GMAS Review - Literary Devices Quiz

What is alliteration?

• Language that uses exaggeration

• The repetition of beginning sounds in a group of words

• Words that imitate sounds

• Language that gives human qualities to objects or animals

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is hyperbole?

• Language that uses exaggeration

• The repetition of beginning sounds in a group of words

• Words that imitate sounds

• Comparing two unlike things by saying one is the other

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is onomatopoeia?

• Language that gives human qualities to objects or animals

• Comparing two unlike things by saying one is the other

• Words that imitate sounds

• A common phrase or expression that has a figurative meaning

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is personification?

• Words that imitate sounds

• Language that uses exaggeration

• Language that gives human qualities to objects or animals

• Comparing two unlike things by saying one is the other

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

What is a metaphor?

• A common phrase or expression that has a figurative meaning

• Language that gives human qualities to objects or animals

• Comparing two unlike things by saying one is the other

• The repetition of beginning sounds in a group of words

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is a simile?

• Comparing two unlike things by saying one is the other

• Comparing two unlike things by using "like" or "as"

• Words that imitate sounds

• Language that uses exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is an idiom?

• Words that imitate sounds

• Language that gives human qualities to objects or animals

• Comparing two unlike things by saying one is the other

• A common phrase or expression that has a figurative meaning

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

What literary device is used in the lines "But the Raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour."?

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What does the Raven symbolize in the lines "And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;"?

• Hope and guidance

• Death and sorrow

• Joy and happiness

• Love and affection

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

What is being compared to the Raven's speech in the simile "as if his soul in that one word he did outpour."?

• The rustling of the curtains

• The sound of the wind

• The speaker's heartbeat

• The silence of the room

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5