Literary Devices

Question 1

Simile

Answer 1

a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid

Question 2

Metaphor

Answer 2

Life is a highway. Her eyes were diamonds. He is a shining star. The snow is a white blanket.

Question 3

Personfication

Answer 3

he attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

Question 4

Synecdoche

Answer 4

a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in Cleveland won by six runs

Question 5

Symbol

Answer 5

a mark or character used as a conventional representation of an object, function, or process, e.g. the letter or letters standing for a chemical element or a character in musical notation.

Question 6

Hyperbole

Answer 6

An extreme exaggeration

Question 7

allusion

Answer 7

an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
“an allusion to Shakespeare”

Question 8

Irony (verbal)

Question 9

Irony (situational)

Question 10

Irony (dramatic)

Question 11

apostrophe

Answer 11

apostrophe refers to a speech or address to a person who is not present or to a personified object

Question 12

paradox

Answer 12

A paradox is a rhetorical device that is made up of two opposite things and seems impossible or untrue but is actually possible or true

Question 13

diction

Answer 13

word choice

Question 14

polysyndeton

Answer 14

repetition of conjunctions in close succession (as in we have ships and men and money)

Question 15

asyndeton

Answer 15

It is a sentence containing a series of words or clauses in close succession, linked without the use of conjunctions

Question 16

pun

Answer 16

a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings.

Question 17

oxymoron

Answer 17

a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g. faith unfaithful kept him falsely true ).

Question 18

chiasmus

Answer 18

a rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form; e.g. ‘Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.’.

Question 19

Paradox

Answer 19

A paradox is a rhetorical device that is made up of two opposite things and seems impossible or untrue but is actually possible or true

Question 20

fable