Comparison between to unlike things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
100
What literary device do the following examples represent?
Santa’s helpers are known as subordinate Clauses. •A horse is a very stable animal.
What is a pun?
100
This literary device refers to the repetition of vowel sounds within a sentence or phrase.
Example
The fool will choose to play pool.
What is assonance?
100
What literary technique means a small or little song or lyric. It has 14 fourteen lines and is written in iambic pentameter. Each line has 10 syllables
What is a sonnet?
100
A literary device which gives inanimate objects human characteristics.
What is personification?
200
Any person, place or action that represents something else like the stars and stripes on the US flag represent the states.
What is a symbol?
200
When words have the same sound this device is called a what?
What is rhyme?
200
This literary device refers to words that are written in quick succession and begin with the same letters.
What is alliteration?
200
What literary technique consists of a pair of lines that have end rhyme.
What is a couplet?
200
What literary technique is represented by the lines below?
Row after row with strict impunity
The headstones yield their names to the element,
The wind whirrs without recollection;
In the riven troughs the splayed leaves
Pile up, of nature the casual sacramen
To the seasonal eternity of death…
What is an ode?
300
What literary device does this statement represent? It’s no wonder everyone refers to Mary as another Mother Teresa in the making; she loves to help and care after people everywhere- from the streets to her own friends.
What is an allusion?
300
What literary technique is lyrical in nature, but not very lengthy. It is highly solemn and serious in its tone and subject matter, and usually is used with elaborate patterns of stanzas, and is often formal.
What is an ode?
300
A literary technique which is a collection of spoken or written words that expresses ideas or emotions in a powerfully vivid and imaginative style, comprising of a particular rhythmic and metrical pattern sometimes WRITTEN IN STANZAS
What is a poem?
300
Words that imitate sounds
What is onomatopoeia?
300
This literary technique that refers to the mental and emotional disposition of the author towards the subject, which in turn lends a particular character or atmosphere to the work.
What is mood?
400
Exaggeration to create an effect
What is hyperbole?
400
Use of words to appeal to the five senses by describing how something tastes, looks, sounds, feels or smells.
What is imagery?
400
Contrast between what is expected and what actually occurs
What is irony?
400
This literary device demonstrates the long and short patterns through stressed and unstressed syllables particularly in verse form.
What is rhythm?
400
What literary device do these lines represent?
“I am so tired I cannot walk another inch” or “I’m so sleepy I might fall asleep standing here”.
What is hyperbole?
500
Which literary device does the following example represent?
In her Harry Potter series, author J.K. Rowling has taken an extremely positive, inspiring and uplifting attitude towards the idea of love and devotion
What is tone?
500
What literary device repeats the same words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer.
What is repetition?
500
What literary device does an author use which refers to an important historical event, political figure, historical figure, cultural or literary figure by way of a passing reference.
What is an allusion?
500
Giving human-like characteristics to something non-human
What is personification?
500
What literary device is used throughout these lines?
The gushing brook stole its way down the lush green mountains, dotted with tiny flowers in a riot of colors and trees coming alive with gaily chirping birds.