Literary Devices Quiz
____ 1. Simile
____ 2. Metaphor
____ 3. Personification
____4. Alliteration
____ 5. Assonance
____6. Onomatopoeia
____ 7. Allegory
____8. Allusion
____ 9.Conflict
____10.Climax
____ 11.Foreshadowing
____12.Hyperbole
____13. Pun
____ 14. Imagery
____ 15. Paradox
____ 16. Symbolism
____ 17. Oxymoron
____ 18. Analogy
____ 19. Situational Irony
____ 20. Dramatic Irony
____21. Verbal Irony
____ 22. Idiom
____23. Connotation
____24. Theme
____25. Antagonist
____26. Denotation
A. The point at which the action in the story or play
reaches its emotional peak.
B. The use of one thing to represent another. Something
that stands for something else.
C. An expression whose meaning is not predictable from
the usual meanings of its constituent elements.
D. “Flash with a rash gimme my cash flickin my ash Runnin
with my money, son, go out with a blast.”
E. Horses are to past societies as computers are to future
societies.
F. The event or outcome of events opposite to what was
or might naturally have been expected.
G. A technique in which an author gives clues about
something that will happen later in the story.
H. The use of a word in a way that plays on its different
meanings.
I. The central idea of a piece of literature.
J. “The girl was a fish in the water”
K. “I’m so hungry; I could eat a horse right now.”
L. A story which has meaning on both the literal and
figurative or moral level.
M. “The swiftest traveler is he that goes afoot.”
N. The dictionary definition of a word.
O. Man vs Society, Man vs Man, Man vs Nature, Man vs
Self
P. Indirect casual reference to another’s work.
Q. Repetition of the first consonant.
R. This is when one of the characters is unaware of
important information that the audience is made aware
of.
S. Cold hotdog.
T. Words that are sounds
U. To compare something that is not human as if it had
human characteristics.
V. Sarcasm. The speaker says one thing while meaning
another.
W. A way of describing something by comparing it with
something else using “like” or “as.”
X. The use of description that helps the reader imagine
how something looks, sounds feels, smells, or tastes.
Y. The meaning associated with a word.
Z. The villain of a story, the person or thing working in
opposition to the protagonist