Literary Devices Quiz

Which literary device involves the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words?

• Alliteration

• Consonance

• Onomatopoeia

• Assonance

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

What is the term for an expression that uses exaggeration for emphasis or effect?

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

Which of these is a figure of speech that compares two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'?

• Simile

• Oxymoron

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

What do we call the use of words that imitate the sounds they denote?

• Allusion

• Onomatopoeia

• Synecdoche

• Metonymy

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

Which literary device refers to a contradiction that, despite sound reasoning from true premises, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless?

• Epigraph

• Paradox

• Connotation

• Apostrophe

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

Which figure of speech involves a direct comparison between two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Oxymoron

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

What is the term for a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literary, or political significance?

• Allusion

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Diction

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Which literary device involves the repetition of vowel sounds within nearby words to create internal rhyming?

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the term for a figure of speech that combines two seemingly contradictory or opposite words for dramatic effect?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Oxymoron

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

Which literary device is often used to give objects or animals human-like abilities or characteristics?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A