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I spy...Literary Techniques!

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

allusion

d)

onomatopoeia

e)

Uh, it's a social media app that the kids are using these days, not a literary technique.

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)

allusion

c)

idiom

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)

allusion

c)

personification

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.

“Her own death was what she should be concentrating on. She could hear its hooves clacking on the roof, could see the cloaked figure on horseback" - Toni Morrison, A Mercy

a)

personification

b)

simile

c)

metaphor

d)

allusion

12.

"What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up / like a raisin in the sun?" - Langston Hughes "Harlem"

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

idiom

d)

personification

13.

"They sinned a lot, they sinned against each other, and they sinned against the legends they knew. And so the golden carp sent them a prophecy. He said that the sins of the people would weigh so heavy upon the land that in the end the whole town would collapse and be swallowed by water" - Rudolfo Anaya, Bless Me, Ultima

a)

hyperbole

b)

metaphor

c)

simile

d)

personification