LITERARY DEVICES TEST
Name the following literary devices being used in each example 1. Mad world! Mad kings! Mad composition!
Anaphora – deliberate repetition of word
2. Round the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran.
Alliteration – repetition of consonants
3. Hear the mellow wedding bells.
Assonance – repetition of vowel sounds
4. I was lost in a sea of nameless faces.
Metaphor
5. A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the Milky Way
Imagery – here there is a mix of personification & metaphor rendering
the poem as a painting
6. Splish, splash, splosh, went the wellington boots.
Onomatopoeia
7. So are you to my thoughts as food to life.
Simile – “metaphor” with as/like 1) A metaphor is an equation where a
simile is an approximation 2) A metaphor can always be greatly
extended, while a simile quickly reaches its limits
8. A red rose, a dove, a broken mirror - are all examples of this
literary device.
Symbols
9. To be or not to be, that is the question.
Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? – name at least two literary devices
being used here.
1) Soliloquy (NOT monologue) 2/ Blank verse 3/ Iambic pentameter