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- 1. Multiple Choice
"An brief and often indirect reference to a significant figure, place or event in poetry"
What device is this?
Oxymoron
Allusion
Anaphora
Assonance
- 2. Multiple Choice
"water plops into pond
splish-splash downhill
warbling magpies in tree
trilling, melodic thrill"
What main device do we see at work in this stanza?
Synecdoche
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Hyperbole
- 3. Multiple Choice
“No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him.” (Dickens, A Christmas Carol)
What sound effect is in use in this line?
personification
allusion
metaphor
alliteration
- 4. Multiple Choice
"Life is a broken-winged bird" is an example of
metaphor
alliteration
simile
paradox
- 5. Multiple Choice
Read the following statements and decide what device is being used.
Charlie gazed hopelessly at the endless pile of bills stretching across the counter.
Old Mr. Johnson has been teaching here since the Stone Age.
Irony
Synechdoche
Hyperbole
Oxymoron
- 6. Multiple Choice
“The sun smiled at me” is an example of:
metaphor
hyperbole
personification
assonance
- 7. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is not an example of an allusion?
his wife was his Achille's heel
he lies so much, I'm surprised his nose doesn't grow like Pinnochio's
she transformed her backyard to look like the Garden of Eden.
we'll miss him so much because he was the best dog ever.
- 8. Multiple Choice
A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated.
What device is this?
Metonymy
Synecdoche
- 9. Multiple Choice
A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa.
Which device is this?
Metonymy
Synecdoche
- 10. Multiple Choice
"We must wait to hear from The Crown until we make any further decisions."
What device is this?
Metonymy
Synecdoche
- 11. Multiple Choice
"He has many mouths to feed."
What device is this?
Metonymy
Synecdoche
- 12. Multiple Choice
"The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls. . ."
What sound device is this?
Sibilance
Alliteration
Assonance
Consonance
- 13. Multiple Choice
"It bent in a slant against the weight"
What sound device is this?
Alliteration
Consonance
Sibilance
Assonance
- 14. Multiple Choice
"Don't be such a Scrooge!"
What is being alluded to this line?
A character from Dickens' Christmas Carol who was very stingy with money
A character from Lord of the Rings who was very jealous
A character from Star Wars who was very lazy
- 15. Multiple Choice
"Don't be such a Scrooge!"
What is being suggested by this allusion?
"Don't be so jealous"
"Don't be so lazy"
"Don't be so stingy"
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