Language Devices

Question 1

What is the name of the device where two or more consecutive words have the same first letter?

Answer 1

Alliteration.

Question 2

What is the name of the device that is used to give an object or creature human qualities?

Answer 2

Personification.

Question 3

What is the name of device that makes a figurative comparison with another thing?

Answer 3

Metaphor.

Question 4

What is the device that likens one thing to another?

Answer 4

Simile.

Question 5

What is the device that depicts sounds as words like “boom”?

Answer 5

Onomatopoeia.

Question 6

What is the device that is used to exaggerate the meaning of something?

Answer 6

Hyperbole.

Question 7

What is the device that uses a concept multiple times?

Answer 7

Repetition.

Question 8

What is the device that tries to put an emotive idea into the reader’s head?

Answer 8

Imagery.

Question 9

What is the name of the device putting opposing ideas in consecutive words?

Answer 9

Oxymoron.

Question 10

What is the name of the device opposing two themes or ideas throughout a novel or extract?

Answer 10

Juxtaposition.

Question 11

What is the name of the device where the same vowel sound is used between words but different consonants are used?

Answer 11

Assonance.

Question 12

What is the name of the device where a concept is brought to mind without being explicitly mentioned?

Answer 12

Allusion.

Question 13

What is the name of the device where the language used signifies the opposite of the surface meaning?

Answer 13

Irony.

Question 14

What is the name of the device where the audience knows a plot point that the protagonist does not?

Answer 14

Dramatic Irony.

Question 15

What is the name of the device where a theme is hinted early on in the text and is used later on?

Answer 15

Foreshadowing.

Question 16

What is the name of the device where the same words or phrases are used in different sentences?

Answer 16

Anaphora.

Question 17

What is the name of the device where words are made to sound similar?

Answer 17

Rhyme.

Question 18

What is the device where an idea is hinted at by using a less significant idea?

Answer 18

Euphemism.

Question 19

What is the name of the device where the same consonants are used in multiple words?

Answer 19

Literary consonance.

Question 20

What is the name of the device where informal language is used?

Answer 20

Colloquial language.

Question 21

What is the name of the device where the word order of a phrase is reversed?

Answer 21

Chiasmus.

Question 22

What is the name of the device describing the writer’s choice of words?

Answer 22

A lexical choice.

Question 23

What is the device name of the writer’s choice of meaning with words?

Answer 23

Semantic Field.

Question 24

What is the name of the device used to describe an ongoing action a character is doing?

Answer 24

A present participle verb.

Question 25

What is the name of the device used to describe an action that was ongoing in the past?

Answer 25

A past participle verb.

Question 26

What is the name of the device where objects are used to represent something?

Answer 26

Symbolism.

Question 27

What is the name of the device where an event or idea gets better and better or worse and worse?

Answer 27

A cumulative event.