Literary Devices Quiz

Match the following

• Comparison using "like" or "as"

• metaphor

• Comparison of 2 unlike things

• simile

• words that imitate a sound

• onomatopoeia

• Words with repeated consonant sounds

• hyperbole

• An exaggeration

• alliteration

Match the following

• Inanimate objects with human qualities

• personification

• A description involving the 5 senses

• imagery

• Opposite words combined for new meanings

• idiom

• Phrase that wouldn't usually make sense

• oxymoron

Name the device used in the following example: Ann is a walking encyclopedia.​ (a)  

• Metaphor
• hyperbole
• idiom

Name the device used in the following example: You'll catch a cold that way.​ (a)  

• idiom
• alliteration
• oxymoron

Name the device used in the following example: The wind moaned outside the window.​ (a)  

• personification
• simile
• onomatopoeia

Name the device used in the following example: Henry waddled like a duck as he walked onto the field.

• imagery

• oxymoron

• simile

• hyperbole

Name the device used in the following example: Six silly sisters all saw the swan.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

Name the device used in the following example: "Meow", the cat announced as he entered the room.

• personification

• idiom

• oxymoron

• hyperbole

Name the device used in the following example: I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse.

• hyperbole

• idiom

• oxymoron

• personification

Name the device used in the following example: The dark night seemed to whisper its secrets to the forest people.

• imagery

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• alliteration