WorksheetsLiterary Devices
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 11mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
When an author gives an inanimate object human or living characteristics. For example: the trees danced in the wind.
a)
personification
b)
alliteration
c)
simile
d)
oxymoron
2.
An over-exaggeration. For example: I was standing in line forever.
a)
personification
b)
cliche
c)
metaphor
d)
hyperbole
3.
A comparison of two unlike things without using like or as.
He was a bear in the the goal.
He was a bear in the the goal.
a)
simlie
b)
paradox
c)
metaphor
d)
allusion
4.
Mark is as fast as a cheetah. This is an example of the following:
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
idiom
d)
analogy
5.
Fred ate five French fries on Friday.
a)
simile
b)
alliteration
c)
hyperbole
d)
cliche
6.
POW!
Bang!
Buzzzzzz....
Bang!
Buzzzzzz....
a)
alliteration
b)
personification
c)
Onomatopoeia
d)
assonance
7.
A reference to a well-known person, place, event or work (book, song or movie) that appears in another work
a)
allegory
b)
allusion
c)
analogy
d)
alliteration
8.
a word that represents a sound.
a)
onomatopoeia
b)
oxymoron
c)
personification
d)
euphemism
9.
What is alliteration?
a)
a word that mimics a sound
b)
repetition of consonant sounds
c)
using symbols to represent something
d)
Giving human-like traits to non-living objects
10.
"America is a melting pot" is an example of
a)
Metaphor
b)
Simile
c)
Foreshadowing
d)
Repetition
11.
"She is like a butterfly" is an example of...
a)
Metaphor
b)
Simile
c)
Assonance
d)
Alliteration
12.
Click the button. "Click" is an example of...
a)
Repetition
b)
Satire
c)
Onomatopoeia
d)
Symbolism
13.
"The scrumptious desserts were calling out my name" is an example of...
a)
simile
b)
foreshadowing
c)
personification
d)
symbolism
14.
Create your own literary device example. Be sure to write down what device you used after you write your example.
The devices you may choose from are: Personification, Allusion, Alliteration, Simile, Metaphor, Onomatopoeia, Hyperbole, Foreshadowing.
4 lines
15.
A whiff of the coffee aroma filled our noses. This is a good example of what literary device?
a)
Irony
b)
Personification
c)
Imagery
d)
Metaphor
16.
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.
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
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