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What literary device is used when a non-human object or animal is given human characteristics?
Personification
What is the term for a comparison using "like" or "as"?
Simile
What do we call an exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally?
Hyperbole
Which literary device involves the repetition of the initial consonant sounds in a series of words?
Alliteration
What is the term for a play on words that have similar sounds but different meanings?
Pun
What literary device involves the repetition of vowel sounds within non-rhyming words?
Assonance
What is the term for a reference to another work of literature, person, or event?
Allusion
What do we call the main character in a story, often a hero or heroine?
Protagonist
What literary device is used when the opposite of what is expected occurs?
Irony
What is the term for the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities?
Symbolism
What literary device involves giving clues or hints about what will happen later in the story?
Foreshadowing
What do we call the character or force that opposes the main character in a story?
Antagonist
What is the term for a figure of speech that directly compares two unlike things without using "like" or "as"?
Metaphor
What do we call an expression that has a meaning different from the meaning of its individual words?
Idiom
What literary device involves creating a mental image through descriptive language?
Imagery
What is the term for a narrative device that interrupts the chronological sequence of events to relate an event from an earlier time?
Flashback
