Question 1
What term describes a comparison using "like" or "as"?
- Simile
- Metaphor
- Irony
- Hyperbole
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Simile
Literature · General Literature
Literary Terms trivia quiz
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What the Literary Terms questions cover
- Figurative Language
- Repetition
- Conjunctions
- Syntax
- Narrative
- Understatement
- Wordplay
- Figures of speech
- Form
- Plot Structure
- Rhetoric
- Tragedy
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Question 2
What term describes a direct comparison that states one thing is another?
- Simile
- Metaphor
- Onomatopoeia
- Alliteration
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Metaphor
Question 3
What literary device uses deliberate overstatement for emphasis or effect?
- Understatement
- Personification
- Hyperbole
- Allusion
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Hyperbole
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