Literature quiz - literary devices

Question 1

what is a simile?

Answer 1

a simile is a comparison using “like” or “as”

Question 2

What is a metaphor?

Answer 2

A metaphor is when you compare 2 ideas or objects without using “like” or “as”

Question 3

What is a Hyberbole?

Answer 3

an exaggeration

Question 4

What is personification?

Answer 4

personification is giving human action to a nonhuman thing

Question 5

what is anthropomorphism?

Answer 5

giving physical human traits to nonhuman things

Question 6

what is dramatic irony?

Answer 6

when the audience knows something the characters don’t

Question 7

what is foreshadowing?

Answer 7

foreshadowing is when the author hints at something that is yet to come

Question 8

What is irony?

Answer 8

when the intended meaning of the statement is opposite from what was said

Question 9

what is an Onomatopoeia?

Answer 9

a word that spelled like the sound it describes

Question 10

what is paradox?

Answer 10

a figure of speak that seems to contradict itself but has some truth