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Literary devices

Quiz by Thomas Lucker

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  • Q1
    What literary device is used when a writer gives human qualities to animals, objects, or ideas?
    Simile
    Personification
    Hyperbole
    Metaphor
    30s
  • Q2
    In literature, what literary device is used to create a contrast between what is expected to happen and what actually occurs?
    Foreshadowing
    Irony
    Onomatopoeia
    Alliteration
    30s
  • Q3
    Which literary device is used to hint at what is to come later in a story?
    Hyperbole
    Foreshadowing
    Personification
    Alliteration
    30s
  • Q4
    What literary device involves the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words within a sentence or phrase?
    Metaphor
    Simile
    Alliteration
    Onomatopoeia
    30s
  • Q5
    Which literary device involves the use of exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally?
    Personification
    Irony
    Hyperbole
    Foreshadowing
    30s
  • Q6
    In literature, what is the literary device where one thing is compared to another by using the words 'like' or 'as'?
    Metaphor
    Onomatopoeia
    Alliteration
    Simile
    30s
  • Q7
    Which literary device involves the use of words that imitate the sound they describe?
    Personification
    Hyperbole
    Irony
    Onomatopoeia
    30s
  • Q8
    What literary device involves the repetition of the same sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words?
    Personification
    Metaphor
    Simile
    Alliteration
    30s
  • Q9
    Which literary device is used to create a sense of rhythm and musicality through the repetition of similar sounds at the end of words?
    Repetition
    Rhyme
    Assonance
    Consonance
    30s
  • Q10

    “Dumb as a sack of hammers” is an example of

    Personification

    Metaphor

    Simile

    Allusion

    30s
  • Q11

    “Five feisty founders fought furiously” is an example of 

    Something stupid Adam would say

    Analogy

    Alliteration

    Personification

    30s
  • Q12

    "Jayden is a rocket ship"

    Metaphor

    a lie

    Simile

    Assonance

    30s
  • Q13

    Imagery uses

    Sound

    Smell and Touch

    Sight

    All of these

    30s
  • Q14

    An object, concept, or word does not have to be limited to a single meaning.   Like a rose = love

    symbolism

    metaphorism

    johnnyism

    idontknow-ism

    30s

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