Literary Terms Pretest

What is the definition of alliteration?

• a) A huge exaggeration

• b) Giving an animal human-like qualities

• c) The repetition of similar sounds at the beginning of words

• d) Two words that sound alike, but have different meanings

Definition: comparing things using "like" or "as"

• metaphor

• simile

• similar

• hyperbole

Definition: comparing two things NOT using "like" or "as"

• simile

• imagery

• metaphor

• metamorph

Definition: giving human qualities to nonhuman things

• humanification

• hyperbole

• personification

• oxymoron

Definition: an exaggerated statement used to create an emphasis

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

• imagery

• idiom

Definition: a word that resembles the sound it represents

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• oxymoron

Definition: a phrase that combines two words that are opposite

• oxymoron

• oxygen

• idiom

• hyperbole

A scene in a movie or novel set in a time earlier than the main story is what?

• flashback
• imagery
• alliteration
• onomatpoeia

Hints or clues used by the author to tell what will happen later in the book is a device known as:

• flashback
• simile
• mood
• foreshadowing

time and place the story takes place
Ex. Salinas River, 1930s; "A few miles south of Soledad."

• setting
• plot
• imagery
• exposition