Literary Devices

"Polly Pocket picked a purple plant" is an example of:

• alliteration

• contrast

• simile

• personification

The contrast between what the character thinks to be true and what we (the reader) know to be true...

• dramatic irony

• situational irony

• verbal irony

The contrast between what happens and what was expected

• situational irony

• dramatic irony

• verbal irony

An extreme exaggeration is called a

• allusion

• hyperbole

• simile

• oxymoron

An expression that cannot be understood from the literal meaning of its words

• denotative

• juxtaposition

• irony

• idiom

A factual, primary or less emotional description or word

• simile

• metaphor

• denotative

• personification

The reader knows what the characters are thinking, saying and doing. ("God-like")

• first person

• second person

• third person

• omniscient

"Military intelligence" and "jumbo shrimp" are examples of:

• similes

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• oxymoron

The contrast between what is said and what is meant is called

• situational irony

• verbal irony

• dramatic irony

A well-painted mental image is called:

• metaphor

• oxymoron

• hyperbole

• imagery