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Literary Devices: Definitions
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Literary Devices: Examples
Miscellaneous
100
This is the word for the overall message of a poem.
What is theme?
100
This literary device means an exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
100
Part of speech of capitalized word: I was born ON the 8th of July.
What is a preposition?
100
Name that device: "Tom's eyes were ice as he stared down his enemy."
What is metaphor?
100
An interrogative sentence ends with this punctuation.
What is a question mark?
200
A poem with four lines is called this.
What is a quatrain?
200
This literary device is a comparison made between different things using the words like or as.
What is a simile?
200
The arrow hit the bullseye with a loud thwack!  (What device is being used here?)
What is onomatopoeia?
200
Name that device: "Good things come to those who wait."
What is an adage (or proverb)?
200
Run-on, Sentence, or Fragment: The first time I ever went there, way back when I was five years old.
What is "fragment"?
300
A poem with 17 syllables, it usually focuses on nature.
What is haiku?
300
This literary device uses a word that imitates the sound it describes.
What is onomatopoeia?
300
Name the complete subject of this sentence: Justin and the other rats decided on a plan.
What is "Justin and the other rats"?
300
Name that device: "Every cloud has a silver lining."
What is an idiom?
300
Two words that are pronounced the same but have different meanings or spellings (or both) are called these.
What are homophones?
400
This is the name for a single line in a poem.
What is a verse?
400
A figure of speech in a particular language which has a different meaning than its words suggest.
What is an idiom?
400
Run-on, fragment, or sentence: "He slammed on the brakes too late, he hit the car in front of him."
What is a run-on?
400
The hood of the car was so hot you could cook a steak on it in five minutes.
What is hyperbole?
400
The words "frigid" and "scorching" are examples of this.
What are antonyms?
500
This is the name of a group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
500
This literary device gives human qualities to something that is not human.
What is personification?
500
Correct the sentence: The only way I know to make a chicken fall asleep is to put its head under it's wing.
What is change it's to its?
500
The gate groaned tiredly as the wind blew.
What is personification?
500
A sentence or phrase that reads the same forwards and backwards, like "racecar", is called this.
What is a palindrome?