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Literary Devices

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

I am the repetition of the beginning consonant sounds in words

a)

Alliteration

b)

Imagery

c)

Simile

d)

Metaphor

2.

I create a picture in the reader’s mind

a)

Allieteration

b)

Imagery

c)

Simile

d)

Metaphor

3.

I am the comparison of two different things. Doesn’t use like or as.

a)

Alliteration

b)

Imagery

c)

Simile

d)

Metaphor

4.

I am a rhythmic pattern in poetry that is usually repeated.

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Meter

d)

Personification

5.

I am a type of sound device where sounds like BANG! POP! or POW!

a)

Imagery

b)

Personification

c)

Onomatopoeia

d)

Metaphor

6.

Giving things that are not human, the personalities or actions of humans

a)

SImile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Onomatopoeia

d)

Personification

7.

To repeat sounds, words, phrases, or whole lines in a poem

a)

Repetition

b)

Rhyme

c)

Onomatopoeia

d)

Alliteration

8.

Words that end in the same sound, end rhyme

a)

Rhyme

b)

Rhythm

c)

Personification

d)

Onomatiopoeia

9.

The pattern of rhymes

a)

Rhyme Scheme

b)

Rhythm

c)

Alliteration

d)

Personification

10.

The musical quality of a poem.

a)

Rhythm

b)

Rhyme Scheme

c)

Repetition

d)

Onomatopoeia

11.

A comparison of two unlike things using like or as

a)

Personification

b)

Simile

c)

Onomatopoeia

d)

Metaphor

12.

The message about life that the poem conveys

a)

Tone

b)

Mood

c)

Theme

d)

Imagery

13.

A division in a poem named for the number of lines it contains

a)

Rhythm

b)

Rhyme

c)

Stanza

d)

Rhyme Scheme

14.

The feelings the author creates using words

a)

Tone

b)

Mood

c)

Imagery

d)

Setting

15.

A deliberate exaggeration.

a)

Allusion

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Idiom

d)

Simile

16.

I am a saying or phrase that means something different than its literal meaning.

a)

Hyperbole

b)

Idiom

c)

Imagery

d)

Allusion

17.

The Feeling the reader experiences because of words in a text.

a)

Mood

b)

Tone

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Imagery

18.

An allusion is a reference, typically brief, to a person, place, thing, event, or other literary work with which the reader is familiar.

a)

Alliteration

b)

Personification

c)

Allusion

d)

Simile