Literary Technique Quiz

A phrase with opposing combinations

• Alliteration

• Synthesia

• Oxymoron

• Chiasmus

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

Comparison using like or as?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Oxymoron

• Anaphora

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza

• Synesthesia

• Polysyndeton

• Asyndeton

• Enjambment

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

“Kevin told a joke about butts that I found seriously funny."

• Assonance

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

Which of the following phrases represents an anaphora?

• Her heart was stabbed by grief, Her heart cradled in pain, Her heart was dead cold.

• Kanye’s brain was about to implode.

• She was so sick to the point where she threw up waterfalls of vomit.

• Write quickly and you will never write well, write well and you will soon write quickly.

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

“The house came to miss the shouting voices, the threats, the half-apologies, noisy reconciliations, the sobbing that followed.”

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Enjambment

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Choose the correct usage of a simile

• The blade of new bangs hangs over her red-brown eyes

• You can't order a poem like you order a taco.

• Boom! The thunder was crashing and deafening.

• Burning in the black of spring

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

the use of a word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in a sentence, to avoid repetition, such as do in I like it and so do they

• Simile

• Anaphora

• Metaphor

• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D