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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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What is illustrated below?
Imagery
Onomatopeia
Foreshadowing
Pun
2
Dill talks about having read
Dracula
before. Mentioning a book inside a book is an example of:
Theme
Allusion
Parody
Plot
3
Anakin eventually turns into Vader. What is Anakin's shadow an example of?
Allusion
Personification
Foreshadowing
Characterization
4
What does the below picture illustrate?
Symbolism
Irony
Figurative Language
Imagery
5
Hints used to clue the reader into what might happen later in a piece are considered...
personification
metaphor
foreshadowing
dramatic irony
6
His hair was snow white and stuck to his head like duckfluff.
metaphor
simile
7
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
Metaphor
Simile
8
"I'm so hungry I could eat a cow" is an example of what literary device?
Understatment
Exaggeration
Irony
Hyperbole
9
What is illustrated by the below picture?
Parody
Foreshadowing
Poetic Justice
Irony
10
An interruption of the present action to insert an episode that took place earlier.
Soliloquey
Flashback
Flash forward
Retrospective
11
Counting Crows
Alliterative
Alliteration
12
What is used when an author shows/explains what a character is like, rather than simply telling
personification
Characterization
Imagery
Sensory Images
13
Mental pictures created by using descriptions of the senses.
Imagery
Description
Picture Talk
Imagere
14
"Life is like a box of chocolates."
Tone
Theme
Metaphor
Simile
15
What literary device is illustrated in the picture below?
Internal Rhyme
Alliteration
Allusion
Rhyme Scheme
16
Any person, object, or idea that stands for something other than itself.
Poetic Justice
Theme
Plot
Symbol
17
We know that there is a thief hiding in the house, but the characters do not. What is this?
Irony
Allusion
Oxymoron
Characterization
18
The sad maple fought the harsh autumn breeze for position of its remaining leaves.
Personification
Tone
Atmosphere
Imagery
19
Which literary device does the following picture illustrate?
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Parody
Imagery
20
Words that imitate sounds.
Tones
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Allusion
21
Metaphors and Similes are the most popular type of this literary device...
Alliteration
Atmosphere
Allusion
Analogy
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My life is a never-ending roller coaster.
Metaphive
Personification
Metaphor
Simile