Literary Devices Quiz

What is the literary device that uses characters or story elements to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning?

• Allegory

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Ambiguity

Which literary device involves the repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighboring words?

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Analogy

• Anaphora

What is a direct or indirect reference to something commonly known, such as an event, book, or work of art?

• Ambiguity

• Analogy

• Allusion

• Aphorism

Which term describes the multiple meanings of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage?

• Ambiguity

• Antithesis

• Apostrophe

• Atmosphere

What is the term for a similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them?

• Anaphora

• Analogy

• Aphorism

• Caricature

Which literary device involves the exact repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive lines or sentences?

• Anaphora

• Antithesis

• Apostrophe

• Atmosphere

What is the term for the word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun?

• Antithesis

• Antecedent

• Aphorism

• Apostrophe

Which term describes the syntactic strategy in which two contrasting ideas are intentionally juxtaposed in the structure of a sentence through parallel structure?

• Aphorism

• Antithesis

• Atmosphere

• Caricature

What is a terse statement of known authorship that expresses a general truth or moral principle?

• Apostrophe

• Aphorism

• Allegory

• Alliteration

Which figure of speech directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction?

• Apostrophe

• Atmosphere

• Anaphora

• Antithesis