Literary Device Quiz

“O brawling love, o loving hate” (Shakespeare)

“I don’t want an apple. I want an orange.”

A short and amusing story about a real occurrence or person

“One of us always tells the truth, and one of us always lies.” (The Labyrinth)

Intended to educate or have moral lessons as a main motive

“I want to be picked up early, but not before eight”

“Peas and carrots and broccoli and apples and pie and bananas”

“Go mow the lawn in rows”

Comic parts in a dramatic work that offset the seriousness

A statement or event that depends on a future statement or event

“Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.”

The set of rules in a language; how sentences are structured

The imitation of a writer, genre, or work of art, exaggerated in some way to gain comic effect

A previous statement from which another is inferred

A technique to present ideas so they appeal to senses such as taste, smell, or hearing

“You lying scum!”

A stylistic device that determines how fast the story goes

“Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.”

A rhetorical device in which two or more clauses are balanced against each other

“Suffering hearts and souls”