Literary Devices & Terms Quiz

A comparison throughout the whole poem.

A figure of speech that uses "like" or "as" to compare two unlike ideas.

The speaker's attitude toward the subject or audience.

<p>Who is telling or narrating the story.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A nonhuman subject is given human characteristics.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The repetition of initial consonant sounds.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The literal definition of a word.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Repetition of the (s) sound</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Pattern of rhymes</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An exaggeration</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Repetition of coordinate conjunctions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Reading one line of a poem that follows into the next.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Repetition of consonant sounds anywhere in a word.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A narrative device that hints at coming events; often builds suspense or anxiety in the reader.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The use of words that imitate sounds.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Conjoining contradictory terms.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When a reader/audience is aware of something that a character isn't.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A character that does not change from the beginning of the story to the end.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>1st person</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>2nd person</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>3rd person limited</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>3rd person omniscient</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A diagram of plot structure consisting of exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The series of conflicts or struggles that build a story toward a climax.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Most exciting moment of the story; turning point.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A struggle between opposing forces.</p> Signup and view all the answers