Units 1-2 Literary Devices Review

What is the repetition of the same sound at the beginning of multiple words called?

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Juxtaposition

Which term describes comparing two or more things by highlighting their differences?

• Contrast

• Rhyme

• Tone

• Theme

What is the writer's purposeful selection and choice of words to create meaning known as?

• Diction

• Imagery

• Personification

• Repetition

Which literary device uses words to appeal to the reader’s five senses and create mental images?

• Juxtaposition

• Imagery

• Shift

• Rhyme Scheme

What is it called when two or more things are placed side by side to see how they are similar and/or different?

• Metaphor

• Juxtaposition

• Simile

• Theme

Which term describes a comparison that does not use the words like or as?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration

What gives human characteristics to nonhuman things?

• Personification

• Repetition

• Diction

• Tone

What is the term for repeating words or phrases multiple times across a text?

• Rhyme

• Repetition

• Shift

• Contrast

What are words that share the same sounds in the last stressed syllable called?

• Rhyme

• Alliteration

• Juxtaposition

• Imagery

What is the pattern of lines that rhyme with other lines in a stanza or poem known as?

• Theme

• Rhyme Scheme

• Tone

• Metaphor