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Literary Devices

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

This figure of speech uses exaggeration to make its point.

a)

Simile

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Personification

d)

Alliteration

2.

Which of the following is an example of Simile?

a)

My hand is as cold as snow.

b)

Hiss, slurp, hush, scream--MOM!

c)

The shirt said, "Wear Me!"

d)

Hopping hens shop for shoes

3.

Which of the following is an example of metaphor?

a)

My hand is as cold as snow.

b)

The glasses smiled at me.

c)

My life is a dream.

d)

Snow is like the sun.

4.

Which of the following is an example of alliteration?

a)

The TV laughed at the desk

b)

Calculating computers catch cats.

c)

Pictures are captured people.

d)

Crash, bang, boom goes the lion.

5.

"My dad will kill me when he comes home."

What literary device was used in the sentence?

a)

Simile

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Personification

d)

Alliteration

6.

"The moon played hide and seek with the clouds."

What literary device was used in the sentence?

a)

Simile

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Personification

d)

Alliteration

7.

"Her head is in the clouds."

What does it mean?

a)

She is not paying attention.

b)

She is flying.

c)

She is floating in the clouds.

8.

This figure of speech that compares two things, using the words as/like.

a)

Simile

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Personification

d)

Alliteration

9.

This figure of speech that starts with the same alphabet/sound.

a)

Simile

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Personification

d)

Alliteration

10.

This figure of speech that gives animals or objects human characteristics.

a)

Simile

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Personification

d)

Alliteration

11.
A scene in a movie or novel set in a time earlier than the main story is what?
a)
flashback
b)
imagery
c)
alliteration
d)
onomatpoeia
12.
Hints or clues used by the author to tell what will happen later in the book is a device known as:
a)
flashback
b)
simile
c)
mood
d)
foreshadowing
13.
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
14.
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
15.
opposing character to the main character
Ex. Curley/Curley's wife
a)
antagonist
b)
the opposition
c)
protagonist
d)
the bad guy
16.
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
17.
it gives the perspective from which a literary work is told.
a)
point of view
b)
literary lens
c)
background 
d)
author
18.
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
19.
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
20.
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