Literary Devices

What is the best definition of figurative language?

• Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling

• A conversation between characters or speakers in a literary work or the speech of characters in a drama

• A recurring subject, theme, or idea in a literary work

• A device in literature when an object or thing represents an idea.

What is the best definition of the word foreshadowing?

• An organizational device used in literature to present action that occurred before the current or present time of the story.

• An object or idea given human qualities or a human form  
  

• An organizational device used in literature to create expectation or to set up an explanation of later developments.

• A device in literature when an object or thing represents an idea.
  

What is the best definition of imagery?

• Descriptive or figurative language in a literary work; the use of language to create sensory impressions

• The comparison of two unlike things WITHOUT using like or as 

• A device in literature when an object or thing represents an idea.
  

• A recurring subject, theme, or idea in a literary work

Which word is a comparison of two unlike things using like or as?

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Literary Device

Which word means a recurring subject, theme, or idea in a literary work?

• Foreshadowing

• Symbolism

• Personification

• Motif

Which word means an exaggeration or overstatement?

• Allusion

• Literary Device

• Hyperbole

• Motif

A reference in a work of literature to a character, place, or situation from history, music, or another work of literature.

• anaphora

• foreshadowing

• analogy

• allusion

A question that is asked without expecting an answer.

• examples/facts/statistics

• persuasion

• rhetorical question

• allusion

A comparison between two things [Simile/Metaphor/Personification]

• allusion

• analogy

• aphorism

• parallelism

Repetition of successive lines in separate sentences of phrases in a text.

• aphorism

• anecdote

• repetition

• anaphora