Language and Literary Devices
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- Q1What is the literary device used to create a contrast between two opposite ideas?MetaphorHyperboleOxymoronAlliteration30s
- Q2What is the literary device used to give human qualities to inanimate objects or abstract ideas?PersonificationOnomatopoeiaIronySimile30s
- Q3In literature, what is the term used to describe the repetition of sounds at the beginning of words in a sentence or phrase?HyperboleMetaphorOnomatopoeiaAlliteration30s
- Q4What is the literary device used to make a comparison between two different things using 'like' or 'as'?MetaphorSimileHyperboleAlliteration30s
- Q5What is the literary device used to express ideas or concepts through exaggerated statements?SimileHyperbolePersonificationMetaphor30s
- Q6What is the literary device used to imply or suggest a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation of a word?MetaphorAlliterationPersonificationHyperbole30s
- Q7What is the literary device that involves the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences?AlliterationOnomatopoeiaHyperboleAnaphora30s
- Q8What is the literary device used when a part represents the whole or vice versa?IronySimileHyperboleMetonymy30s
- Q9What is the term for a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is used in a way that is different from its usual or literal meaning?Rhetorical questionSymbolismLiteral languageFigurative language30s
- Q10What is the term for a figure of speech that involves an intentional contradiction or opposition of ideas within a phrase or sentence?HyperboleOnomatopoeiaSimileAntithesis30s
- Q11What is a simile?A figure of speech comparing two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'A figure of speech that uses exaggeration for emphasisA figure of speech that directly compares two unlike thingsA figure of speech that gives human characteristics to non-human things30s
- Q12What is the definition of alliteration?The repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses.The use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.The comparison of two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'.The occurrence of the same sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.The use of exaggeration for emphasis.30s
- Q13What is the definition of personification?The comparison of two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'.The use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.A figure of speech that compares two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'.A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is given human characteristics or qualities.The repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses.30s
- Q14What is an example of a simile?She was as fast as a cheetah.She ran like a cheetah.She was very fast.She ran quickly.30s
- Q15What is an example of personification?The river flowed gently down the hill.The wind whispered through the trees.The sun shone brightly in the sky.The trees stood tall and strong.30s