EC REVIEW LITERARY DEVICES

A literary device that expresses over exaggeration to create greater size or significance.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• alliteration

A literary device that compares two unlike things without using like or as.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• alliteration

A literary device which shows repetition of the beginning consonant

sound in near words.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• alliteration

A literary device that shows comparison of two unlike things using

'like' or 'as'.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• alliteration

A literary device that uses words or images to symbolize specific concepts, people, objects, or events.

• paradox

• symbolism

• onomatopoeia

• imagery

A literary device that shows description using the five senses sight,

sound, smell, taste, touch.

• paradox

• onomatopoeia

• symbolism

• imagery

A literary device with contrasting and contradictory elements that reveal a deeper truth.

• paradox

• onomatopoeai

• symbolism

• imagery

A literary device in which a word imitates the sound associated with an action or an object.

• paradox

• onomatopoeia

• symbolism

• imagery

0. A literary device that gives human attributes, characteristics or abilities to nonhuman things.

• personification

• metaphor

• imagery

• hyperbole

0. What literary device is used in the sentence below?

2. “The sweet smell of chocolate wafted through kitchen as I carefully removed my freshly-baked cookies from the oven.”

• personification

• metaphor

• imagery

• hyperbole