Literary Devices Pre-Test

giving human qualities to a non-human thing

• personification

• hyperbole

• dialogue

an object that represents something else

• metaphor

• symbolism

• hyperbole

something overstated and exaggerated

• allusion

• irony

• hyperbole

a reference to another piece of literature or historical event

• imagery

• allusion

• metaphor

spoken lines by characters in a story

• conflict

• dialogue

• irony

comparing two unlike things

• metaphor

• symbolism

• imagery

revealing a reality that is different from what appears to be true

• symbolism

• allusion

• irony

words that create a picture with words for a reader

• imagery

• hyperbole

• simile

a comparison between two things using "like" or "as"

• conflict

• symbolism

• simile

a struggle between two opposing forces

• conflict

• hyperbole

• irony