Class Literature

A comparison of two things, often using the words "like" or "as".

• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• hyperbole

Giving human characteristics to objects and phenomena.

• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• hyperbole

The repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of words or in a stressed syllable.

• alliteration
• assonance
• oxymoron
• pun

A phrase which contains words that seem to contradict one another.

• alliteration
• assonance
• oxymoron
• pun

The use of words that imitate the sounds they describe.

• alliteration
• assonance
• onomatopoeia
• pun

Where the true meaning behind a statement is intentionally quite the opposite of its literal meaning.

• pun
• hyperbole
• irony
• simile

The setting is ... in which the story takes place.

• the time
• the place
• the time and the place
• the climax event

The ... is what happens in the story.

• script
• plot
• climax event
• exposition

Which kind of narrator is recounting the story? "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again..."

• first-person
• second-person
• third-person
• limited

A narrative passage that takes the reader backwards in time.

• flashforward

• flashback

• foreshadowing

• allusion