Literary Devices Examples

What writing technique appeals to the five senses?

• hyperbole

• irony

• theme

• imagery

What device is "extravagant exaggeration?"

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

• fate

• paradox

A humorous play on words that have double-meanings.

• alliteration

• oxymoron

• pun

• onomatopoeia

What is the word for two characters with opposite traits that balance each other?

• antagonists

• pairs

• foils

• protagonists

A __________ is a recurrent element or pattern of imagery or symbols

• theme

• mood

• allusion

• motif

What term means " the act or an instance of repeating or being repeated"?

• alliteration

• metaphor

• repetition

• oxymoron

This is a pattern or repeated feature of literature throughout history.

• allusion

• archetype

• alliteration

• aluminum

Splash! Boom! Bang! Whoosh!

• Imagery

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

“The sun smiled down on us” is an example of which of the following literary devices

• Setting

• Personification

• Simile

• Symbolism

I'm so hungry I could eat a horse" is an example of

• hyperbole

• anaphora

• simile

• pun