Literary Devices

The central idea or universal truth that a story examines is  ________________________.

• Conflict
• Theme
• Point of view
• Resolution

A reference to a literary, mythological, or historical person, place, or thing

• allusion
• idiom
• exposition
• pun

Contrast between appearance and reality; when one thing is expected and the exact opposite occurs

• idiom
• tone
• pun
• irony

Deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration

• paradox
• tone
• symbol
• hyperbole

Writing that gives inanimate objects human characteristics

• exposition
• rising action
• personification
• falling action

Words or phrases a writer uses to represent persons, objects, actions, feelings, and ideas descriptively by appealing to the five senses

• imagery
• irony
• tone
• theme

"The dark sky, filled with angry, swirling clouds, reflected Greg Ridley's mood," is an example of which literary device?

• Personification
• Hyperbole
• Metaphor
• Oxymoron

"The voice was high and brittle, like dry twigs being broken, surely not one he had ever heard before." is an example of which literary device?

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Imagery
• Personification

"...the beam from the flashlight danced crazily along the peeling wallpaper," is an example of which literary device?

• Personification
• Simile
• Epiphany
• Oxymoron

What is onomatopoeia?

• a word that mimics a sound
• repetition of consonant sounds
• using symbols to represent something
• Giving human-like traits to non-living objects

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