Literary Term Practice

How well do you know your

literary terms?

What Term Is It?

Don't delay dawns disarming display . Dusk demands daylight . Dewdrops dwell delicatelydrawing dazzling delight .Dewdrops dilute daisies domain. Distinguished debutantes . Diamonds defray delivereddaylights distilled daisy dance .  (Dewdrops Dancing Down Daisies By Paul McCann)

Alliteration

What Term Is It?

"It beats as it sweeps as it cleans." (Slogan for Hoover vacuum cleaners)

Assonance

What Term Is It?

From Beauty and the Beast

Personification

What Term Is It?

Brian was a wall, bouncing every tennis ball back over the net.

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Metaphor

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What Term Is It?

And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the sideOf my darling, my darling, my life and my bride.

Assonance

What Term Is It?

Sometimes I think my computer hates me!

Personification

What Term Is It?

My mind is as brave as a warriorof the night.

It's ready totake on anything that comes toit.

It can take on any dream,and always followsLife.

By Alex

Simile

What Term Is It?

Hear the loud alarum bells--   Brazen bells!What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells! (“The Bells” by Edgar Allan Poe)

Alliteration

What Term Is It?

"The streets were a furnace, the sun an executioner.“ (Cynthia Ozick, "Rosa")

Metaphor

What terms do you observe in the poem?

Rain Rain races,

Ripping like wind.Its restless rageRattles likeRocks ripping throughThe air.

By Jake

What Term Is It?

Man vs. Nature

Conflict

What Term Is It?

Onomatopoeia

What Term Is It?

The opening line of “The Cask of Amontillado by Poe: “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge.”

Point of View

What Term Is It?

It’s as clear as mud.

Oxymoron

What Term Is It?

'Listen to the fire crackle in the dark' .

Onomatopoeia

What Term Is It?

You had to choose between what two difficult choices? ___  or ___

Conflict

What Term Is It?

“They're free to run anywhere they like whenever they like, so they do. The land falls away from their small house on the hill along a prickly path; there's a dirt road, a pasture where the steer are kept, swamps, a gully, groves of fruit trees, and then the creek from whose far bank a wooded mountain surges--they climb it…”

(From “Flower Children” by Maxine Swann)

Point of View

What Term Is It?

Johnny loves jumbo shrimp.

Oxymoron