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WorksheetsLiterary Terms and Devices
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 11mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
My love is like a red, red rose.
a)
Allusion
b)
Simile
c)
Metaphor
d)
Personification
2.
Brian was a wall, bouncing every tennis ball back over the net
a)
Allusion
b)
Simile
c)
Metaphor
d)
Personification
3.
Snow speaks to the people; it’s falling above in the glooming sunlight. Its white, sparkling voice echoes as it falls through the air.
a)
Allusion
b)
Simile
c)
Metaphor
d)
Personification
4.
The baby was as snug as a bug in a rug.
a)
Allusion
b)
Simile
c)
Metaphor
d)
Personification
5.
In Lemony Snicket, most of the inhabitants of the island on which the Baudelaires find themselves in The End are characters from The Tempest, a play by William Shakespeare.
a)
Allusion
b)
Simile
c)
Metaphor
d)
Imagery
6.
Crunch! Crunch! Crunch! Joe’s boots broke the forest’s silence. A full moon peeked out from behind two clouds. Tree shadows illuminated the snow drifts in its shimmering light. Joe shivered as a cold gust of wind blew through his jacket.
a)
Simile
b)
Metaphor
c)
Imagery
d)
Irony
7.
“But my heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.”
-William Sharp
-William Sharp
a)
Allusion
b)
Simile
c)
Metaphor
d)
Irony
8.
An emerald is as green as grass,
A ruby red as blood;
A sapphire shines as blue as heaven;
A flint lies in the mud.
A ruby red as blood;
A sapphire shines as blue as heaven;
A flint lies in the mud.
a)
Allusion
b)
Simile
c)
Personification
d)
Foreshadowing
9.
This quiz is a piece of cake.
a)
Allusion
b)
Simile
c)
Metaphor
d)
Personification
10.
Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, sighing, through all her works, gave signs of woe.
- John Milton
- John Milton
a)
Simile
b)
Foreshadowing
c)
Personification
d)
Allusion
11.
Christy didn't like to spend money. She was no Scrooge, but she seldom purchased anything except the bare necessities.
a)
Allusion
b)
Simile
c)
Imagery
d)
Metaphor
12.
Fog
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
a)
Allusion
b)
Simile
c)
Personifcation
d)
Foreshadowing
13.
“Only the daisy trees were serene… they ignored the men and continued to rock the diamondbacks that slept in their arms. It took the river to persuade them that indeed the world was altered.”
a)
Allusion
b)
Simile
c)
Irony
d)
Personification
14.
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.
a)
Imagery
b)
Allusion
c)
Personification
d)
Irony
15.
The water beckoned invitingly to the hot swimmers.
a)
Allusion
b)
Personification
c)
Metaphor
d)
Irony
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