PRE-TEST

Directions: Read each question carefully and choose the best answer from the
options provided. Write your answer on answer before each number.

1. The line “Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings" what literary device is
used?
a) Simile
b) Imagery
c) Metaphor
d) Alliteration

2.) Which line from the poem provides a vivid image of the sky being tired and
resting its soft machine on the ground?
a) "Rain is when the earth is television."
b) "Mist is when the sky is tired of flight."
c) "Time is tied to the wrist."
d) "In homes, a haunted apparatus sleeps."

3.) This literary device refers to represent objects, actions and ideas in such a way
that it appeals to our physical senses.
a) Imagery
b) Metaphor
c) Assonance
d) Personification

4.) “Vanessa’s eyes are like a star that shines” is an example of what literary device?
a) Simile
b) Metaphor
c) Repetition
d) Personification
5.) This the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite
of the literal meaning.
a) Simile
b) Irony
c) Metonymy
d) Literary Devices

6.) What literary devices is used to attribute human characteristics to something that
is not human.
a) Simile
b) Irony
c) Metaphor
d) Personification

7.) What imagery is evoked in the line "the world is dim and bookish like engravings
under tissue paper"?
a) Darkness
b) Softness
c) Colorfulness
d) Loudness

8.) In the line from the poem “A Martian Sends a Postcard Home” by Craig Raine
"Model T is a room with the lock inside," what does the Model T represent
metaphorically?
a) Time
b) The world
c) A key
d) Movement
9.) A literary device is any specific aspect of literature, or a particular work, which we
can recognize, identify, interpret and/or analyze.
a) True
b) False
c) Maybe
d) Both A and B

10.) Which aspect of the poem reflects irony in the way people deal with the haunted
apparatus?
a) They soothe it to sleep.
b) They wake it up deliberately.
c) Only the young suffer openly.
d) Adults go to a punishment room.
POST TEST
Directions: Read each question carefully and choose the best answer from the
options provided. Write your answer on answer before each number.

1.) In the poem “A Martian Sends a Postcard Home” by Craig Raine, which line uses
metaphor to describe mist as a "soft machine"?
a) "Mist is when the sky is tired of flight."
b) "The world is dim and bookish."
c) "Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings."
d) "Rain is when the earth is television."

2.) This literary device refers to represent objects, actions and ideas in such a way
that it appeals to our physical senses.
a) Imagery
b) Metaphor
c) Assonance
d) Personification

3.) What vivid imagery is associated with rain in the poem “A Martian Sends a
Postcard Home” by Craig Raine?
a) "The Model T is a room with the lock inside."
b) "They hide in pairs and read about themselves."
c) "The earth is television."
d) "Rain tapped on the window like a forgotten melody."

4.) Identify the line that uses metonymy to represent time.

a) "But time is tied to the wrist."
b) "In homes, a haunted apparatus sleeps."
c) "The key is turned to free the world."
d) "The ghost cries, they carry it to their lips."
5.) In the poem “A Martian Sends a Postcard Home” by Craig Raine, what is
personified by being described as something that "snores when you pick it up"?
a) The rain
b) Mist
c) Time
d) Haunted apparatus

Items 6-7

“Stopping by woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost

"The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,

But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep."

6.) Which line used metaphor in the poem?

a.) The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
b.) But I have promises to keep,
c.) And miles to go before I sleep

7.) Which line used imagery in the poem?

a.) The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
b.) But I have promises to keep,
c.) And miles to go before I sleep

8.) This the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite
of the literal meaning.
a) Simile
b) Irony
c) Metonymy
d) Literary Devices
9.) Identify the line that uses metonymy to represent the world's movement.
a) "But time is tied to the wrist."
b) "The Model T is a room with the lock inside."
c) "Rain is when the earth is television."
d) "A key is turned to free the world."

10.) What is ironic about the punishment room described in the poem?
a) They suffer openly.
b) The door is locked.
c) There is water but nothing to eat.
d) No one is exempt from suffering.