Evaluation in Literary Devices

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Direction: Determine the literary and sound devices utilized in each number by carefully reading each

question and each choice. In your notebook, write the letter of the best answer.

1.The wicked witch of the west lives in a castle. This is an example of which literary device?

a) Simile
b) Metaphor
c) Allliteration
d) Personification

2. The assignment was a breeze. This is an example of which literary device?

a) Simile
b) Metaphor
c) Alliteration
d) Personification

3. A comparison using like or as.

a) Simile
b) Metaphor
c) Personification
d) Alliteration

4. The stars danced in the sky. This is an example of which literary device?

a) Alliteration
b) Simile
c) Metaphor
d) Personification

5. The words below are an example of what type of literary device?

Boom! Zoom! Pow!

a) Simile
b) Onomatopeia
c) Metaphor
d) Personification

6. The boy is as tall as a tree. This is an example of which literary device?

a) Personification
b) Metaphor
c) Simile
d) Assonance

7. When an author gives an inanimate object human or living characteristics. For example: the trees
danced in the wind.

a) personification
b) alliteration
c) simile
d) oxymoron

8. A comparison of two unlike things without using like or as. He was a bear in the the goal.

a) simlie
b) paradox
c) metaphor
d) allusion

9. Mark is as fast as a cheetah. This is an example of the following:

a) simile
b) metaphor
c) idiom
d) analogy

10. Fred ate five French fries on Friday.

a) simile
b) alliteration
c) hyperbole
d) cliché

11. a word that represents a sound.

a) onomatopoeia
b) oxymoron
c) personification
d) euphemism

12. Giving human traits and qualities to non-human things is what?

a) Irony
b) Personification
c) Alliteration
d) Metaphor

13. Words such as "crack","splat", and "buzz" are examples of what?

a) metaphor
b) onomatopoeia
c) simile
d) personification

14. The trees invited us to come and play. This is an example of what?

a) Metaphor
b) Alliteration
c) Assonance
d) Personification

15. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter
Piper picked is an example of what literary devices?
a) Assonance
b) Rhyme
c) Alliteration
d) Repetition

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