Name:______________________________ Combined Test – Literary/ Poetic Devices in Home of the Brave Directions: The following lines are from Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate. The words in bold are examples of a variety of literary devices. Circle the letter that best corresponds with the literary device being used in each excerpt. 1. This cold is like claws on my skin. P. 3 c. allusion a. personification b. simile 2. His car is red and coughs and burps. P. 6 a. personification b. metaphor c. pun d. oxymoron 3. We drive past buildings, everywhere buildings. Everywhere cars. Everywhere dead trees. P. 8 a. simile b. metaphor c. onomatopoeia 4 A cow is god with a wet nose. P. 15 a. metaphor b. alliteration c. hyperbole d. hyperbole d. repetition d. assonance 5.She moos, a harsh and mournful sound. P. 16 b. Metaphor b. pun c. onomatopoeia d. repetition 6. . The night Ganwar lost his hand was the night I lost my father and brother, the night of men in the sky with guns, the night the earth opened up like a black pit and swallowed my old life whole. P. 21 a. personification b. repetition c. allusion 7. Only the snow talks. P. 58 a. personification b. repetition c. allusion 8. Inside my school, the floor shines like ice. P. 67 a. personification b. simile c. metaphor d. metaphor d. metaphor d. hyperbole 9. She says, Don’t eat the mystery meat, if you value your life. a. personification b. alliteration c. metaphor d. hyperbole 10. I stand still in the stream of students. P. 77 a. personification c. metaphor d. hyperbole b. alliteration Combined Test – Page Two Name:______________________ 11. When my aunt leaves, the apartment grows hushed as the air before a storm. P. 92 a. personification b. alliteration c. pun d. simile 12. Then I close the top/ and wait, /while all around me/ the machines hum and talk. P. 94 b. alliteration c. pun d. simile a. personification 13. Hold on, he says. We’ll see about that soon enough. You just got here, Kek. You need some time to get your feet wet. I check my shoes. It’s true enough that they are dry. P. 108 a. personification b. alliteration c. pun d. simile 14. The wind slaps my cheeks. P. 136 a. personification b. alliteration d. simile 15. I wait for Ganwar to spit out the word no, but he gives a slow nod. Dave looks at his arm clock. Ten minutes, he says, tops. a. assonance b. pun d. oxymoron 16. Hunger is a wild dog P. 150 a. personification b. alliteration c. pun e. repetition c. metaphor d. simile 17. A car whooshes past. P. 157 b. alliteration a. onomatopoeia c. metaphor d. simile 18. Each book is like a door. P. 160 a. onomatopoeia b. alliteration c. metaphor d. simile 19. Summer is ice cream and skate boards. P. 189 b. alliteration c. metaphor a. onomatopoeia d. simile 20.Hannah tips my glove over the box/ and the quarters slip in with/ a happy jangle. P. 114 a. onomatopoeia b. alliteration c. metaphor d. simile ANSWER KEY 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. b (simile) a (personification) d (repetition) a (metaphor) c (onomatopoeia) a (personification) a (personification) b (simile) b (alliteration) b (alliteration) d (simile) a (personification) c (pun) a (personification) a (assonance) c (metaphor) a (onomatopoeia) d (simile) c (metaphor) a (onomatopoeia)