Literary Devices / Figurative Language #1
What figure of speech compares two different things using the words "like" or "as"?
Simile
What literary term refers to the overall emotional atmosphere created in the reader by a text?
Mood
What type of expression has a figurative meaning that differs from the literal definition of its individual words (e.g., "piece of cake")?
Idiom
What part of speech replaces a noun in a sentence to avoid repetitive phrasing
Pronoun
What part of speech modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb, often ending in "-ly"?
Adverb
What type of irony occurs when the actual outcome of a situation is the exact opposite of what was expected?
Situational Irony
What literary device uses intentional, extreme exaggeration to emphasize a point or add humor?
Hyperbole
What literary device provides subtle hints or clues about what will happen later in the plot?
Foreshadowing
What punctuation mark is used to enclose direct dialogue or exact words quoted from a text?
Quotation Marks
What type of sentence issues a direct command, request, or instruction?
Imperative sentence
What figure of speech gives human traits, emotions, or actions to non-human objects, animals, or ideas?
Personification
What narrative technique interrupts the present sequence of events to show an earlier occurrence?
Flashback
What figure of speech pairs two contradictory or opposite words together (e.g., "deafening silence")?
Oxymoron
What part of speech joins words, phrases, or clauses together (e.g., and, but, or)?
Conjunction
What verb form can function as an adjective, often ending in "-ing" or "-ed"?
Participle
What device uses a physical object, character, or event to stand for a broader, abstract idea?
Symbolism
What figure of speech refers to words that imitate the natural sound made by a thing (e.g., buzz, crash)?
Onomatopoeia
What literary term describes the author's attitude toward their subject or audience?
Tone
What punctuation mark connects two independent clauses that are closely related in thought without a coordinating conjunction?
Semicolon
What essential structural part of a sentence contains the verb and tells what the subject is or does?
Predicate
What figure of speech directly compares two unlike things without using "like" or "as"?
Metaphor
What sound device is the repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of nearby words?
Alliteration
What figure of speech uses a part of something to represent the whole (e.g., referring to a car as "wheels")?
Synecdoche
What specific type of noun names a group of people, animals, or things as a single unit (e.g., team, flock)?
Collective noun
What verb form ends in "-ing" and functions specifically as a noun in a sentence?
Gerund