Literary devices

Question 1

Metaphor

Answer 1

Compare objects by directly identifying one thing as another

Question 2

Simile

Answer 2

Compares two things using the words “like” or “as”

Question 3

A contradiction or dilemma

Answer 3

Paradox

Question 4

A statement that means the opposite of what it seems to mean

Answer 4

Irony

Question 5

Repetition of sounds (Consonants)

Answer 5

Alliteration

Question 6

A type of personification where emotions are given to a setting, an object or the weather

Answer 6

Pathetic fallacy

Question 7

Direct address

Answer 7

Saying words such as you and we

Question 8

Hyperbole

Answer 8

Exaggeration

Question 9

Repetition of words at the beginning of a group of clauses or phrases

Answer 9

Anaphora

Question 10

Setting

Answer 10

Time and place of the action of the story.

Question 11

Characterisation

Answer 11

Refers to the methods that writer used to develop characters.

Question 12

A word or phrase used more than once to emphasize an idea.

Answer 12

Repetition

Question 13

Plot

Answer 13

Refers to the actions and events in a literary work.

Question 14

Tragedy

Answer 14

A genre where the protagonist dies in the end

Question 15

The central idea of a literary work.

Answer 15

Theme

Question 16

Foreshadowing

Answer 16

Like the banners mentioned earlier on in the novel Macbeth it is for shown and will happen later in the story

Question 17

Imagery

Answer 17

Anything that affects or appeals to the reader’s five senses.

Question 18

Rhetorical Question

Answer 18

A question with an obvious answer or no answer at all

Question 19

Soliloquy

Answer 19

A character’s speech to the audience, in which emotion and ideas are revealed.

Question 20

Groups of three

Answer 20

A list of three words that link to the subject