Literary Devices

Question 1

metaphor?

Answer 1

comparison achieved through a figurative use of words

Question 2

simile?

Answer 2

explicit comparison between two things using ‘like’ or ‘as’.

Question 3

personnification?

Answer 3

the attribution of sentient-like traits to an idea/object/.

Question 4

Anaphora

Answer 4

the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases

Question 5

hyperbole?

Answer 5

strong exaggeration for emphasis or for rhetorical effect

Question 7

difference between oxymoron, paradox and antithesis

Answer 7

question a lexam

Question 8

allusion?

Answer 8

reference to a person, place, or event–real or fictional.

Question 9

antithesis?

Answer 9

opposition, or contrast of ideas or words

Question 11

oxymoron?

Answer 11

apparent paradox achieved by the juxtaposition of words which contradict one another

Question 12

sibilance

Answer 12

the repetition of the ‘s’ and the ‘sh’ sounds within several words in a sequence

Question 13

alliteration?

Answer 13

repetition of the initial consonant in sequence beginning several words

Question 15

antistrophe?

Answer 15

repetition of the same word or phrase at the end of successive phrases

Question 16

climax?

Answer 16

arrangement of words or phrases in an order of ascending power.

Question 19

paradox

Answer 19

a superficial contradiction of ideas