Final Review: Literary Devices

Question 1

A comparison of two things using “like” or “as”

Accepted Answer

simile

Question 2

__ And I understood just what we would do for each other. Anything.Everything. (The last words in the novel)

Accepted Answer

cliffhanger

Question 3

An ending to a chapter or story that leaves the audience in suspense

Accepted Answer

cliffhanger

Question 4

A word that comes from the sound from which it is named

Accepted Answer

onomatopoeia

Question 5

a maze of darkened windows and burnt cars in kaleidoscopic boroughs

Accepted Answer

imagery

Question 6

A warning or indication of a future event

Accepted Answer

foreshadowing

Question 7

The writer tells the audience about a characters traits or personality

Accepted Answer

direct characterization

Question 8

Given human characteristics to something nonhuman

Accepted Answer

personification

Question 9

Screeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Accepted Answer

onomatopoeia

Question 10

A comparison of two things that doesn’t use “like” or “as”

Accepted Answer

metaphor

Question 11

Neither of us could imagine that everything would change in a few hours.

Accepted Answer

foreshadowing

Question 12

The world had gone mad and was belching up rotten pipelines from the ground.

Accepted Answer

personification

Question 13

Details in writing which appeal to our physical senses

Accepted Answer

imagery

Question 14

Minerva sat in the cart like a queen on a throne

Accepted Answer

simile

Question 15

Out here stars were perforations revealing the bleached skeleton of the universe.

Accepted Answer

metaphor

Question 16

Rose was a fighter and became more vocal every day.

Accepted Answer

direct characterization

Questions 16