WorksheetsLiterary Terms End of Year Quiz
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Tim's stomach is an endless pit.
simile
metaphor
point of view
personification
Rita is as cool as a cucumber under pressure.
simile
metaphor
personification
pun
Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Captain Crunch, Dunkin' Donuts
onomatopoeia
assonance
anaphora
alliteration
"It's so fluffy I'M GONNA DIE!!!"
paradox
oxymoron
hyperbole
irony
The sun smiled down upon me as my alarm clock squawked at me.
personification
idiom
analogy
rhyme
"I'm visiting the Big Apple this summer!" The Big Apple is COMMONLY KNOWN as New York City.
simile
allusion
assonance
alliteration
An apple can REPRESENT a teacher, a healthy lifestyle, a computer company, or New York City. Anything that stands for something else is a:
allusion
pun
symbol
synecdoche
SPLASH! POW! BUZZ! ROAR!
assonance
alliteration
pun
onomatopoeia
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.
free verse
theme
denotation
rhyme
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.
rhyme scheme
theme
repetition
dialogue
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.
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I pace the hall, hear whispers,
a code I knew but can't remember,
mouthed by mouths I taught to speak.
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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.
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2
3
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It's raining cats and dogs today!
pun
idiom
irony
simile
Let's Taco 'Bout It is an example of:
idiom
pun
irony
oxymoron
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:
oxymoron
pun
metaphor
irony
What's the BEST example of a theme?
Good and evil
Some emotional wounds never heal.
Romeo was too immature for love.
Don't fall in love.
A rose is a flower, but it can also mean love. The associated feelings of a word is called:
connotation
denotation
simile
euphemism
Iwan’s sweaty gym clothes left a stale odor in the locker room; so they had to keep the windows open.
hyperbole
metaphor
imagery
analogy
"Ahh! Get that poisonous snake away from me!" screamed Rita to Tim.
monologue
setting
dialogue
hyperbole
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:
synecdoche
pun
onomatopoeia
anaphora
"I'm not bossy, I'm just outspoken!" When you state something in a nicer way, it's called:
allusion
personification
euphemism
connotation
