examenklas: Literary devices practice 1

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 5,6

Literature

Read through the literary devices list in the back of your booklet.

After studying the list, read the following lines and choose the correct literary device

From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life;

1. repetition
2. assonance
3. alliteration
4. personification

If I pass during some nocturnal blackness, mothy and warm,
When the hedgehog travels furtively over the lawn,

1. repetition
2. simile
3. euphemism
4. hyperbole

You try to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it
You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes

1. enjambments
2. personification
3. hyperbole
4. rhetoric question

How cruel is the story of Eve,
What responsibility it has
In history
For misery.

1. consonance
2. metaphor
3. personification
4. sonnet

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—
Only this and nothing more.”

1. alliteration
2. hyperbole
3. enjambments
4. irony

you couldn’t catch a chipmunk if all its legs were
broken and it was glued to the palm of your hand.

1. repetition
2. consonance
3. irony
4. hyperbole

When the wind blows the water white and black.
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.

1. assonance
2. consonance
3. hyperbole
4. irony

A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.

1. simile
2. metaphor
3. hyperbole
4. understatement

we are for eachother: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life’s not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis

1. simile
2. metaphor
3. irony
4. hyperbole

And so today, my world it smiles
Your hand in mine, we walk the miles,

1. personification
2. repetition
3. simile
4. understatement

“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”

1. simile
2. metaphor
3. understatement
4. hyperbole

Love is a song that never ends
One simple theme repeating
Like the voice of a heavenly choir
Love’s sweet music flows on

1. metaphor
2. simile
3. hyperboly
4. irony

Write down your own example of:
Understatement

Describe in your own words:
Rhetoric question

Explain in your own words:
Imagery

Explain what this metaphor means:
"He’s buried in a sea of paperwork."

Explain the simile in your own words:
"Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on."