EN471: Key Vocabulary Review - Literary Devices

Which literary device is best described as "Words or phrases that use a collection of images to appeal to one or more of the five senses in order to create

a mental picture"?

• imagery

• simile

• metaphor

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Which literary device is best described as "a reference to a well-known person, place, or thing from literature, history, etc. Ex: Eden"?

• imagery

• metaphor

• personification

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

Which literary device is best described as "a figure of speech that uses like, as, than, or as if to make a direct comparison between two essentially different objects, actions, or qualities"?

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

Which literary device can best be described as "a figure of speech in which one thing is referred to as another; a direct comparison between two unlike

things"?

• personification

• imagery

• allusion

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Which literary device is best described as "the attribution of human qualities to a nonhuman or inanimate object"?

• personification

• metaphor

• imagery

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

Which literary device is best described as "deliberate exaggeration in order to create humor or emphasis"?

• personification

• hyperbole

• imagery

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Which term is best described as, "the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse"?

• parallel structure

• rhyme scheme

• imagery

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which term is best described as "the technique of arranging words, phrases, clauses, or larger structures by placing them side by side and making them similar in form"?

• hyperbole

• rhyme scheme

• allusion

• parallel structure

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

Which of the following rhyme schemes best fits this poem?

Roses are red

Violets are blue

Sugar is sweet

And so are you!

• AABB

• ABCD

• ABCB

• ABAC

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

Winston Churchill said, “We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields.”

This is an example of:

• hyperbole

• imagery

• parallel structure

• rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4