Literary Devices
This device uses exaggeration for emphasis or effect.
What is hyperbole?)
The longest river in South America.
What is the Amazon River?
What global conflict occurred from 1914-1918?
What is World War I?
This religion's holy book is the Torah.
What is Judaism?
The artistic and cultural movement that roughly spanned the 14th to the 17th century.
What is the Renaissance?
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
What is alliteration?
The capital city of Japan.
What is Tokyo?
What event in 1929 led to a worldwide economic depression?
What is the stock market crash?
The Five Pillars are central to this religion.
What is Islam?
A style of art in which imagery is taken from popular culture.
What is Pop Art?
A comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
The mountain range that separates Europe from Asia.
What are the Ural Mountains?
What global conflict occurred from 1939-1945?
What is World War II?
This religion emphasizes the Four Noble Truths.
What is Buddhism?
A style of art that explores the subconscious mind.
What is Surrealism?
A figure of speech in which an object or idea is given human feelings or qualities.
What is personification?
The largest desert in Africa.
What is the Sahara Desert?
What was the ideological conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union? DOUBLE JEOPARDY
What is the Cold War?
The concept of the Trinity is fundamental to this religion.
What is Christianity?
An early 20th-century style of art in which perspective with a single viewpoint was abandoned and use was made of simple geometric shapes.
What is Cubism?
A symbolic representation.
What is a metaphor?
The ocean that borders the western coast of the United States.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
What event in 1989 symbolized the end of the Cold War?
What is the fall of the Berlin Wall?
Reincarnation is a core belief in this religion.
What is Hinduism?
An artistic style emphasizing strong colors and broad brushstrokes. DOUBLE JEOPARDY
What is Impressionism?