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Literary Devices Quiz 109 (60 MCQs)

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1. A stylistic add on to make something more exciting, interesting, or artistic
2. When you describe an author's disposition concerning his/her topic as frustrated, enraged, joyous, excited, sympathetic, or sorrowful, you are describing his/her:
3. In a dramatic movie, a family is heartbroken because their dog has run away. The audience knows that the dog is safe and that a nice family is trying to help him find his way home.
4. ..... characters change quite a bit throughout a story.
5. "Beatty was looking at him as if he were a museum statue."
6. Literary term used for language and description that appeals to our five senses.
7. A widely known basic truth
8. The juxtaposition of a set of seemingly contradictory concepts that reveal a hidden and/or unexpected truth.
9. This is an expression that has a meaning particular to a language or region and cannot be interpreted literally.
10. A figure of speech in which human attributes are given to an animal, an object or a concept.
11. Select the infinitive from the sentence. I want to eat empanadillas. / Select the infinitive of the sentence. I want to eat dumplings.
12. The main or central character in a story
13. It is the usage of sound words to create a dramatic effect.
14. Why did Orwell write ANIMAL FARM?
15. Any prose narrative that tells about things as they actually happened or that presents factual information about something
16. Uses words that appeal to the 5 senses
17. S.T.E.A.L. Characterization means .....
18. Janie vs. the hurricane is an example of a ..... conflict.
19. Sheba is a very sweet dog; she is like a giant stuffed animal.
20. Which literary device uses "like" or "as" to compare two things?
21. "Would the New Jersey Legislature have passed that shameful repeal bill enabling girls of fourteen years to work all night, if the mothers in New Jersey were enfranchised? Until the mothers in the great industrial states are enfranchised, we shall none of us be able to free our consciences from participation in this great evil."
22. A simile that is several lines long, used to emphasize a point.
23. You were as brave as a lion.
24. The posion bottle on the shelf hints at the murder to be committed later on.
25. The main problem in the story
26. Her smile is like sunshine
27. Characters who are highly involved in the plot; protagonist and antagonist fall into this category
28. This is the most exciting part of the story. It is the peak of tension, plot, and character in the story.
29. A character in a literary work who opposes or actively goes against the main character.
30. Examples of transition words used in a rhetorical shift.
31. What is the definition of malapropism?
32. Hickory Dickory Dock; the mouse ran up the clock.
33. What sense is being engaged most in this example:cinnamon-scented candle reminded of the Big Red gum my father chewed
34. Which is an example of FORSHADOWING?
35. "He saw nothing and heard nothing but he could feel his heart pounding and then he heard the clack on stone and the leaping, dropping clicks of a small rock falling."
36. The repetition of the sound at the beginning of a word (ex. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.)
37. An unexpected turn in the story that provides a new view or a new conflict is called a .....
38. What do we call the when an author makes an indirect reference to a figure, place, event, or idea originating from outside the text?
39. A character that experiences a change throughout a text.
40. I know one thing, that I know nothing is an example of
41. An example of dramatic irony is
42. When the character is speaking to you in the piece of literature
43. Seeing slithering snakes makes my spine shiver.Select the correct answer.
44. He drew a line as straight as an arrow.-He drew a line as straight as an arrow.
45. When the author tells the reader the character's personality ("he was so angry")
46. The author's main idea or message of the story. It is a universal, opinionated statement about humanity-not a single word.
47. This essay uses evidence and facts to prove whether or not a thesis is true. The essay presents two sides of a single issue.
48. Definition-a word' or thing's literal or main definition Example- "The blueberry is very blue."
49. What is the literary device that refers to the message an author wants to communicate through the piece?
50. Which of the following is an example of a primary source about World War 2
51. What does Santa Claus symbolize in the story we just read?
52. "You've married an Icarus; he has flown too close to the sun." This is an example of .....
53. The following is an example of what?In 1895, in a small town in Kentucky, there was a schoolhouse.
54. What literary device is used in the phrase 'as cold as ice'?a) Metaphorb) Similec) Personificationd) Alliteration
55. The bomb created a tremendous boom.
56. What is the Time and Place of the Story?
57. It is a word or phrase in which a part of something is used to refer to the whole of it.
58. Saying something is LUXURIOUS instead of EXPENSIVE is an example of using .....
59. "Sighing like furnace" is what poetic device?
60. Which literary device is shown here? 14 otio exsultas nimiumque gestis
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