Literary Devices Practice

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What is a hyperbole?

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Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

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Simile: A figure of speech comparing one thing to another of a different kind for vivid description.

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A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid.

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What is an allusion?

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An expression that calls something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect reference.

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Personification: attribution of human traits to nonhuman entities or abstract qualities.

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Attribution of human traits to nonhuman entities or abstract qualities.

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Dramatic irony:

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A literary device where the audience's understanding of events surpasses that of the characters.

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Verbal irony occurs when the literal meaning of what someone says differs from what they actually mean.

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Occurs when the literal meaning of what someone says is opposite to what they mean.

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Situational irony occurs when the opposite of what is expected happens.

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Takes place when the opposite of what is expected to happen actually happens.

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Onomatopoeia:

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Formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.