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Literary Devices Practice Tests

These Grade 10 English practice tests build skill with figurative language, sound devices, imagery, symbolism, irony, wordplay, mood, tone, and evidence-based literary analysis.

Skills covered

  • Identifying simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, idiom, oxymoron, and paradox
  • Recognizing alliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia, rhyme, rhythm, repetition, and anaphora
  • Analyzing imagery, symbolism, allusion, mood, tone, and figurative comparisons
  • Distinguishing dramatic, situational, and verbal irony, understatement, euphemism, and puns
  • Explaining how literary devices shape meaning, characterization, atmosphere, emphasis, and reader response

How to use these practice tests

First name the device from the exact language pattern. Then explain what the device suggests in context and how it affects tone, mood, imagery, emphasis, or theme.

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Grade 10 Literary Devices Practice Tests

Practice Grade 10 English questions about figurative language, sound devices, imagery, symbolism, irony, wordplay, mood, tone, and literary analysis.

Choose the best answer. Identify the language pattern, consider its context, and select the explanation that best describes its meaning or effect.

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1. QuestionMultiple choice

Which phrase demonstrates alliteration?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: A

The correct answer is Bright birds boldly built nests..

  1. Identify the language pattern: Look at the comparison, sound, image, contradiction, or repeated structure in the sentence or passage.
  2. Name the literary device: Alliteration repeats an initial consonant sound in nearby words.
  3. Check the effect: The correct answer is Bright birds boldly built nests..

Alliteration repeats an initial consonant sound in nearby words.

2. QuestionMultiple choice

Which phrase demonstrates assonance?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: B

The correct answer is The rain painted a gray day..

  1. Identify the language pattern: Look at the comparison, sound, image, contradiction, or repeated structure in the sentence or passage.
  2. Name the literary device: Assonance repeats vowel sounds, especially the long a sound in rain, painted, gray, and day.
  3. Check the effect: The correct answer is The rain painted a gray day..

Assonance repeats vowel sounds, especially the long a sound in rain, painted, gray, and day.

3. QuestionMultiple choice

Which phrase demonstrates consonance?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: C

The correct answer is The blank trunk sank into the bank..

  1. Identify the language pattern: Look at the comparison, sound, image, contradiction, or repeated structure in the sentence or passage.
  2. Name the literary device: Consonance repeats consonant sounds within or at the ends of nearby words.
  3. Check the effect: The correct answer is The blank trunk sank into the bank..

Consonance repeats consonant sounds within or at the ends of nearby words.

4. QuestionMultiple choice

Which word is onomatopoeia?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: D

The correct answer is Buzz..

  1. Identify the language pattern: Look at the comparison, sound, image, contradiction, or repeated structure in the sentence or passage.
  2. Name the literary device: Onomatopoeia is a word that imitates or strongly suggests a sound.
  3. Check the effect: The correct answer is Buzz..

Onomatopoeia is a word that imitates or strongly suggests a sound.

5. QuestionMultiple choice

What is the main effect of rhyme in a poem?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: A

The correct answer is It can create musical pattern, emphasis, and connection between lines..

  1. Identify the language pattern: Look at the comparison, sound, image, contradiction, or repeated structure in the sentence or passage.
  2. Name the literary device: Rhyme can shape sound, rhythm, expectation, and emphasis.
  3. Check the effect: The correct answer is It can create musical pattern, emphasis, and connection between lines..

Rhyme can shape sound, rhythm, expectation, and emphasis.

6. QuestionMultiple choice

What is rhythm in poetry?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: B

The correct answer is The pattern of beats or stresses in language..

  1. Identify the language pattern: Look at the comparison, sound, image, contradiction, or repeated structure in the sentence or passage.
  2. Name the literary device: Rhythm is created by patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables and pauses.
  3. Check the effect: The correct answer is The pattern of beats or stresses in language..

Rhythm is created by patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables and pauses.

7. QuestionMultiple choice

Which line uses onomatopoeia most clearly?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: C

The correct answer is The bees buzzed beside the bright window..

  1. Identify the language pattern: Look at the comparison, sound, image, contradiction, or repeated structure in the sentence or passage.
  2. Name the literary device: Buzzed imitates the sound associated with bees.
  3. Check the effect: The correct answer is The bees buzzed beside the bright window..

Buzzed imitates the sound associated with bees.

8. QuestionMultiple choice

What is repetition used for in a literary text?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: D

The correct answer is To emphasize an idea, image, sound, or emotional pattern..

  1. Identify the language pattern: Look at the comparison, sound, image, contradiction, or repeated structure in the sentence or passage.
  2. Name the literary device: Repeated words or structures can highlight importance and create rhythm.
  3. Check the effect: The correct answer is To emphasize an idea, image, sound, or emotional pattern..

Repeated words or structures can highlight importance and create rhythm.

9. QuestionMultiple choice

What is anaphora?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: A

The correct answer is Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or lines..

  1. Identify the language pattern: Look at the comparison, sound, image, contradiction, or repeated structure in the sentence or passage.
  2. Name the literary device: Anaphora places repeated language at the beginnings of nearby clauses or lines.
  3. Check the effect: The correct answer is Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or lines..

Anaphora places repeated language at the beginnings of nearby clauses or lines.

10. QuestionMultiple choice

Which sentence uses anaphora?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: B

The correct answer is We will learn, we will question, and we will improve..

  1. Identify the language pattern: Look at the comparison, sound, image, contradiction, or repeated structure in the sentence or passage.
  2. Name the literary device: The phrase we will is repeated at the beginnings of the coordinated clauses.
  3. Check the effect: The correct answer is We will learn, we will question, and we will improve..

The phrase we will is repeated at the beginnings of the coordinated clauses.

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