Literary Elements Quiz
Part 1: Match the Literary Element to its definition. Write the letter of the word
that matches in the blank next to its definition.
____ 1. A comparison between 2 things using “like” or “as”.
____ 2. Figurative language in which non-human things are represented as having
human qualities.
____ 3. An expression that has a different meaning from the literal meaning of it’s
individual words.
____ 4. The message the author is trying to get across to the reader.
____ 5. An intentional and extreme exaggeration for emphasis or effect
____ 6. A comparison between 2 things that does not use “like” or “as”.
____ 7. The contradiction of what is implied and what is meant.
____ 8. Words that create sound.
____ 9. Creates an image in the readers mind.
____ 10. The repetition of the beginning consonant sound
Word Bank
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Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
Simile
Idiom
Theme
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
Irony
Imagery
Part 2: Identify the literary element. Write in the blank the literary element that
each example is. Each word from the word bank is used exactly once.
_______________ 7. “She is quick as a cricket”
_______________ 8. “That’s a piece of cake”
_______________ 9. The author was a coward, but he learned to be brave.
_______________ 10. “The flowers waltzed in the gentle breeze”
_______________ 11. “I am so hungry I could eat a horse”
_______________ 12. “beauty is truth, and truth beauty”
_______________ 13. “BANG, went the drums!”
_______________ 14. “The eraser's down here where the point belongs,
And the point's at the top - so it's no good to me.”
______________ 15. “Sally sells seashells by the seashore.”