Literary Device Review

Literary Device Review for Public Speaking

Common Literary/Rhetorical Devices

The following terms are literary devices we reviewed and took notes on earlier in the semester. You probably have a pink or yellow "terms sheet" with these definitions.

• This is a review of those terms.

• You wlll need to know these terms or have access to them for upcoming assignments.

• Answer the review questions at the end.

Multiple Choice

It is a direct address to someone absent, long dead, or even to an inanimate objects or ideas.

• Apostrophe

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Consonance

Multiple Choice

Which literary devices are at work here? “Life is like a box of chocolates—you never know what you're gonna get.”

• simile and metaphor

• analogy and simile

• metaphor and apostrophe

• simile and anaphora

Multiple Choice

Which literary device is this? "Where are you, my pen?"

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Apostrophe

• Alliteration

Multiple Choice

This quiz is a breeze.

• simile

• parody

• metaphor

• diction

Multiple Choice

Repetition of an initial consonant sound. This literary term is often used in poetry. 

• Allegory
• Alliteration
• Antithesis
• Archetype