Worksheetsliterary devices
Total questions: 34
Worksheet time: 6hrs 40mins
Which of the following is an example of a metaphor?
The water glistened like a star in the night.
The snow was a white blanket on the normally green grass.
Her stare was cold as ice.
The dove represents peace on earth.
Which of the following is an example of imagery?
Playing sports is a lot of fun.
The boy bounced the ball.
The young boy excitedly ran to the ball.
The ball was a deep red, like that of a fire truck, glistening in the bright sun.
Which of the following is an example of a simile?
Her hair shined like the sun.
The snowflakes danced in the wind.
Her hair was a flowing river.
The delicious ice cream made her jump for joy.
Which of the following is NOT an example of irony?
A marriage counselor files for divorce
A fire station burned down
An old man has a heart attack
Someone posts on Facebook about how dumb Facebook is
Which of the following is an example of alliteration?
BOOM!
The soda can exploded in my hand like a rocket ship going into space.
Her skin was as soft as a baby's.
The purple pants were perfect on the professor.
Which of the following is an example of allusion?
He was acting like Hitler, I was nervous we were about to have a 3rd World War.
A little lad listened to the lisping lizard.
CRASH!
He cried like a baby.
Which of the following is an example of repetition?
CRASH!
The bright red cardinal flew majestically over the snow-peaked mountain.
I recall the time when Lincoln was president, before slavery was ended, before the Civil War.
I think I can, I think I can, I think I can.
Which of the following is an example of personification?
The wind howled in the dark night sky.
The trees were a beautiful color, like the bright orange of sunset.
Her hair was dark as night.
His mother yelled at him like a banshee.
Which of the following is correct?
Foreshadowing - when an author goes back in time to describe an event / Flashback -when an author gives clues as to what will happen
Foreshadowing - giving human-like traits to non-human things / Flashback - when an author gives clues as to what will happen
Foreshadowing - when an author gives clues as to what will happen / Flashback - comparison of two unlike things using like or as
Foreshadowing - when an author gives clues as to what will happen / Flashback - when an author goes back in time to describe an event
Complete this sentence to make it IRONIC: The shoemaker's children have no (a)
Ex. "You're like a kid Lennie."
Ex. Crooks lets Lennie in his room.
Ex. "Sure, said Crooks. And a manure pile under the window. Sure, it's swell."
Ex. When Lennie walks in Crooks's room. (Lennie does not know that he is unwanted in there.)
Ex. "A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas river drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green."
Ex. George tells Lennie in the opening chapter that if he gets into trouble to go back and hide in the brush by the river.
Ex. George and Lennie's dream represents their freedom and wealth.
Ex. "the afternoon sun sliced through the cracks of barn walls"
Ex. Lennie and George because they are the main people in the story.
Ex. Curley/Curley's wife
Ex. Lennie vs. Curley; Lennie vs. George; Candy vs. himself; Ranch men vs. society
-William Sharp
A ruby red as blood;
A sapphire shines as blue as heaven;
A flint lies in the mud.
