Guess Me

1. Identify the literary device used in the following line:

"O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!"

• a) Hyperbole

• b) Metaphor

• c) Simile

• d) Personification

2. In the line “Parting is such sweet sorrow,” what literary device is used?

• a) Paradox

• b) Alliteration

• c) Oxymoron

• d) Apostrophe

3. Which literary device is evident in the line: “My bounty is as boundless as the sea.”

• a) Simile

• b) Metaphor

• c) Allusion

• d) Imagery

4. What literary device is used in the line: “Death lies on her like an untimely frost upon the sweetest flower of all the field.”

• a) Simile

• b) Hyperbole

• c) Metaphor

• d) Personification

5. In the line “A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life,” what literary device is evident?

• a) Allusion

• b) Foreshadowing

• c) Hyperbole

• d) Personification

6. What literary device is present in the line: “With love’s light wings did I o’er-perch these walls; for stony limits cannot hold love out.”

• a) Hyperbole

• b) Symbolism

• c) Personification

• d) Metaphor

7. The line “Juliet is the sun” is an example of which literary device?

• a) Simile

• b) Hyperbole

• c) Metaphor

• d) Imagery

8. In the line “O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!” what literary device is used?

• a) Paradox

• b) Simile

• c) Alliteration

• d) Oxymoron

9. Identify the device in the line: “Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs.”

• a) Metaphor

• b) Allusion

• c) Imagery

• d) Hyperbole

10. What literary device is used in the line: “These violent delights have violent ends.”

• a) Foreshadowing

• b) Paradox

• c) Irony

• d) Simile