Literary Devices and Poetic Elements

Which literary device is used when a word imitates the sound it represents?

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Assonance

• Consonance

What is the term for a reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art?

• Allegory

• Allusion

• Analogy

• Metaphor

Which of the following best describes the repetition of consonant sounds at the end of words or within words?

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Onomatopoeia

Identify the literary device: "The wind whispered through the dark, empty trees."

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

What is the term for an exaggerated statement or claim not meant to be taken literally?

• Irony

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Pun

Which literary device involves the use of words that have the same or very similar vowel sounds near one another?

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Onomatopoeia

What is the term for a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction?

• Irony

• Hyperbole

• Paradox

• Pun

Which of the following best describes a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one?

• Allegory

• Allusion

• Analogy

• Metaphor

In poetry, what is the term for a group of lines that are set apart from others by a space?

• Verse

• Stanza

• Rhyme Scheme

• Imagery

Which literary device is used when an author describes one thing in terms of another, using a comparison without the words "like" or "as"?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Analogy

• Allegory