Literary Devices and Figurative Language Quiz

In Ava's literature class, she came across a passage that mentioned the 'Trojan Horse' as a strategy in a modern business context. This literary device is a reference to a well-known person, place, thing or event of historical, cultural or literary merit. It requires the audience to use their background knowledge to understand the meaning.

• Alliteration

• Allegory

• Allusion

• Paradox

Elijah was reading a comic book and noticed a word that sounded like the sound it described, such as 'buzz' for a bee. What literary device is this?

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Idiom

• Oxymoron

Lily was trying to understand a phrase that uses a message different from its literal meaning and is often culturally specific and has been accepted as common use. Which literary device is this?

• Allusion

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

Avery said, "Life is a journey." Which literary device is Avery using to compare life to a journey without using "like" or "as"?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Allusion

• Idiom

Liam was so hungry he said he could eat a horse. What literary device is being used here?

• Onomatopoeia

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

Ethan noticed that the wind whispered secrets through the trees, a literary device in which human characteristics are given to non-living objects or animals.

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Idiom

Avery and Mason were discussing their favorite jokes. Avery said, 'I love jokes that are a play on words. They exploit the different meanings of a word or its homonyms, usually to humorous effect.' What literary device is Avery referring to?

• Paradox

• Allegory

• Allusion

• Pun

During a poetry reading, Anika noticed a literary device that involved the repetition of consonant sounds. What is this device called?

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Pun

• Consonance

Maya was reading a book where the author used a literary device to describe a 'deafening silence' in the forest. This device uses two opposite ideas to create an effective description. The format is often an adjective proceeded by a noun.

• Oxymoron

• Character Foil

• Juxtaposition

• Paradox

Maya is writing a poem and wants to use a literary device that does not involve figures of speech, rather, it is a sound device that layers some additional meaning on top of the literal language of the text.

• Consonance

• Alliteration

• Diction

• Assonance