BECE Literary Devices in Prose 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: "Her voice was as smooth as honey flowing over warm bread." Which literary device is used?
- Metaphor
- Simile (Correct answer)
- Personification
- Hyperbole
Correct answer: Simile
This is a simile because it uses 'as' to compare the voice to honey.
Question 2: "The trees whispered secrets to the wind as night fell." What literary device is illustrated?
- Alliteration
- Hyperbole
- Personification (Correct answer)
- Onomatopoeia
Correct answer: Personification
Personification gives human qualities (whispering secrets) to non-human things (trees).
Question 3: "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers." Which device does this illustrate?
- Assonance
- Alliteration (Correct answer)
- Rhyme
- Consonance
Correct answer: Alliteration
Alliteration is the repetition of the same initial consonant sound ('p') in closely connected words.
Question 4: Which of the following words is the best example of onomatopoeia?
- Beautiful
- Enormous
- Sizzle (Correct answer)
- Quickly
Correct answer: Sizzle
Sizzle imitates the actual sound it describes, which is the definition of onomatopoeia.
Question 5: "I have told you a million times to clean your room!" This sentence contains which device?
- Simile
- Metaphor
- Irony
- Hyperbole (Correct answer)
Correct answer: Hyperbole
Hyperbole is an extreme exaggeration used for emphasis; no one literally repeats a million times.
Question 6: A student fails an exam and says, "Well, that went perfectly!" This is an example of:
- Dramatic irony
- Situational irony
- Verbal irony (Correct answer)
- Cosmic irony
Correct answer: Verbal irony
Verbal irony occurs when someone says the opposite of what they actually mean.
Question 7: A narrator interrupts the current story to describe an event from the character's childhood. This technique is called:
- Foreshadowing
- Flashback (Correct answer)
- Flash-forward
- Exposition
Correct answer: Flashback
A flashback interrupts the chronological flow of the narrative to revisit past events.
BECE Literary Devices in Prose 2
"Her voice was as smooth as honey flowing over warm bread." Which literary device is used?