Literary Terms Worksheet

A moment of sudden realization

• Blank verse

• Allegory

• Idiom

• Epiphany

“I’m so hungry, I could eat a horse.”

• Connotation

• Idiom

• Pun

• Satire

The American flag is a _______ for liberty, freedom, and democracy.

• Refrain

• Soliloquy

• Metaphor

• Symbol

Placing two elements side by side to present a comparison or contrast.

• Paradox

• Juxtaposition

• Simile

• Enjambment

The dog says, "bark!" The underlined word is a(n)…

• Pun

• Onomatopoeia

• Oxymoron

• Analogy

A pilot has a fear of heights.

• Refrain

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Irony

“My alarm clock yells at me to get out of bed every morning.”

• Personification

• Tone

• Idiom

• Assonance

A reference to a previous great work or to history.

• Allegory

• Allusion

• Connotation

• Foreshadowing

To indicate, suggest, or hint at something’s occurrence before it actually happens.

• Anaphora

• Imagery

• Rhetorical

• Foreshadowing

"Romeo take me somewhere we can be alone" (Love Story by Taylor Swift) This song makes use of:

• Paradox

• Literary allusion

• Metaphor

• Irony