<p>Like personification, alliteration, allusion etc?</p>
<p>No, you don’t to know the terms per se, but knowing the effects of the terms you listed can be helpful in analyzing the author’s intent and tone :).</p>
<p>No you don’t. The only standardized test that requires you to know them because they will be answer choices is AP English Language and Composition. Even then, it’s not that hard. I self-studied, and read through Princeton Review’s book the night before the test and scored a 5.</p>
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<p>I don’t think so. I think the extent to which the SAT tests literary devices is simile and metaphor (if that).</p>
<p>Just know the basic ones like simile, metaphor, irony, etc. I’ve seen the BB ask questions like that with those terms as answers.</p>