Literary Devices Quiz

Which literary device is being used in the following sentence: 'Her eyes were as blue as the ocean.'?

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

• metaphor

Which literary device is being used in the following sentence: 'The world is a stage.'?

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

• metaphor

Which literary device is being used in the following sentence: 'The flowers danced in the gentle breeze.'?

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

Which literary device is being used in the following sentence: 'I've told you a million times!'?

• simile

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• personification

Which literary device is being used in the following sentence: 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'?

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• alliteration

What is the definition of a simile?

• A literary device that uses the words 'like' or 'as' to create a visual comparison between two unrelated things.

• A type of metaphor that uses the words 'like' or 'as' to compare two different things.

• A figure of speech that compares two similar things using the words 'like' or 'as'.

• A figure of speech that compares two different things using the words 'like' or 'as'.

What is the definition of a metaphor?

• A metaphor is a type of poem.

• A metaphor is a comparison using the words 'like' or 'as'.

• A metaphor is a type of painting.

• A metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two different things by saying that one thing is another, without using the words 'like' or 'as'.

What is the definition of personification?

• Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects

• The act of impersonating someone

• Personification

• The process of becoming a person

What is the definition of hyperbole?

• Exaggeration for emphasis or dramatic effect.

• A type of mathematical equation.

• A figure of speech that compares two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'.

• A form of poetry that follows a specific rhyme scheme and meter.

What is the definition of alliteration?

• Repetition of the same sound or letter at the end of adjacent or closely connected words.

• Repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

• Repetition of the same word at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

• Repetition of the same sound or letter in the middle of adjacent or closely connected words.