Literary Devices Final Assessment Name:
Complete at least 10 of the 13 questions. You can earn a 4 by getting more than 10 correct.
**Fill-in-the-Blank Questions
1. Name the literary device used: ______
My backpack weighed more than an African elephant. (Jake, 7th grade)
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. (Mayan, 7th grade)
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. (Emma, 7th grade)
**Underline and label the literary device(s) used in each of these texts. (There can be more than one.)
4. --Mom and Dad are Home
Slam! Slam!
Go the car doors.
Jangle! Jangle!
Go the house keys.
Jiggle! Jiggle!
Go the keys in the door.
Squeak!
Goes the front door!
Thump! Thump!
That is me running down the stairs.
Guess what?
Mom and Dad are home!!
5. --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.
6. --Alexander Key, The Forgotten Door pg. 23
Hello, Mr. Gilby,” Sally chirped brightly, scooping the boots from under Gilby’s nose. “My goodness, Mommy will kill 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!”
8.
The rattling of the tin roof overhead brings a calming feeling to my ears. I open the soft wooden door and I see the rain falling onto the forest floor. The warm spring temperatures bring a rush of satisfaction to my nostrils as I take a deep whiff of the sweet flowery air.
9. --Kevin Henkes, Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse
Lilly loved school. She loved the pointy pencils. She loved the squeaky chalk. And she loved the way her boots went clickety-clickety-click down the long, shiny hallways.
10. --Denise Rodgers, Betty's Room
There is no clutter cluttered up
more closely, I presume,
than the clutter clustered clingingly
in my friend, Betty's room.
At bedtime, Betty bounces all
her objects to the floor.
Each morning, when she wakes up, they
go on her bed once more.
11. --Christina Rossetti, An Emerald is as Green as Grass
An emerald is as green as grass,
A ruby red as blood;
A sapphire shines as blue as heaven;
A flint lies in the mud.
A diamond is a brilliant stone,
To catch the world's desire;
An opal holds a fiery spark;
But a flint holds a fire.
12. --William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“O brawling love! O loving hate!
O anything of nothing first create!
O heavy lightness, serious vanity!
13. What literary device is being used in the poem below?
"Don't get too upset now," she said
"It's going to get much worse than this."
I didn't understand what she meant at the time,
But she was right.