Literary Devices

My husband recently started teaching Marcus and Gabriella literary devices using scripture as examples. So far, they have learned metaphor, simile, hyperbole, personification, and understatement; up next, metonymy and synecdoche. He gives them weekly quizzes and we are both amazed at how quickly they are catching on! Below are sample quiz passages. Can you match the literary device being used to the passage? Give it a try! :-)

Psalm 42:1 - As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God.

Psalm 114:3-4 - The sea looked and fled; Jordan turned back. The mountains skipped …

2 Chronicles 1:15 - the king made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stone …

Deuteronomy 1:28 - are we going up? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying, "The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to heaven …

Matthew 4:2 - And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.

John 6:51 - I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."

Mark 10:25 - It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God."

Steve also fell in love with Tapestry of Grace, and as soon as it arrives, will officially be Marcus and Lella's humanities teacher. As a math major, I am extremely grateful!