Literary Terms and Author's Craft Practice

The following quotations features figurative language:
‘Ah, William, we’re weary of weather,
said the sunflowers, shining with dew.
Our traveling habits have tired us.
Can you give us a room with a view?”

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• onomatopoeia

The following sentence contains which literary device:
“Jimmy Smith was moving through the room like an enormous trained mole collecting the empty cans."

• oxymoron
• hyperbole
• simile
• metaphor

CRASH!  Batman slammed the batmobile into the wall.

• onomatopoeia
• simile
• personification
• alliteration

The leaves danced and twirled in the wind.

• simile
• alliteration
• onomatopoeia
• personification

Fluffly flowers floated and flew in Florida.

• simile
• alliteration
• onomatopoeia
• imagery

Which part of the plot line represents the setting?

• Rising action
• Falling action
• Exposition
• Climax

Katy Perry:

"Baby, you're a firework;

Come on let your colors burst"

• allusion, irony
• metaphor, imagery
• simile, imagery
• personification, allusion

Events that occur in a story that build up to the climax.

• Falling Action
• Rising Action
• Exposition
• Resolution

Language not intended to be interpreted in a literal sense; it consists of figures of speech

• flashback
• hyperbole
• figurative language
• sensory language

Which of the following is an internal conflict?

• person vs. person
• person vs. society
• person vs. nature
• person vs. self