Literary Devices Test

A Comparison Using like or as

• Metaphor

• Symbolism

• Similie

• Oxymoron

Compares to things not using like or as

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

An exaggerated way of saying something

• hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Theme

• Irony

The life lesson of a story

• Personification

• Theme

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

When an inanimate object is given human characteristics

• Similie

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Rising Action

When something hints to a later event in the story

• Flashback

• Irony

• Foreshadowing

• Point of view

An object or thing that represents something bigger than itself

• Foreshadowing

• Simile

• Symbol

• Personification

Break a leg is what kind of literary device?

• simile

• personification

• idiom

• dramatic irony

"Words or ideas deliberately said or written multiple times within a sentence or series of sentences", is which literary device - ?

• word choice

• symbolism

• repetition

• onomatopoeia

What figurative language is present in the statement below?

1. "I have a million things to do this week."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole