Literary Devices Quiz

A reference to Einstein is what kind of allusion?

• historical

• mythical

• Biblical

• archetypal

A clock in a play about Julius Caesar would be considered a/an

Which type of irony is this: the audience realizes that someone is about to get killed in a scary movie but the character does not?

• dramatic

• verbal

• situational

• cosmic

Which type(s) of figurative language and poetic devices were popular in Anglo Saxon poetry like Beowulf?

• kennings

• metaphors

• alliteration

• all of the above

A metaphor that is not explicit is called

• dead

• extended

• inferred

• vehicle / tenor

This literary device uses a part to represent the whole: Nice set of wheels, dude!

A/an _______ is an idea or symbol that occurs throughout the text.

• motif

• extended metaphor

• symbol

• metonymy

Unlike personification, this technique is used when animals speak.

All of the following are types of satire EXCEPT

• dramatic

• verbal

• productive

• situational

Match the term to its definition.

• repetition of initial sounds

• assonance

• repetition of consonant sounds

• consonance

• repetition of sh or th

• alliteration

• repetition of vowel sounds

• sigmatism