Figurative Language, Literary Devices, and Elements Quiz

A comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as."

• Juxtaposition

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Imagery

The repetition of initial consonant sounds (ex: Mickey Mouse).

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Repetition

Hyperbole.

• A comparison using "like" or "as"

• An exaggeration

• An image in your mind

• Giving human characters to nonhuman things

A word or phrase that creates a picture in your mind or appeals to one or more of the five senses—sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell.

• Imagery

• Alliteration

• Foreshadowing

• Symbol

A figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else.  DOES NOT USE LIKE OR AS.

(Ex. Her hair is gold. A blanket of snow covered the streets.)

• Irony

• Flashback

• Simile

• Metaphor

Onomatopoeia

• When something stands for itself and an idea

• Paints a picture in the reader's mind

• The use of words that imitate sounds

• Putting two things or ideas in a text near each other to contrast

Giving human characteristics to nonhuman things.

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Allusion

The use of a repeating sound, phrase, word, or sentence for emphasis.

• Repetition

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Irony

When the author interrupts a story to take the reader back in time to show previous events.

• Dynamic

• Allusion

• Suspense

• Flashback

Foreshadowing.

• Hints or clues that suggest something will happen later in the story

• When an author goes back in time to show something important to the reader

• When a character says something they do not really mean

• A feeling of uncertainty about the outcome of events in a literary work