Literary Devices Quiz 1

a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things using the connective words like or as

• repetition

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

the intentional repeating of a sound, word, phrase, line, or idea in order to create a particular literary effect

• symbol

• repetition

• hyperbole

• assonance

the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds in words that are close together

• analogy

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• assonance

a contrast or discrepancy between expectations and reality--between what is said and what is really meant, between what is expected and what really happens, or between what appears to be true and what really is true

• juxtaposition

• satire

• irony

• repetition

a person, place, thing, or event that stands for both itself and for something beyond itself

• simile

• symbol

• alliteration

• tone

an expression peculiar to a particular language that means something different from the literal meaning of the words

• idiom

• satire

• anecdote

• metaphor

a scene in a narrative work that interrupts the present action of the plot to "flash backward" and tell what happened at an earlier time

• foreshadowing

• imagery

• flashback

• personification

a way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular region or group of people

• dialect

• tone

• diction

• idiom

a brief and sometimes witty story that focuses on a single interesting incident or event, often in order to make a point or teach a moral lesson

• allegory

• denotation

• extended metaphor

• anecdote

the overall emotion and atmosphere created by a work of literature

• tone

• imagery

• mood

• hyperbole