Literary devices

Question 1

alliteration

Answer 1

when initial consonant sounds in neighboring words repeat

Question 2

allusion

Answer 2

a reference to an historical event or another literary work

Question 3

anthropomorphism

Answer 3

when something that isn’t human becomes human.

Question 4

assonance

Answer 4

when vowel sounds in neighboring words repeat.

Question 5

cliché

Answer 5

a phrase that is overuse and lacks creative thought.

Question 6

connotation

Answer 6

implied meaning of a work by what’s suggested by a word

Question 7

consonance

Answer 7

repetition of final consonant sounds in neighboring words.

Question 8

denotation

Answer 8

the dictionary definition of a word.

Question 9

flashback

Answer 9

when old events become related after later events.

Question 10

foreshadowing

Answer 10

hinting things to come in a story

Question 11

hyperbole

Answer 11

great exaggeration used for rhetorical effect

Question 12

hypophora

Answer 12

a question is asked and then immediately answered.

Question 13

imagery

Answer 13

term used to describe an author’s visual images or sounds

Question 14

juxtaposition

Answer 14

the act of setting something side by side

Question 15

metaphor

Answer 15

a comparison of two unlike objects

Question 16

mood

Answer 16

the emotional response that a work creates

Question 17

onomatopoeia

Answer 17

the use of words that imitate the sound they refer to

Question 18

ontogenetic metaphor

Answer 18

when a character goes through stages in the life cycle.

Question 19

oxymoron

Answer 19

when two contradictory words as juxtaposed

Question 20

paradox

Answer 20

a statement that seems contradictory but is true

Question 21

parallelism

Answer 21

a similar repeated grammatical structure

Question 22

personification

Answer 22

when objects or animals are given human traits.

Question 23

rhetoric

Answer 23

the art of writing or speaking persuasively

Question 24

rhetorical question

Answer 24

a question asked for effect rather than to get an answer

Question 25

sarcasm

Answer 25

It is the use of irony to show contempt.

Question 26

simile

Answer 26

a comparison using like or as

Question 27

tricolon

Answer 27

a rhetorical device that uses three items

Question 28

understatement

Answer 28

when a writer minimizes the importance of something