Rhetoric and Figurative Language

Which literary device is used to give human qualities to non-human things?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

What is the literary device that exaggerates or overstates for emphasis?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

What literary device is used when a writer uses a play on words for humorous effect?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Pun

What literary device is used when a writer compares two things using 'like' or 'as'?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Which literary device is used when a writer imitates natural sounds in the text?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

What is the literary device that refers to a figure of speech that makes a reference to a place, person, or event?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Allusion

Identify the literary device used in the sentence: 'The wind whispered through the trees.'

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Which literary device is used when two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect?

• Anaphora

• Antithesis

• Parallelism

• Simile

An implied comparison between two unlike things that have something important in common

• simile

• metaphor

• allusion

• onomatopoeia

A device where the speaker refers to something that the reader needs prior knowledge of or experience with in order to understand.

• apostrophe

• allusion

• allegory

• antonym