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Quiz on Literary Devices

Creative Nonfiction

1. The Wicked Witch of the West went her own way. ALLITERATION
2. We are one nation—and their pain is our pain. Their dreams are our dreams; and their success
will be our success. We share one heart, one home, and one glorious destiny. ANAPHORA
3. “Go ask his name: if he be married.
My grave is like to be my wedding bed.” IRONY
4. “I must be cruel to be kind.” PARADOX
5. Beautiful tyrant! fiond angelical!
Dove-feather’d raven! wolvish-ravening lamb! OXYMORON
6. It went zip when it moved and bop when it stopped,
And whirr when it stood still. ONOMATOPOEIA
7. War is the mother of all battles. METAPHOR
8. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,
it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness JUXTAPOSITION
9. “O my Luve’s like a red, red rose
That’s newly sprung in June; SIMILE
10. Oh! Stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me; if ye really pity me, crush
sensation and memory APOSTROPHE
11. “I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed and restless.” ASSONANCE

12-13. Should you ask me, whence these sto ries?

Whence these le gends and tra di tions,
With the o dors of the fo rest,
With the dew and damp of mea dows TROCHAIC

14-15 And we will all the plea sures prove,

That Val leys, groves, hills, and fields,
Woods, or stee py moun tain yields. IAMBIC