<p> Literary Device Final Assessment Name:______</p><p>**Fill-in-the-Blank Questions</p><p>1. Name the literary device used: ______My backpack weighed more than an African elephant. (Nice one, Jake!)</p><p>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!)</p><p>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!)</p><p>**Underline and label the literary device(s) used in the following literary texts. (There can be more than one.)</p><p>5. -- Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet” Act 1 Scene 1: </p><p>"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." </p><p>6. --Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons, Chapter 10 </p><p>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.”</p><p>7. --Teena Marie, “Portuguese Love”</p><p>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.</p><p>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</p><p>10.--Eve Merriam</p><p>Morning is a new sheet of paper for you to write on.</p><p>Whatever you want to say, all day, until night folds it up and files it away.</p><p>The bright words and the dark words are gone until dawn and a new day to write on.</p><p>11. --Edgar Allan Poe, “The Raven”</p><p>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.'</p><p>12. --S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders</p><p>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. </p><p>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.)</p><p>______</p>