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Literary Terms End of Year Quiz

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Tim's stomach is an endless pit.

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

point of view

d)

personification

2.

Rita is as cool as a cucumber under pressure.

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

personification

d)

pun

3.

Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Captain Crunch, Dunkin' Donuts

a)

onomatopoeia

b)

assonance

c)

anaphora

d)

alliteration

4.

"It's so fluffy I'M GONNA DIE!!!"

a)

paradox

b)

oxymoron

c)

hyperbole

d)

irony

5.

The sun smiled down upon me as my alarm clock squawked at me.

a)

personification

b)

idiom

c)

analogy

d)

rhyme

6.

"I'm visiting the Big Apple this summer!" The Big Apple is COMMONLY KNOWN as New York City.

a)

simile

b)

allusion

c)

assonance

d)

alliteration

7.

An apple can REPRESENT a teacher, a healthy lifestyle, a computer company, or New York City. Anything that stands for something else is a:

a)

allusion

b)

pun

c)

symbol

d)

synecdoche

8.

SPLASH! POW! BUZZ! ROAR!

a)

assonance

b)

alliteration

c)

pun

d)

onomatopoeia

9.

I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them Sam I am. I do not like them in a boat. I do not like them with a goat. I do not like them in a house. I do not like them with a mouse.

a)

free verse

b)

theme

c)

denotation

d)

rhyme

10.

Lazy Lazy Lazy Lazy Lazy Lazy Jane, she wants a drink of waters so she waits and waits and waits and waits and waits for it to rain.

a)

rhyme scheme

b)

theme

c)

repetition

d)

dialogue

11.

How many stanzas are in the poem?

One day they disappear

into their rooms.

Doors and lips shut

and we become strangers

in our own home.

---------------------------------------------

I pace the hall, hear whispers,

a code I knew but can't remember,

mouthed by mouths I taught to speak.

----------------------------------------------

Years later the door opens.

I see faces I once held,

open as sunflowers in my hands. I see

familiar skin now stretched on long bodies

that move past me

glowing almost like pearls.

a)

1

b)

2

c)

3

d)

0

12.

It's raining cats and dogs today!

a)

pun

b)

idiom

c)

irony

d)

simile

13.

Let's Taco 'Bout It is an example of:

a)

idiom

b)

pun

c)

irony

d)

oxymoron

14.

In Harry Potter, Harry hunted horcruxes to defeat Voldemort, not knowing all along that he was the last horcrux that needed to be destroyed. This is an example of:

a)

oxymoron

b)

pun

c)

metaphor

d)

irony

15.

What's the BEST example of a theme?

a)

Good and evil

b)

Some emotional wounds never heal.

c)

Romeo was too immature for love.

d)

Don't fall in love.

16.

A rose is a flower, but it can also mean love. The associated feelings of a word is called:

a)

connotation

b)

denotation

c)

simile

d)

euphemism

17.

Iwan’s sweaty gym clothes left a stale odor in the locker room; so they had to keep the windows open.

a)

hyperbole

b)

metaphor

c)

imagery

d)

analogy

18.

"Ahh! Get that poisonous snake away from me!" screamed Rita to Tim.

a)

monologue

b)

setting

c)

dialogue

d)

hyperbole

19.

EVERY breath you take

EVERY move you make

EVERY bond you break

EVERY step you take

I'll be watching you.

*These song lyrics are an example of:

a)

synecdoche

b)

pun

c)

onomatopoeia

d)

anaphora

20.

"I'm not bossy, I'm just outspoken!" When you state something in a nicer way, it's called:

a)

allusion

b)

personification

c)

euphemism

d)

connotation