Literary Devices Quiz

Which literary device is being used in the following sentence: 'Her eyes were as bright as the stars'?

• personification

• simile

• hyperbole

• metaphor

Which literary device is being used in the following sentence: 'The wind whispered through the trees'?

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Which literary device is being used in the following sentence: 'I've told you a million times'?

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Which literary device is being used in the following sentence: 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers'?

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

Which literary device is being used in the following sentence: 'The buzzing bee flew past my ear'?

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

What is a figure of speech that compares two things using 'like' or 'as'?

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

• hyperbole

What is a figure of speech that gives human qualities to non-human things?

• simile

• anthropomorphism

• metaphor

• personification

What is a figure of speech that exaggerates for emphasis or dramatic effect?

• understatement

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• overstatement

What is a figure of speech that repeats the same sound at the beginning of nearby words?

• alliteration

• simile

• metaphor

• rhyme

What is a figure of speech that uses words that imitate the sound they represent?

• hyperbole

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor