Literary Devices

Question 1

Repetition of vowel sounds in nonrhyming stressed syllables

Answer 1

Assonance

Question 2

Repetition of consonant sounds in nonrhyming stressed syllables

Answer 2

Consonance

Question 3

Consecutive words starting with the same sound

Answer 3

Alliteration

Question 4

The same word or phrase repeated multiple times in any given place

Answer 4

Repetition

Question 5

The repeating of a word or phrase at the beginning of lines of poetry

Answer 5

Anaphora

Question 6

Commonly used phrases that don’t always make sense literally

Answer 6

Idiom

Question 7

This paints a picture of the author’s message in your brain

Answer 7

Imagery

Question 8

Comparison of two things without like/as

Answer 8

Metaphor

Question 9

Comparison of two things with like/as

Answer 9

Simile

Question 10

A good way to talk about something bad

Answer 10

Euphemism

Question 11

Giving humanlike traits to non human things

Answer 11

Personification

Question 12

Boom! Pow! Crash!

Answer 12

Onomatopoeia

Question 13

An extreme exaggeration

Answer 13

Hyperbole

Question 14

Two contradicting words used together

Answer 14

Oxymoron

Question 15

Two words that have the same pronunciation but different meanings

Answer 15

Homophone