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Literary Device review 8

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

"The Candor wears a black suit with white tie-Candor standard uniform. Their faction values honesty and sees the truth as black and white, so that is what they wear" (Roth).

a)

simile

b)

personification

c)

symbolism

d)

hyperbole

2.

"I take a bite of stew to show I don't really care, but it's like glue in my mouth and takes a lot of effort to swallow it" (Collins 161).

a)

allusion

b)

simile

c)

metaphor

d)

alliteration

3.

“Love and war are two different battlefields” (Brown).

a)

simile

b)

onomatopoeia

c)

personification

d)

metaphor

4.

"My injuries are screaming now" (Lu).

a)

metaphor

b)

personification

c)

allusion

d)

foreshadowing

5.

"Instead I get the distinct impression that my heart will burst out of my chest any minute now, and I grab his arm to steady myself as I walk up the front steps" (Roth).

a)

allusion

b)

metaphor

c)

hyperbole

d)

simile

6.

"I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war" (Brown).

a)

foreshadowing

b)

onomatopoeia

c)

metaphor

d)

personification

7.

"In the past four days I faced four fears" (Roth).

a)

allusion

b)

personification

c)

irony

d)

alliteration

8.

After having just dropped your bag into a puddle, you claim, "This is just wonderful."

a)

simile

b)

irony

c)

onomatopoeia

d)

foreshadowing

9.

Why do you have to be such a Scrooge?

a)

allusion

b)

irony

c)

onomatopoeia

d)

symbolism

10.

"Suddenly I hear a pop and a few shrieks, and in the next instant they release me" (Lu 109).

a)

hyperbole

b)

onomatopoeia

c)

symbolism

d)

alliteration