QUIZS: 🔍Literary Devices

A word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another and is not meant

to be understood as literally true

• Alliteration

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Figure of Speech

A comparison between two unlike things using words such as like, as, resembles or than

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Allusion

• Personification

Language that appeals to the senses of sight, sound, smell, touch and/or taste

• Imagery

• Author's Style

• Dramatic Irony

• Diction

The attitude a writer takes toward his or her subject, characters, and audience

• Diction

• Verbal Irony

• Tone

• Symbol

An object or animal spoken of as if it has human feelings, thoughts or attitude

• Alliteration

• Idiom

• Personification

• Simile

An imaginative comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is

said to be another thing

• Analogy

• Simile

• Allusion

• Metaphor

An expression peculiar to a particular language that means something different

from the literal meaning of the words

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Personification

The use of words whose sounds imitate or suggest their meaning

• Figure of Speech

• Analogy

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

The repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close together

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Onomatopeia

A reference to a statement, a person, place, or an event from literature, the arts,

history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, science, or pop culture

• Analogy

• Allusion

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile