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Figurative Language Pre-Assessment


Name:
Date:

Read each question carefully, then print the letter of the correct answer on the line next to the question.

1. _____ Allusion is
a. A type of literary device where sounds are repeated multiple times in a
row.
b. A reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, literary, cultural,
or political significance.
c. The main idea of a text

2. _____ Choose the correct example of onomatopoeia:


a. Wise fool
b. Stanley Yelnats
c. Buzzing bee

3. _____ An oxymoron is
a. A combination of opposite words.
b. When a character or narrator speaks directly to an inanimate object.
c. A comparison using “like” or “as”.

4. _____ Personification is
a. When an author creates a character.
b. A made-up word.
c. When an author gives human characteristics to a thing that is not human.

5. _____ Choose the correct example of a metaphor:


a. Dance is a poem.
b. Dance is like a poem.

6. _____ Imagery is the literary term used for


a. Language and description that appeals to our five senses.
b. Words that represent a sound.
c. Showing exaggeration.
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Read each poem carefully, then answer the questions to the right of the poems. If you
don’t understand a word look at the vocabulary definitions underneath the poems.
Fog
By Carl Sandburg

The fog comes _______ This poem is an example of
on little cat feet. a. Metaphor
b. Personification
c. Allusion
It sits looking
over harbor and city (Hint: Look at the first two lines of the poem.)
on silent haunches
and then moves on.

*Definitions:
Haunches: The bottom and thigh of an animal or human.


The morns are meeker than they were- (32)
By Emily Dickinson
Circle two examples of personification.
The morns are meeker than they were -
The nuts are getting brown -
The berry’s cheek is plumper -
Write the number of lines in this poem.
The rose is out of town.
_______
The maple wears a gayer scarf -
The field a scarlet gown - Write the number of stanzas in this
Lest I sh'd be old-fashioned poem.
I’ll put a trinket on. _______

How many syllables are in the first line

*Definitions: of the poem?


Meeker: Quieter _______
Gayer: Happier
Gown: A dress
Trinket: An ornament or item of jewelry

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