Literary Devices Quiz Review

Repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration

A comparison using "like" or "as"

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

A comparison that does not use “like” or “as”. Says one thing IS the other.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Idiom

A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Symbol

• Idiom

Giving human characteristics to something nonhuman.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Idiom

• Alliteration

An expression that doesn't exactly mean what the words say. (example: that was a peice of cake!)

• Alliteration

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia

• Symbol

My backpack weighs 1000 pounds!

• Personifcation

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

I was as hungry as a horse

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Personification

Break a leg!

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Idiom