Literary Devices Quiz

Continuing a sentence or phrase across a line break.

• Enjambment

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Oxymoron

Extended and vivid description of a scene or work of art.

• Hyperbaton

• Alliteration

• Hendiatrys

• Ecphrasis

Definition: ABBA word order.

• Metonymy

• Chiasmus

• Simile

• Antithesis

Definition: Juxtaposition of contrasting ideas.

• Chiasmus

• Antithesis

• Anaphora

• Simile

A direct comparison without using "like" or "as."

• Litotes

• Anaphora

• Metonymy

• Metaphor

Substitution of one word for another that it suggests.

• Metonymy

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

Interlocking word order, often ABAB.

• Synchysis

• Synecdoche

• Litotes

• Chiasmus

Asking a question to make a point rather than to elicit an answer.

• Rhetorical Question

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

Use of words whose sound suggests their meaning.

• Metonymy

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

Disruption of normal word order for emphasis.

• Oxymoron

• Asyndeton

• Hyperbaton

• Hyperbole