Identify the Literary Device Worksheet (Grade 7)
Free printable Grade 7 literary devices worksheet. Students identify simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole and alliteration in constructed examples. Answer key included.
Grade 7 · Reading worksheet
Name
Date
Reading
Identify the Literary Device
A simile compares with 'like' or 'as'; a metaphor says one thing is another; personification gives human qualities to non-human things; hyperbole exaggerates beyond possibility; alliteration repeats initial sounds. Name the device in each example.
Word bank
SimileMetaphorHyperboleAlliterationPersonification
- 1.Which literary device? "The last slice of cake called my name all afternoon."
- a) Simile
- b) Metaphor
- c) Personification
- d) Hyperbole
- e) Alliteration
- 2.Which literary device? "The old house groaned under the weight of the storm."
- a) Simile
- b) Metaphor
- c) Personification
- d) Hyperbole
- e) Alliteration
- 3.Which literary device? "The internet is a vast ocean of information."
- a) Simile
- b) Metaphor
- c) Personification
- d) Hyperbole
- e) Alliteration
- 4.Which literary device? "The new recruit was as keen as mustard."
- a) Simile
- b) Metaphor
- c) Personification
- d) Hyperbole
- e) Alliteration
- 5.Which literary device? "I've told you a million times to shut the gate."
- a) Simile
- b) Metaphor
- c) Personification
- d) Hyperbole
- e) Alliteration
- 6.Which literary device? "Bright banners bobbed above the busy bazaar."
- a) Simile
- b) Metaphor
- c) Personification
- d) Hyperbole
- e) Alliteration
- 7.Which literary device? "She was so hungry she could have eaten a horse."
- a) Simile
- b) Metaphor
- c) Personification
- d) Hyperbole
- e) Alliteration
- 8.Which literary device? "Wild winds whipped the western waves."
- a) Simile
- b) Metaphor
- c) Personification
- d) Hyperbole
- e) Alliteration
- 9.Which literary device? "The exam hall was a pressure cooker."
- a) Simile
- b) Metaphor
- c) Personification
- d) Hyperbole
- e) Alliteration
- 10.Which literary device? "The truck engine growled like a waking bear."
- a) Simile
- b) Metaphor
- c) Personification
- d) Hyperbole
- e) Alliteration
- 11.Which literary device? "Her voice was like velvet in the quiet hall."
- a) Simile
- b) Metaphor
- c) Personification
- d) Hyperbole
- e) Alliteration
- 12.Which literary device? "Six sleek seals slid across the slippery stones."
- a) Simile
- b) Metaphor
- c) Personification
- d) Hyperbole
- e) Alliteration
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