Literary Devices Quiz

The fluency, rhythm and liveliness in writing that makes it unique to the writer.

• conclusion

• style

• voice

The attitude of the author toward the audience and characters.

• voice

• mood

• tone

The use of a word or phrase to mean the exact opposite of its literal or usual meaning.

• irony

• idiom

• flashback

The general atmosphere created by the author’s words.

• voice

• mood

• tone

A group of letters that can be placed before a word to change its meaning.

• prefix

• affix

• suffix

The repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.

• rhythm

• meter

• rhyme

To tell about and recognize the differences between two or more items.

• differentiate

• summarize

• describe

An argument that is in opposition to the claim/position provided in a piece of argumentative writing.

• thesis

• counterclaim

A device used in literature to give you a clue of something that will happen later in a story.

• foreshadowing

• literary device

• flashback

Information from the reading that identifies a word or group of words.

• fluency

• context clues

• inference