Literary Devices Flashcards
Identify this literary device: My body is a temple and I’m the one it was built for
Metaphor
Name the literary device: You are as pretty as a rose
Simile
Name the literary device: brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance
allusion
Name the literary device: repeating the same words or phrases a few times at the beginning of the lines
Anaphora
Identify this literary device: The White House made an important decision.
Metonymy
Identify this literary device: He asked for her hand
Synechdoche
Identify this literary device: He ate a million hot dogs before he went to bed.
Hyperbole
Identify the literary device: Lightning danced across the sky
Personnification
Identify this literary device: I am a nobody
Paradox
Identify this literary device: Pow! Pow!
Onomatopoeia
Identify the literary device: understatement using double negation
litote
Name the literary device: two terms that contradict each other.
Oxymoron
Name the literary device: Repetition of a word, or an expression at the beginning of many verses.
Anaphora
Name the literary device: Indirect expression that is used in place of one that may be offensive; political way to say something.
Euphemism
Name the literary device: Frozen silence.
Synesthesia
