Literary Terms and Devices

A play on words is called

• a pun

• a play

• a Dad joke

An example of a pun would be:

• I was struggling to figure out how lightning works then it struck me.

• That got my goat

• You are my sun

• Pay the Pied Piper

An oxymoron is a

• a really mean think to say

• a type of oxygen

• phrase made of two or more words that actually have opposite meanings.

• a person who can't breathe

The repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences is

• oxymoron

• assonance

• hyperbole

• metaphor

"You're my devil, you're my angel" is an example of what?

• simile

• juxtaposition

• oxymoron

• personification

The repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences

• Alliteration

• Pun

• Assonance

• Allusion

A statement that upon first seen does not make sense, but with context or further understanding, does make sense.

• Idiom

• Irony

• Symbolism

• Paradox

Which statement is not a paradox?

• No one goes to that restaurant, it's too crowded.

• Death, you shall not die.

• I must be cruel to be kind

• It was sweet sorrow.

This is an example of:

• Verbal irony

• Situational Irony

• Dramatic Irony

• No irony

When the opposite of what is expected happens it is called:

• euphemism

• metaphor

• situational irony

• coincidence