Vocabulary Quiz-Figurative Language

Use like or as to compare two unlike things

• Idioms

• Imagery

• Simile

• Analogy

Extreme exaggeration

• Hyperbole

• Allusion

• Foreshadowing

• Flashback

The author's use of hints or clues to suggest what may happen later in the plot.

• Cliffhanger

• Allusion

• Personification

• Foreshadowing

This is an implied or indirect reference to something, especially in literature

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Idioms

• Flashback

Is language that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation. When a writer uses literal language, he or she is simply stating the facts as they are.

• Personification

• Figurative Language

• Foreshadowing

• Flashback

This a literary device where an author shows something that occurred earlier. This is used to create a background to the present situation, place, or person.

• Cliffhanger

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

• Flashback

A word that imitates the sound it represents.

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Clffihanger

A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way.

• Metaphor

• Analogy

• Allusion

• Imagery

An ending to a section, chapter, or book that leaves the reader in suspense

• Imagery

• Cliffhanger

• Foreshadowing

• Flashback

A state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen.

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

• Excitement

• Suspense