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Literary Devices Quiz 102 (60 MCQs)

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1. What is the development of a character's traits throughout a story called?
2. The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe
3. Sorry, I thought you knew that John kicked the bucket. I figured somebody told you knew he bit thhe dust.
4. Your teeth are like stars, They shine at night.Choose the simile from these lines.
5. In the Harry Potter series, the Death Eaters rebelled against the social ideas of the normal wizarding world. Of what type of conflict is this an example?
6. My backpack weighed a ton with all of my books in it.
7. A play on words; Ex:I really wanted a camo shirt, but I couldn't find one.
8. Indirect comparison of two unlike things using like, as, seems, or than.
9. The flowers are dancing beside the lake.
10. An exaggeration used to make or prove a point
11. Words that are similar but do not have same number of syllables
12. The beginning of the story that has the setting, background, character introduction and initial conflict is called the:
13. After giving evidence to support your ideas, you should .....
14. When something is used to represent something else
15. What is the literary device that repeats the same phrase at the beginning of each line?
16. The moon smiled at me. What kind of figures of speech is being used?
17. The aural image appeals to the sense of?
18. I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
19. The emotional bonding of the character(s) and the reader is .....
20. When a word is formed from a sound.
21. A combination of two words that contradict each other. For example:deafening silence
22. What is the leading character in the story called?
23. His girlfriend and his hopes for all future happiness walked out of the dance and into the rain.
24. What is this an example of?The bonfire hissed and cracked.
25. A scene in a narrative work that interrupts the present action of the plot to "flash backward" and tell what happened at an earlier time
26. At his confirmation, Mark's father gave him a wooden cross that had been hand-carved by his great-grandfather. He said that he always found comfort in the cross, and hoped that Mark would too.
27. This is the main character, characterized by "goodness"
28. Pretty princesses prancing is an example of alliteration
29. What is the purpose of irony as a literary device?
30. Macbeth kills King .....
31. Which war is taking place during the story?
32. A type of dramatic irony where what is meant is different to what is said (sarcasm is a mild form).
33. "A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas river drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green." What literary device is used?
34. "HIC, Dolopum manus, HICsaevus tendebat Achilles:classibus HIC locus, HIC aciecertare solebant"
35. Let it go, let it go, and I'll rise like the break of dawn
36. The author directly states a character's traits and personality
37. Fog The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.
38. "The street lamp flickering opposite shone on a quiet and deserted road."
39. The vehicle (person, animal, creation) that moves the story forward.
40. Which of the following is NOT a metaphor
41. Which of the following means: "toned down or silenced"
42. In Jamaica the land of wood and water we have at least one home being burnt to the ground weekly.
43. The traffic noises argued long into the night and finally Cal went to sleep.
44. Definition of Simile
45. She was a giant.
46. Imagine Jaylene, Joseph, and David are watching a suspenseful movie. What would you call the feeling they experience when they can't wait to find out the ending?
47. My sister is the devil is an example of
48. I am from a place where the aroma of BBQ surrounds you while listening to the crackling of the fire and watching the flames sway.
49. The use of words people, locations, objects, or ideas to represent something beyond the literal meaning
50. Do a quick read of any stanza of the poem "The Brook" . What is a prominent literary device used?
51. The example highlighted below is an example of? The engine purred like a contented cat.
52. I couldn't take the deafening silence in the room after our argument.
53. Fill in the blank:Denotation is the ..... definition of a word.
54. Compares two different things saying the one is the other, without using 'like' or 'as'
55. Apple = knowledge, teachers, good health. What is this an example of?
56. My love My love is like a red balloon against the bluest sky. It soars along the doves and flutters like a butterfly. My love is like a baby's smile. It melts your heart in a beat, reaches you through all the walls, and wraps you up in a velvet sheet. Which phrase from the poem makes something seem human?
57. The sequence of events in a literary work is known as which literary device?
58. BOOM! BANG! POW!!
59. Buzzzzz ..... Creak! Crack ! Squeak! OWWWWWW! are examples of .....
60. The author hinting at where the story is going.
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