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Hampson Competition Literary Devices

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1
What is a metaphor?
Comparison using "like" or "as"
Comparison without using "like" or "as"
When two words rhyme
Giving a nonhuman object a human characteristic
2
What is an allusion?
A reference to someone or something outside of the text
The use of words that imitate sounds
Words or phrases that appeal to the reader's senses
A perspective from which a story is told
3
CRACK!, BOOM!, and POW! are examples of what literary device?
Alliteration
Allusion
Onomatopoeia
Personification
4
"If I do not eat my daily papaya, I will surely die" is an example of what literary device?
Paradox
Tone
Hyperbole
Imagery
5
Which is the best example of metaphor?
The cat was on the floor.
That test was a piece of cake.
The bike is broken.
The red car is slow like a turtle.
6
What literary device is represented in the sentence, "He was sweating like a racehorse."
Simile
Onomatopoeia
Metaphor
Imagery
7
"The wall stared at me silently" is an example of what type of literary device?
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Alliteration
8
What is an example of simile?
I like to smell roses.
The night sky was a black ocean.
As blind as a bat.
The sun is a yellow daffodil.
9
"Purple puppies like playing on the playground." This is an example of:
Metaphor
Alliteration
Simile
Personifcation
10
What is an example of assonance?
That damn camera angered the family.
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Life is like a box of chocolates.