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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

What is imagery?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: A

The correct answer is Language that appeals to the senses and helps readers form mental pictures..

  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: Imagery uses sensory details to make experiences more vivid.
  3. Check the effect: The correct answer is Language that appeals to the senses and helps readers form mental pictures..

Imagery uses sensory details to make experiences more vivid.

2. QuestionMultiple choice

Which phrase uses visual imagery?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: B

The correct answer is A red kite rose above the dark green forest..

  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 colors and shapes create an image that readers can see.
  3. Check the effect: The correct answer is A red kite rose above the dark green forest..

The colors and shapes create an image that readers can see.

3. QuestionMultiple choice

Which phrase uses auditory imagery?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: C

The correct answer is The cracked bell clanged across the courtyard..

  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: Clanged and the description of the bell appeal to the sense of hearing.
  3. Check the effect: The correct answer is The cracked bell clanged across the courtyard..

Clanged and the description of the bell appeal to the sense of hearing.

4. QuestionMultiple choice

Which phrase uses tactile imagery?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: D

The correct answer is The rough rope scraped against my palms..

  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: Rough and scraped describe a physical sensation of touch.
  3. Check the effect: The correct answer is The rough rope scraped against my palms..

Rough and scraped describe a physical sensation of touch.

5. QuestionMultiple choice

What is symbolism?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: A

The correct answer is When a concrete object or action suggests a larger abstract idea..

  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: A symbol connects a literal element with a broader concept such as freedom, memory, or loss.
  3. Check the effect: The correct answer is When a concrete object or action suggests a larger abstract idea..

A symbol connects a literal element with a broader concept such as freedom, memory, or loss.

6. QuestionMultiple choice

A locked gate appears whenever a character feels excluded. What might the gate symbolize?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: B

The correct answer is Barriers or lack of access..

  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 repeated gate image connects physical blockage with emotional or social exclusion.
  3. Check the effect: The correct answer is Barriers or lack of access..

The repeated gate image connects physical blockage with emotional or social exclusion.

7. QuestionMultiple choice

A seed appears at the end of a story about rebuilding after loss. What might it symbolize?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: C

The correct answer is Renewal and future possibility..

  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: A seed can suggest growth, renewal, and the possibility of a new beginning.
  3. Check the effect: The correct answer is Renewal and future possibility..

A seed can suggest growth, renewal, and the possibility of a new beginning.

8. QuestionMultiple choice

What is an allusion used to do?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: D

The correct answer is Connect a text to a familiar story, person, event, or cultural idea..

  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: An allusion relies on readers recognizing an outside reference and its associations.
  3. Check the effect: The correct answer is Connect a text to a familiar story, person, event, or cultural idea..

An allusion relies on readers recognizing an outside reference and its associations.

9. QuestionMultiple choice

A poem compares a difficult journey to a descent into darkness. What does the comparison most likely add?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: A

The correct answer is It gives the journey emotional and symbolic depth..

  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 image of darkness can suggest fear, uncertainty, suffering, or transformation.
  3. Check the effect: The correct answer is It gives the journey emotional and symbolic depth..

The image of darkness can suggest fear, uncertainty, suffering, or transformation.

10. QuestionMultiple choice

How should readers determine the meaning of a symbol?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: B

The correct answer is Consider its context, repetition, relationships, and effect in the whole text..

  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: Symbols gain meaning from how a particular text uses and develops them.
  3. Check the effect: The correct answer is Consider its context, repetition, relationships, and effect in the whole text..

Symbols gain meaning from how a particular text uses and develops them.

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