Literary Devices (Advanced ELA)

Which term describes exaggeration for emphasis?

What is the term for giving human qualities to non-human things?

Which literary device is used in the phrase "Time flies"?

What literary device describes the feelings a text causes a reader to feel?

What literary device describes the features of someone or something?

Which literary device is used in the phrase "She was a ray of sunshine"?

What literary device concerns where a story takes place?

What literary device is the main (central) idea of a story?

Which literary device compares two things using "like" or "as"?

Which literary device means a word that describes a sound?

Which literary device is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words?

What is an example of personification?

What is the main purpose of figurative language?

Which term describes a phrase that contradicts itself?

What literary device means something that happens again and again? (Bonus: Guess what movie this image is from)

What is a metaphor?

Which literary device is used in the phrase "The world is my oyster"?

What literary device is this? A thing (an object or event) that represents another thing.