3-4 Literary Device Quiz 1

What is the main literary device used in the lines below? "After midnight, the tired astronaut surveys her chrometop kitchentop"

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

What is the main literary device used in the lines below?

"Thinks of yesterday's shopping trip,

the kids outgrowing their shoes again

and such unfinished things."

• Irony

• Contrast

• Listing

• Juxtaposition

What is the main literary device used in the lines below? "Daytime, and her mother-ship shuttles its small satellites from playschool to violin class"

• Imagery

• Diction

• Metaphor

• Simile

What is the main literary device used in the lines below? "The washing machine groans. Pipes swish, the dryer roars"

• Auditory imagery

• Gustatory imagery

• Olfactory imagery

• Tactile imagery

What is the main literary device used in the lines below? "She wishes she were in a vacuum, not vacuuming or doing dishes."

• Tone

• Contrast

• Listing

• Metaphor

What is the main literary device used in the lines below? "She longs to be in the dark, and young, with star-fields leaping light-years beyond time's gravity"

• Visual imagery

• Simile

• Irony

• Contrast

What is the main literary device used in the lines below? "till all the clocks break free"

• Tactile Imagery

• Personification

• Simile

• Hyperbole