Literary Devices
Test your knowledge of literary devices — the techniques writers use to add meaning, rhythm, and impact to their language.
Questions cover metaphor and simile, personification and hyperbole, the different types of irony, and devices like onomatopoeia, alliteration, and allusion.
Once you know these devices, you'll start noticing them everywhere — see how many you can identify.
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Q1
Which literary device is demonstrated in the phrase 'the silence screamed'?
Q2
What is a simile?
Q3
Which of the following are examples of imagery?
What This Quiz Covers
- Metaphor and simile
- Personification and hyperbole
- Types of irony: situational, verbal, dramatic
- Onomatopoeia and alliteration
- Allusion and imagery
- Understatement and anaphora
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