Mastering Literary Devices

What literary device involves giving human traits to non-human things?

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Simile

Identify the device used in the phrase 'the wind whispered through the trees'.

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

What is the term for a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• analogy

• simile

Which literary device is characterized by an exaggerated statement?

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Metaphor

What do we call a recurring theme or idea in a literary work?

• theme

• motif

• symbol

• allegory

Identify the device used in 'the calm before the storm'.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

What is the term for a reference to another work of literature or historical event?

• Allusion

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Paradox

Which device involves the use of contradictory terms in a phrase?

• Paradox

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

What literary device is used when the audience knows something that the characters do not?

• Dramatic irony

• Situational irony

• Verbal irony

• Metaphor

Identify the device used in 'time is a thief'.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Personification