Pre-Test Literary Devices

Determine what literary or rhetorical device was used in the given line.

"Man proposes, God disposes."

• Metonymy

• Antithesis

• Metaphor

• Personification

Determine what literary or rhetorical device used in the line.

"Her love life is an open secret in the village."

• Oxymoron

• Antithesis

• Metaphor

• Assonance

a person says one thing and means another (sarcasm)
Ex. "Sure, said Crooks. And a manure pile under the window. Sure, it's swell."

• situational irony
• dialogue
• verbal irony
• dramatic irony

Which of the following is an example of repetition?

• CRASH!

• The bright red cardinal flew majestically over the snow-peaked mountain.

• I recall the time when Lincoln was president, before slavery was ended, before the Civil War.

• I think I can, I think I can, I think I can.

Misty mountains sing and beckon

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration

Literary devices are tools and techniques authors use to__________ the reader.

• confuse

• engage

• inform

• persuade

the repetition of sounds at the beginning of words is called

• allegory
• consonance
• assonance
• alliteration

John's suggestion was just a Band-Aid for the problem

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

time and place the story takes place
Ex. Salinas River, 1930s; "A few miles south of Soledad."

• setting
• plot
• imagery
• exposition

The plot goes ahead of time; meaning a scene that interrupts and takes the narrative forward in time from the current time in the stoty.

• Flashback

• Flash-forward

• Juxtaposition

• Stream of Conciousness