Literary Terms Practice Test

1. alliteration
2. allusion
3. anaphora
4. antithesis
5. assonance
6. consonance
7. diction
8. hyperbole
9. imagery
10. metaphor
11. oxymoron
12. paradox
13. personification
14. pun
15. rhyme
16. simile
17. symbol
18. understatement
19. verbal irony

 

_____1. Use of contradictory words in the same phrase

_____2.  Repetition of vowel sounds in a series of words

_____3.  Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of lines, clauses, or sentences.

_____4. Repetition of initial consonant sounds

_____5. An indirect reference to a mythological, literary, or historical person, place, person or thing.

_____6. An image which stands for something larger than itself

_____7. placement of opposite ideas in similar grammatical structure

_____8. Comparison of two unlike objects without using the words like or as. The objects are compared by identifying them or by substituting one for the other.

_____9. Words or phrases a writer uses to represent persons, objects, actions, feelings, and ideas descriptively by appealing to the senses.

_____10. Repetition of sounds in two or more words or phrases that appear close to each other in a poem

_____11. A comparison of two unlike things using the words like or as

_____12. Repetition of a consonant sound within a series of words to produce a harmonious effect

_____13. A play on words based on the similarity of sound between two words with different meanings

_____14. Word choice intended to convey a certain effect.

_____15. A seemingly contradictory statement which proves true when you think about it

                 

_____16. An intentional representation of something as less than it is

_____17. when there is a difference between what is said and what is meant

_____18. An intentional exaggeration of something for dramatic or comic effect

_____19. to give an inanimate object human qualities    

For each example below, identify what literary term it illustrates. Not all terms will be used.

 

1. alliteration
2. allusion
3. anaphora
4. antithesis
5. metaphor
6. paradox
7. personification
8. pun
9. simile
10. understatement
11. verbal irony

_____20. “Life is a broken-winged bird/That cannot fly”

_____21. He'd never gone hunting but decided to give it a shot.

_____22. “I must be cruel to be kind.”

_____23. “Some tinfoil was sticking in a knothole in the fence just above my eye level, winking at me in the afternoon sun.”

_____24. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

_____25. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

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