Pre-AP: Literary Devices Test Preview

On tomorrow's test you must be able to define and provide your own creative example of the following 20 literary devices. You will not be able to use any texts, notes, personal literary dictionaries, or regular dictionaries. You must use the brain you have in your skull when you arrive in the classroom.

• Adage/aphorism/axiom*
• Alliteration
• Allusion
• Analogy
• Anaphora
• Assonance
• Diction – sentence(s) employing 3+ word choices contributing to same mood/tone
• Flashback
• Foreshadowing
• Hyperbole
• Imagery, Gustatory
• Imagery, Olfactory
• Imagery, Tactile
• Imagery, Visual
• Irony
• Metaphor
• Onomatopoeia
• Oxymoron/paradox*
• Personification
• Simile

Bonuses (cannot raise your grade above 105 points):

• Apostrophe (literary term, not the punctuation)
• Pun
• Synesthesia (literary, not medical definition)

*You need only provide an example of one of these terms; the definition must apply to the term you choose.