Figurative Language and Literary Terms Test

Fill in the blank: A ______ is a type of figurative language that compares two things using 'like' or 'as'.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Fill in the blank: A ______ is a type of figurative language that makes a direct comparison without using 'like' or 'as'.

• metaphor

• simile

• analogy

• personification

Fill in the blank: A ______ is a type of figurative language that uses extreme exaggeration for effect.

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

• analogy

Fill in the blank: ______ is a type of figurative language that gives human characteristics to nonhuman things.

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

Fill in the blank: ______ are words spoken between characters, using quotation marks around the actual words.

• dialogue

• monologue

• soliloquy

• conversation

Fill in the blank: ______ is the shape or plan for a poem.

• form

• rhyme

• meter

• verse

Fill in the blank: ______ is the writing style that helps convey meaning, purpose, or tone.

• voice

• tone

• style

• mood

What is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables called?

• Rhythm
• Rhyme

• Alliteration

• Consonance

What are techniques that appeal to the hearing of the reader known as?

• Sound Devices

• Onomatopoeia

• Repetition

• Alliteration

What are words that imitate sounds known as?

• Onomatopoeia

• Near Rhyme

• Enjambment

• Alliteration