Repetition

16.

I can smell pizza from a mile away.

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

Hyperbole

d)

onomatopoeia

17.

The traffic noises argued long into the night and finally Carl went to sleep.

a)

Hyperbole

b)

Onomatopoeia

c)

metaphor

d)

Personification

18.

which one is “Simile”?

a)

Her head was spinning from all the new information.

b)

The crowd cheered when the champion hit the challenger with a chair.

c)

The bird’s chirp filled the empty night air.

d)

The fluffy pillows that mom bought were as soft as a cloud.

19.

Which one is “ Alliteration “?

a)

I told you million times not to touch that!

b)

He has a heart of stone.

c)

Watching that movie was like watching grass grow.

d)

Your friends will flip-flop fast when facing trouble.

20.

Which one has the same type of figurative language ?

a)

The radio suddenly stopped singing and stared at me.

b)

The classroom was zoo.

c)

Water plops into the pond.

d)

Becky's beagle barked and bayed, becoming bother some for Billy.

21.

“Cars come and go like frantic ants.

a)

personification

b)

Simile

c)

Metaphor

d)

Onomatopoeia

e)

Allusion

22.

“I tell her of my father’s great herd, and how they would graze each day, walking for miles, the sun in our bones, the grass whispering its shy music.

a)

personification

b)

Simile

c)

Metaphor

d)

Onomatopoeia

e)

Allusion

23.

“I hear the crunch of someone walking.”

a)

Personification

b)

Simile

c)

Metaphor

d)

Onomatopoeia

e)

Allusion

24.

It is so hot outside. I bet it is a million degrees!

a)

hyperbole

b)

Simile

c)

Metaphor

d)

Onomatopoeia

e)

Allusion

25.

I plant purple petunias in the park.

a)

hyperbole

b)

Simile

c)

Metaphor

d)

alliteration

e)

Allusion

26.
time and place the story takes place
Ex. Salinas River, 1930s; "A few miles south of Soledad."
a)
setting
b)
plot
c)
imagery
d)
exposition
27.
comparing two things using like or as
Ex. "You're like a kid Lennie."
a)
hyperbole
b)
irony
c)
metaphor
d)
simile
28.
language or way of speech of a particular region of the country
Ex. "It wasn't no good to pet."
a)
dialogue
b)
characterization
c)
communication
d)
dialect
29.
the author directly tells the reader what the character is like
Ex. "He stepped short, quick steps, of a fat legged man."
a)
indirect characterization
b)
pointed characterization
c)
direct characterization
d)
straight characterization
30.
the author gives clues about a character by describing what a character looks like, does, and says, as well as how other characters react to them
Ex. "Crooks scowled, but Lennie's disarming smile defeated him. Come on in and set a while."
a)
direct characterization
b)
indirect characterization
c)
forward characterization
d)
round characterization
31.
the author directly tells the reader what the character is like
Ex. "He stepped short, quick steps, of a fat legged man."
a)
indirect characterization
b)
pointed characterization
c)
forward characterization
d)
direct characterization
32.
the outcome of a situation is the opposite of what is expected
Ex. Crooks lets Lennie in his room.
a)
irony
b)
situational irony
c)
verbal irony
d)
foreshadowing
33.
a person says one thing and means another (sarcasm)
Ex. "Sure, said Crooks. And a manure pile under the window. Sure, it's swell."
a)
situational irony
b)
dialogue
c)
verbal irony
d)
dramatic irony
34.
the audience knows something that the characters do not know
Ex. When Lennie walks in Crooks's room. (Lennie does not know that he is unwanted in there.)
a)
situational irony
b)
dramatic irony
c)
drama
d)
verbal irony
35.
descriptive words that appeal to the five senses
Ex. "A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas river drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green."
a)
adjectives
b)
sensory words
c)
imagery
d)
verbs
36.
hints that something is going to happen in the story
Ex. George tells Lennie in the opening chapter that if he gets into trouble to go back and hide in the brush by the river.
a)
hinting
b)
teasing
c)
foreshadowing
d)
spoiler alerts
37.
characters, objects, or events that have an abstract, or figurative meaning (stands for something else)
Ex. George and Lennie's dream represents their freedom and wealth.
a)
images
b)
symbolism
c)
simile
d)
personification
38.
adding human characteristics to non-living objects
Ex. "the afternoon sun sliced through the cracks of barn walls"
a)
hyperbole
b)
symbolism
c)
imagery
d)
personification
39.
the main character
Ex. Lennie and George because they are the main people in the story.
a)
lead actor
b)
antagonist
c)
MVP
d)
protagonist
40.
opposing character to the main character
Ex. Curley/Curley's wife
a)
antagonist
b)
the opposition
c)
protagonist
d)
the bad guy
41.
struggle between opposing forces
Ex. Lennie vs. Curley; Lennie vs. George; Candy vs. himself; Ranch men vs. society
a)
fight
b)
feud
c)
conflict
d)
argument
42.
it gives the perspective from which a literary work is told.
a)
point of view
b)
literary lens
c)
background 
d)
author
43.
The narrator (the voice that is telling the story) is a character who is part of the action and uses the first-person pronouns I, me, and my. The reader sees everything through this character's eyes.
a)
second person point of view
b)
third person point of view
c)
first person point of view
d)
fourth person point of view
44.
The narrator is someone outside the action, rather than a character.
a)
first person point of view
b)
second person point of view
c)
third person point of view
d)
third person onmniscient
45.
the narrator is an all-knowing observer who can relate what every character thinks and feels
a)
omniscient third person point of view
b)
third person point of view
c)
second person point of view
d)
first person point of view