English Language
Literary genres and devices questions test the ability to identify plot elements, figure of speech types, and character motivations across various texts. Topics range from low fantasy and graphic novels to neoclassical literature characteristics. These form a core component of English language testing.
Identify the literary device in the following passage:
He had meant the best in the world, and been treated like a dog, like a
very dog. She would be sorry someday, maybe when it was too late. Ah, if
he could only die TEMPORARILY!
Brutus: Peace! Count the clock.
Cassius: The clock has stricken three.
These lines place a clock in classical Rome when clocks had not yet been invented. These lines contain an example of
Identify the literary device used in the following lines:
There wasn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there wasn't any lock on the door and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because its cool. If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to; but a hog is different.
Identify the literary device in the following sentence:
They crowded very close about him, with their hands always on him in a careful, caressing grip, as though all the while feeling him make sure he was there. It was like men handling a fish which is still alive and may jump back into the water.
Identify the genre to which the following passage belongs:
Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove,
That Valleys, groves, hills, and fields,
Woods, or steepy mountain yields.
And we will sit upon the Rocks,
Seeing the Shepherds feed their flocks,
By shallow Rivers to whose falls
Melodious birds sing Madrigals.
Identify the literary device used in the following lines:
What's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and isn't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?