LITERARY DEVICES
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- Q1What is a literary deviceA way to drive people crazyA tool used by writers to effectively convey their messageA tool used by writers to make their writing incomprehensibleA tool that can be used to fix a car30s
- Q2What is the name of the literary device that compares two things with the use of like or as?SimileMetaphorHyperbolePersonification30s
- Q3'The sun stare through the trees' is an example of what literary device.HyperbolePersonificationSimileMetaphor30s
- Q4What is the name of the literary device that has repeated initial consonant sounds?IronyMetaphoralliterationGerund30s
- Q5What is the name of the literary device where a word sounds like its meaning?OnomatopoeiaHyperboleIronyAlliteration30s
- Q6What two literary devices compares one thing to another?Simile and MetaphorPersonification and AlliterationSimile and PersonificationMetaphor and Alliteration30s
- Q7What literary device is used in the expression "Its raining cats and dogs".SimileHyperbolePersonificationMetaphor30s
- Q8The building is a white elephant. What literary device is used here?OnomatopoeiaSimileAlliterationMetaphor30s
- Q9The wicked witch of the West went on her way. What literary device is this an example of?AllegoryAlliterationAllusionAssonance30s
- Q10What is the name of the literary device where the writer uses words and phrases to create mental pictures in the reader's mind?ImageryAssonanceOnomatopoeiaMetaphor30s
- Q11"As light as a feather" is an example of what literary device?SimilePersonificationAlliterationMetaphor30s
- Q12"The warm and comforting fire" is an example of what literary device?SimilePersonificationMetaphorIrony30s
- Q13What literary device involves conveying a meaning that is different from the literal meaning or an expectation that is different from the reality?SimileMetaphorPunsIrony30s
- Q14What device is known for being a play with words, when the word is used to suggest two or more meanings?AlliterationIronyAssonancePuns30s
- Q15The repetition of sounds produced by vowels within a sentence or phrase is known as what literary device?IronyOnomatopoeiaAssonanceAlliteration30s