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Literary Devices

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Extreme exaggeration
a)
Hyperbole
b)
Understatement
c)
Verbal irony
d)
Dramatic irony
2.

What literary device is used here?


"You don't have the balls!"

a)

Denotation

b)

Metaphor

c)

Personification

d)

Connotation

3.

What literary device is used in this lyric?


That you were Romeo, you were throwin' pebbles

And my daddy said, "Stay away from Juliet"

And I was cryin' on the staircase

Beggin' you, "Please don't go, " and I said


Romeo, take me somewhere we can be alone

I'll be waiting, all there's left to do is run

You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess

It's a love story, baby, just say, "Yes".

a)

Allegory

b)

Allusion

c)

Connotation

d)

Simile

4.

The meaning of beautiful is about pleasing the senses or mind aesthetically.


What literary device is used here?

a)

Connotation

b)

Dictionary

c)

Definition

d)

Denotation

5.

What literary device is used here?


Eve helped Wall-E to try to save the abandoned Earth.

(Movie: Wall-E)

a)

Allusion

b)

Allegory

c)

Symbolism

d)

Character

6.

El Salvador's flag can be noted as a/an...

a)

simile

b)

paradox

c)

anthropomorphism

d)

symbol

7.

The sun glows brightly in the sky.


What literary device is used here?

a)

Theme

b)

Symbolism

c)

Imagery

d)

Allegory

8.
This type of figurative language compares two unlike things using like or as.
a)
metaphor
b)
hyperbole
c)
simile
d)
stanza
9.
Giving human traits and qualities to non-human things is what?
a)
Irony
b)
Personification
c)
Alliteration
d)
Metaphor
10.

It rained on a couple's wedding day.

a)

irony

b)

not irony, just unfortunate