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Literary Devices
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A quiz game based on many of the basic literary devices.
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"I'm so hungry I could eat a cow" is an example of what literary device?
Exaggeration
Understatment
Irony
Hyperbole
2
The sad maple fought the harsh autumn breeze for position of its remaining leaves.
Tone
Atmosphere
Personification
Imagery
3
Words that imitate sounds.
Onomatopoeia
Tones
Personification
Allusion
4
His hair was snow white and stuck to his head like duckfluff.
simile
metaphor
5
Anakin eventually turns into Vader. What is Anakin's shadow an example of?
Characterization
Foreshadowing
Allusion
Personification
6
Dill talks about having read
Dracula
before. Mentioning a book inside a book is an example of:
Theme
Allusion
Plot
Parody
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Counting Crows
Alliteration
Alliterative
8
What is used when an author shows/explains what a character is like, rather than simply telling
Characterization
Imagery
Sensory Images
personification
9
My life is a never-ending roller coaster.
Metaphive
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
10
What literary device is illustrated in the picture below?
Allusion
Alliteration
Rhyme Scheme
Internal Rhyme
11
An interruption of the present action to insert an episode that took place earlier.
Flash forward
Flashback
Soliloquey
Retrospective
12
Mental pictures created by using descriptions of the senses.
Description
Imagere
Imagery
Picture Talk
13
"Life is like a box of chocolates."
Theme
Simile
Tone
Metaphor
14
We know that there is a thief hiding in the house, but the characters do not. What is this?
Allusion
Oxymoron
Irony
Characterization
15
Metaphors and Similes are the most popular type of this literary device...
Analogy
Allusion
Alliteration
Atmosphere
16
What is illustrated below?
Onomatopeia
Pun
Imagery
Foreshadowing
17
What does the below picture illustrate?
Imagery
Symbolism
Irony
Figurative Language
18
Hints used to clue the reader into what might happen later in a piece are considered...
personification
metaphor
foreshadowing
dramatic irony
19
What is illustrated by the below picture?
Foreshadowing
Poetic Justice
Parody
Irony
20
Any person, object, or idea that stands for something other than itself.
Poetic Justice
Symbol
Theme
Plot
21
Which literary device does the following picture illustrate?
Parody
Personification
Imagery
Onomatopoeia
22
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
Simile
Metaphor