Literary Device Final Assessment

Literary Device Final Assessment Name:______

**Fill-in-the-Blank Questions

1. Name the literary device used: ______My backpack weighed more than an African elephant. (Nice one, Jake!)

2. Name the literary Device used: ______As I was standing with sand in my toes I watched the blazing orange-red sun sink into the horizon. (Nice Mayan!)

3. Name the literary device used: ______It felt like my mattress was keeping me captive and I had no other choice than to shut my eyes for five more minutes. (Love this, Emma!)

**Underline and label the literary device(s) used in the following literary texts. (There can be more than one.)

5. -- Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet” Act 1 Scene 1:

"Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate, O anything of nothing first create! Oh, heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms, Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is."

6. --Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons, Chapter 10

All the while, I heard the whispers: rush, hurry, rush. Gram and Gramps moved so slowly. “Shouldn’t we go now?” I kept asking, but Gram would say, “Huzza, huzza!” and Gramps would say, “We’ll go soon, chickabiddy, soon.”

7. --Teena Marie, “Portuguese Love”

On a starry winter night in Portugal Where the ocean kissed the southern shore There a dream I never thought would come to pass Came and went like time spent through an hourglass.

8. --Taylor Swift, “Speak Now” I am not the kind of girl Who should be rudely barging in On a white veil occasion But you are not the kind of boy Who should be marrying the wrong girl I sneak in and see your friends And her snotty little family All dressed in pastel And she is yelling at a bridesmaid Somewhere back inside a room Wearing a gown shaped like a pastry 9. --Alexander Key, The Forgotten Door Hello, Mr. Gilby,” Sally chirped brightly, scooping the boots from under Gilby’s nose. “My goodness, Mommy will *scalp me if I don’t get the mud off these.” She skipped back into the kitchen, calling, “Mommy, when are we going to have supper? I’m hungry!” *scalp v. to cut off the top of the head

10.--Eve Merriam

Morning is a new sheet of paper for you to write on.

Whatever you want to say, all day, until night folds it up and files it away.

The bright words and the dark words are gone until dawn and a new day to write on.

11. --Edgar Allan Poe, “The Raven”

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, 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.'

12. --S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

When I see a movie with someone it’s kind of uncomfortable, like having someone read your book over your shoulder. I’m different that way. I mean, my second-oldest brother, Soda, who is sixteen-going-on-seventeen, never cracks a book at all, and my oldest brother, Darrell, who we call Darry, works too long and hard to be interested in a story or drawing a picture, so I’m not like them.

13. Give an example of pathetic fallacy in one of the texts we have read in class (Three Cups of Tea, Zlata’s Diary, Red Kayak, The Outsiders, or the poem Tell-Tale Heart.)

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