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Literary Devices Quiz 100 (60 MCQs)

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1. A brief (and sometimes indirect) reference in a text to a person, place, or thing.
2. "It's time to take out the trash" is an example of a(n)
3. A tool a writer uses to enrich the text.
4. Referencing Hercules in the story could be considered a/an .....
5. Choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing
6. What is the literary device used to create a vivid picture in the reader's mind?
7. Dread or hatred of books
8. The chocolate cake was calling my name.
9. Dunbar's line "Why should the world be over-wise" is an example of .....
10. This literary device does not require using like or as to make a comparison
11. What lesson did Scrooge learn from the Spirit of Christmas Yet to Come?
12. That television is state-of-the-art.
13. Can you keep the cat from clawing the couch?
14. The author's feelings or attitude toward his subject matter or characters in the story
15. This event in the plot sets the central conflict in motion.
16. When the audience knows something the characters don't
17. Which literary device is used to develop the personalities and traits of the characters in The Alchemist?
18. What literary device does the word "sad" refers to?
19. The emotions the reader feels while reading a story.
20. IronyExclaiming "Oh great!" after failing an exam is .....
21. Point of View:Perspective from which the story is told. Which is the easiest to use and most common?
22. A category system that literature falls into based on specific conventions that develop to characterize the differences
23. As the train pulled into the station, we finally met eyes. We had been avoiding this moment, but it was here now. Tears welled. Words choked. We hugged each other awkwardly before I grabbed my bags and jumped on the train. A chapter had ended. Things would never be the same between us again. What is the point of view?
24. The continued use of the same word or word pattern
25. When the character struggles against an outside force
26. The big headed, gray alien with the little, round pot belly looked on as the giant yellow beam zeroed in on the lonely cow.
27. Stories handed down through speech from generation to generation, have an unknown author, adapted from, and retold
28. The story of a real person's life that is written by that person
29. True or False:George Orwell is the author's real name.
30. These have an inherent existence in literary pieces because authors cannot create their desired work without including these.
31. A difference between the expected and the actual result
32. She is fast as a rocket!
33. -"I must hear from thee every day in the hour for in a minute there and many days"
34. There are three types of ..... dramaticsituationalverbal
35. What term means category or kind of story?
36. An important idea or subject repeated throughout a story with an object to represent it. This object will be shown or mentioned again and again.
37. Literary work in which the central character meets an unhappy or disastrous end
38. "The sun came out for an hour and showed its face to the stunned world"
39. A narrative element with symbolic meaning that repeats throughout themes and a work of literature.
40. My mom is going to ground me for a thousand years.
41. A warning in Literature that alludes to a future event that will take place.
42. Narrator is a character outside of the story and knows the thoughts of all characters
43. A figure of speech comparing two things using "like" or "as"; Ex:Jamie's quick as a fox!
44. Mr. Ramsay gave a luxurious dote to his future bride for their upcoming wedding on December 2021
45. Traits, characteristics, and mannerisms supposedly shared by all members of a group
46. What is the common allusion for Goofy?
47. What shows action or a state of being
48. What does the word "Diction" mean?
49. In a piece of literature, briefly referencing an important person, what he/she said, did or stood for; or a place, an event; or even inserting a popular phrase or line from a written text, even from the Bible is known as:
50. While narrating a story, John described his friend's courage by saying, "His bravery was like a lion facing its prey." This statement is an example of .....
51. I must be cruel to be kind.
52. Spongebob is an example of what type of literary device?
53. A situation in which two characters have opposing desires or interests.
54. The events that make up a story or drama
55. In a school play, Anthony portrayed a character who was as innocent as a lamb. Which literary device is being used in this description?
56. In the meantime the sky begins with a great murmur of confusion, followed by a cloud mixed with hail, and the Counts of Tyria here and there, and the Trojan youth, and the grandson of Venus, fleeing in fear through the various fields; rivers rush down from the mountains. What literary device is found in line 161?
57. What type of literary device is found in the following quite: "And me, my hair is lazy" (6).
58. Little Red Riding Hood was told by her mother, "Don't sop along the way. Go straight to your grandma's house. Don't talk to any strangers and watch out for the wolf in the woods."
59. A piece of literature or art that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning
60. Which literary device is being used in the following sentence:'Time is a thief'?
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