Literary Devices Quiz

What is a comparison made using the words 'like' or 'as'?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

What is a comparison made directly or indirectly without using 'like' or 'as'?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

What is giving human characteristics to something which is not human?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

What are words which attempt to imitate sounds?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

What is a repetition of initial letters in a sequence of words?

• Alliteration

• Plosive

• Sibilance

• Assonance

What are the 'b,' 'p,' 't' and 'd' sounds called?

• Alliteration

• Plosive

• Sibilance

• Assonance

What are the repeated 'S' sounds most often caused by?

• Alliteration

• Plosive

• Sibilance

• Assonance

What is a repetition of vowel sounds?

• Alliteration

• Plosive

• Sibilance

• Assonance

What is a repetition of words, phrases or clauses at the start of successive clauses?

• Anaphora

• Juxtaposition

• Oxymoron

• Semantic field

What is the term for two ideas being placed close together for contrasting effect?

• Anaphora

• Juxtaposition

• Oxymoron

• Semantic field