Glossary of Literary Terms Test

A comparison between two unlike things using “like” or “as”

• symbolism

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

The "narrator" of a poem

• Author

• Poet

• Speaker

• Main Character

Patterns of words that sound the same

• Rhyme

• Rhythm

• Alliteration

• Repetition

A concrete object with an abstract meaning

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Symbol

Giving an object human-like qualities

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Anthropomorphization

• Hyperbole

A repetition of sounds throughout several words in a line

• Alliteration

• Rhyme

• Rhythm

• Repetition

The use of very descriptive, sensory language

• Irony

• Idiom

• Imagery

• Symbol

A group of lines arranged together

• Form

• Couplet

• Quatrain

• Stanza

The beat created by the sounds of the words in a poem

• Alliteration

• Rhyme

• Rhythm

• Repetition

Identify the literary device underlined in the following:

“I’m getting married in the morning!

Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime.”

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

• Assonance

• Rhyme