Literary Devices

Question 0

Adjective

Answer 0

Describes a noun like a color, shape, or size.

They tell: what kind, which one, how many.

Question 1

Characterization

Answer 1

Social
Episodic
Emotional 
Mental
Physical

Question 2

Similes

Answer 2

Using like or as to compare different objects

Question 3

Metaphor

Answer 3

Comparing things to other things without using like or as

Question 4

Semantic sophistication

Answer 4

High level terms

Question 5

Grammatical perfection

Answer 5

Perfect sentence structure, punctuation and spelling

Question 6

Alliteration

Answer 6

Using the initial sounds in close proximity.

Ex: She sells sea shells

Question 7

Personification

Answer 7

Speaking of non-living things as living things

Ex: The icy winds howled in the night.

Question 8

Imagery

Answer 8

Using words that appeal to any of the five senses:
taste 
touch 
sight 
smell 
hearing

Question 9

Sentence Length Variation (SLV)

Answer 9

Using short, medium, & long sentences purposely for effect.

Question 10

Repetition

Answer 10

Purposely saying the same thing or delivering the same message for dramatic effect

Ex: His angry eyes burned like crimson flames. They shone red like the molten rocks of torment.

Question 11

Dialect

Answer 11

Using the vernacular or style of speech of a certain group of people.

Question 12

Inversion

Answer 12

Reversing the natural flow of subjects, verbs, & phrasing

Ex: Rick walked into the room. VS Into the room Rick walked.

Question 13

Hyperbole

Answer 13

Exaggerating deliberately to make a point

Ex: This basement is as cold as the arctic, my fingers are as stiff as stones.

Question 14

Onomatopoeia

Answer 14

When the pronouncing of a word of word group produces its associated sound.

Ex: Only supper bells, ring ding ding got their attention.

Question 15

Point of view

Answer 15

First second or third person or the perspective of a certain character that’s telling the story.

Question 16

Irony

Answer 16

When the opposite,or least likely event happens it’s said to be an ironic event.

Question 17

Flashback

Answer 17

Taking the audience to a point of time that has already passed in the story

Question 18

Foreshadow

Answer 18

To give a clue or shadowy before-image of something that is going to happen later in the story

Question 19

Setting

Answer 19

The time and place where the story happens

Question 20

Metamorphosis

Answer 20

The changing of one distinct entity into an all together different one

Ex: Scott’s brown eyes began to redden.