WorksheetsLiterary Devices Review
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 18mins
The time period and place/location where a story takes place. This can also
include historical context and/or descriptions of a location.
Characterization
Setting
Simile
Metaphor
The struggle between two opposing forces or a problem that must be solved in the
story.
Characterization
Setting
Conflict
Mood
Giving human characteristics or abilities to nonhuman things.
Characterization
Setting
Tone
Personification
How a text makes the READER feel
Imagery
Tone
Mood
Simile
The author's attitude or feeling about the topic being written about
Mood
Tone
Imagery
Personificaiton
A comparison using the words like or as
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Characterization
Making a comparison without using like or as
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Indirect characterization
the use of descriptive language to appeal to one or more of the reader’s senses
(sound, touch, taste, smell or sight).
Mood
Tone
Imagery
Personification
What is "My love is like a red, red rose," an example of?
Simile
Metaphor
Characterization
Conflict
What is "Snow speaks to the people; it’s falling above in the glooming sunlight. Its white, sparkling voice echoes as it falls through the air." an example of?
Personification
Simile
Direct Characterization
Conflict
What is "I smelled the warm, sweet, all-pervasive smell of silage, as well as the sour dirty laundry spilling over the basket in the hall. I could pick out the acrid smell of Claire’s drenched diaper, her sweaty feet, and her hair crusted with sand," an example of?
Metaphor
Simile
Imagery
Characterization
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.
In "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian," Junior's struggle to find acceptance and belonging in two different communities is an example of...
Indirect Characterization
Direct Characterization
Conflict
Mood
The characterization of John in, "John snapped at the man without warning," is an example of
Direct characterization
Indirect characterization
Personification
Conflict
Which literary device is shown in the lyric: "A tornado flew around my room before you came excuse the mess it made, it usually doesn't rain.." (Ocean).
Simile
Conflict
Metaphor
Imagery
What is when words that start with the same sound (not just the same letter) are used repeatedly in a phrase or sentence.
Repetition
Metaphor
Alliteration
Hyperbole
What literary device is shown in the lyric: "let it be, whisper words of wisdom..." (Beatles)
Repetition
Alliteration
Simile
Metaphor
My feet are killing me is an example of...
Metaphor
Imagery
Hyperbole
Simile
This literary device means its an exaggeration..
Alliteration
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Personification
What literary device is shown in the lyric, "Sit down, be humble, sit down, be humble, sit down, be humble" (Lamar).
Hyperbole
Repetition
Imagery
Personification
In Montana 1948, Frank is described by David as handsome this is an example of...
Indirect characterization
Direct Characterization
Personification
Hyperbole
"Lightning danced across the sky," is an example of..
simile
metaphor
personification
imagery
My head is pounding like a drum is an example of..
Simile
Metaphor
Characterization
Imagery
Peter Piped Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers is an example of..
Imagery
Characterization
Metaphor
Alliteration
