Literary Terms and Figurative Language

A ____ compares two unlike things using 'like' or 'as.'

• analogy
• paradox
• simile
• metaphor

Giving human qualities to non-human things is called:

• Hyperbole
• Metonymy
• Personification
• Consonance

Dramatic irony is when the audience knows something a character does not.

• True
• False

Tone is the atmosphere the reader feels while reading.

• True
• False

The turning point of maximum tension in a plot is the:

• Rising action
• Climax
• Exposition
• Resolution

____ uses a part to represent the whole, as in 'more hands.'

• Synecdoche
• Metaphor
• Analogy
• Metonymy

Which term means deliberate exaggeration for emphasis?

• Understatement
• Hyperbole
• Euphemism
• Cliché

Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds inside nearby words.

• True
• False

Tone is the reader's feeling and mood is the writer's attitude.

• True
• False

A ____ is a character who changes meaningfully over the story.

• dynamic character
• antagonist
• static character
• foil

Which point of view knows every character's thoughts?

• Second person
• Third person omniscient
• First person
• Third person limited

A ____ is a metaphor that continues across several lines or a whole passage.

• allusion
• extended metaphor
• analogy
• motif

'The crown announced new taxes' is an example of:

• metonymy
• pun
• synecdoche
• hyperbole

Consonance repeats consonant sounds inside or at the end of nearby words, not at the beginning.

• True
• False

____ is an indirect reference to another work, event, person, or myth.

• Allusion
• Paradox
• Analogy
• Symbolism