Stylistic Devices Quiz

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 6

Well, son, I'll tell you:
Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.
It's had tacks in it,
And splinters,
And boards torn up,
And places with no carpet on the floor—
Bare.

1. synecdoche
2. metaphor
3. irony
4. pun

I had so much homework last night that I needed a pickup truck to carry all my books home.

1. synecdoche
2. onomatopoeia
3. pun
4. hyperbole

Let's just say that Ms. Kardashian is not the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree.

1. paradox
2. litotes
3. apostrophe
4. chiasmus

Turn off your television sets. Turn them off now! Turn them off right now! Turn them off and leave them off. Turn them off right in the middle of this sentence I'm speaking to you now.

1. hyperbole
2. anaphora
3. assonance
4. oxymoron

The chug-a, chug-a, chug-a of the train echoed down the hill, while a cloud of smoke rose up to the blue western sky.

1. simile
2. metonymy
3. onomatopoeia
4. anaphora

substituting the word 'euthanasia' for 'mercy killing' or 'killing the terminally ill'

1. hyperbole
2. euphemism
3. assonance

But the prisoner would not answer, he only lay with wide, dark, bright, eyes, like a bound animal.

1. oxymoron
2. euphemism
3. anaphora
4. personification

You have a lot of work to do, so I'll lend you a hand.

1. assonance
2. apostrophe
3. irony
4. synecdoche

Pitching pennies with the Pittsburgh Pirates in a pitter-patter of rain outside the Pitti Palace.

1. chiasmus
2. oxymoron
3. consonance
4. alliteration

O Western wind, when wilt thou blow
That the small rain down can rain?
Christ, that my love were in my arms,
And I in my bed again!

1. litotes
2. paradox
3. apostrophe
4. anaphora

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

1. hyperbole
2. litotes
3. anaphora
4. chiasmus

We talked with each other about each other
Though neither of us spoke —

1. paradox
2. metonymy
3. synecdoche
4. personification

The earth laughs beneath my heavy feet
At the blasphemy in my old jangly walk

1. euphemism
2. simile
3. antithesis
4. personification

I dig my toes into the sand.
The ocean looks like
A thousand diamonds strewn
Across a blue blanket.

1. chiasmus
2. simile
3. antithesis
4. onomatopoeia

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.

1. simile
2. irony
3. metonymy
4. assonance

Why do we wait until a pig is dead to cure it?

1. pun
2. personification
3. anaphora
4. synecdoche

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, ...

1. antithesis
2. litotes
3. simile
4. understatement

My wishes raced through the house high hay
And nothing I cared, at my sky blue trades, . . .

1. simile
2. irony
3. metonymy
4. assonance

“What a pleasant day” (when it is raining heavily)

1. verbal irony
2. dramatic irony
3. situational

Prospective buyers are advised not to rely heavily on the front brakes, which are not connected.

1. antithesis
2. simile
3. anaphora
4. understatement