Literary Devices Key Terms

Question 1

A joke with a different meaning is the definition of a pun

Accepted Answer

True

Question 2

What is a Simile?

Accepted Answer

A comparison using "Like" or "as"

Question 3

What is the definition of Alliteration?

Accepted Answer

Same letter or sound at beginning of words

Question 4

You are my sunshine: is an example of a metaphor

Accepted Answer

True

Question 5

If your English teacher says: I have told you to stop talking 1000 times today. What is this an example of?

Accepted Answer

Hyperbole

Question 6

What is Juxtaposition?

Accepted Answer

Items being seen close together with opposite effects

Question 7

what is this literary device: My car is having a hissy fit. She groaned all the way to the petrol station.

Accepted Answer

Personification

Question 8

The same sound at the END of words or lines of text is:

Accepted Answer

A Rhyme

Question 9

"Expressing meaning by saying something that normally means the opposite" is what?

Accepted Answer

Irony

Question 10

Similar VOWEL sounds within close words is also called:

Accepted Answer

Assonance

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