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WorksheetsAnalyzing Literature through Literary Devices Used
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
The giant tree was ablazed with red, orange, and gold leaves. This is an example of ____________________
A. personification
B. metaphor
C. imagery
d. simile
The ball jumped out of the receiver's hands.
A. simile
B. hyperbole
C. metaphor
D. personification
The wind whistled through the trees during the storm.
A. personification
B. metaphor
C. simile
D. symbol
I was so tired after school, I slept for a mouth!
A. hyperbole
B. simile
C. metaphor
D. personification
5. The last day of school is like a day at the beach - easy and relaxing.
A. personification
B. symbolism
C. simile
D. hyperbole
BAM! The door shut behind me. This is an example of ______________
A. onomatopeia
B. simile
C. symbolism
D. personification
7. The city was a jungle is an example of ____________
A. alliteration
B. metaphor
C. simile
D. onomatopeia
8. The way the reader feels when reading a story is called ___________
A. tone
B. mood
C. setting
D. theme
Last night I dreamt about chickens
They were playing on my pillows
They were nesting in my head
They were walking in my room
They were lying on my bed
What does this poem use?
A. oxymoron
B. symbol
C. repetition
D. imagery
This excerpt appeals to which sense:
Down in the street little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn paper into spirals, and though the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue..
A. sound
B. smell
C. sight
D. touch
This excerpt appeals to which sense:
She went back to eating earth. The first time she did it almost out of curiosity, sure that the bad taste would be the best cure for the temptation.
A. hearing
B. sight
C. taste
D. touch
Treasure Island (an excerpt) by Robert Louis Stevenson
I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a hand-barrow – a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man, his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulder of his soiled blue coat, his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails, and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white. I remember him looking round the cover and whistling to himself as he did so, and then breaking out in that old sea-song that he sang so often afterwards.What does the IMAGERY used in the first paragraph tell the reader about the captain?
A. He is in need of first aid.
B. He is likely carrying treasure in his sea-chest.
C. He has grown frail and tired with old age.
D. He has had a rough and adventurous life.
The Eagle" by Alfred Lord Tennyson
He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands
Ring'd with the azure world he stands
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
Choose the literary device that is NOT used in this poem.
A. sight details
B. hearing details
C. touch details
D. personification
Which of these is an example of exaggeration (hyperbole)?
A. The leaf raced like a speedboat across the top of the water.
B. Harriet spends all day fixing her hair.
C. The clouds danced across the sky.
D. The grass was a soft, plush carpet.
What imagery does Tennyson use in this excerpt from the poem?
In the stormy east wind straining
The yellow words were waning
The broad stream in his banks complaning
Heavily the low sky raining
Over towered Camelot.
A. imagery of sight and touch
B. imagery of taste and touch
C. imagery of smell, taste, and touch
D. imagery of sight, touch, and sound
