Literary Devices Quiz - OL

Writer's using diction (word choices) to paint a picture in the reader's mind about the plot, character, mood, etc.

• Metaphor

• Imagery

• Simile

• Hyperbole

Early clues about what will happen later in a piece of fiction.

• Irony

• Metaphor

• Symbolism

• Foreshadowing

A comparison without using like or as

• Simile

• Allusion

• Metaphor

• Personification

A difference between what is expected and reality.

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Irony

• Simile

The giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea.

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Simile

Something unexpected.

• Verbal Irony

• Imagery

• Situational Irony

• Dramatic Irony

The emotion felt while reading.

• Mood

• Irony

• Tone

• Imagery

Sarcasm or saying one thing and meaning another.

• situational Irony

• Imagery

• verbal Irony

• dramatic Irony

A reference to a person, place or literary, historical, artistic, mythological source or event that is commonly recognized.

• Diction

• Simile

• Allusion

• Metaphor

A phrase with figurative meaning. You cannot figure out the meaning by just looking at the words. You have to make an inference.

• Idiom

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole