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Literary Devices Quiz 112 (60 MCQs)

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1. Delighted, peaceful, frustrated, and angry are all examples of words that could describe the author's ....., or attitude.
2. In "The Landlady" the conflict between the landlady and Billy is:
3. "Oxymorons are designed to have dramatic effect"
4. Bob brought the box of bricks to the basement.
5. A literary technique in which words or events convey a meaning opposite to their literal interpretation.
6. A non-literal phrase that has a meaning apart from the meanings of its individual words (i.e. having "a frog in your throat")
7. A narrator who knows everything about the characters
8. John jumped in the pool with a big SPLASH.
9. The two terms pummel and banish are rough and tough. Which of the following two terms show vulnerability and weakness?
10. This type of narrator is all-knowing:
11. The use of clues to hint at something important that will happen later in a novel or story
12. The following is an example of a ..... "Although it started to rain, we were able to ride our bikes for a little while."
13. Descriptive language which uses one or more of the five senses is called .....
14. The comedian was seriously funny.
15. The main idea/message of a literary work is .....
16. Something is expressed less strongly than would be expected
17. While I was running down the road, I tripped and fell up to the roof top.
18. 'Walking into grandma's house, I was immediately greeted by the warm, inviting scent of freshly baked bread and cinnamon.'Which device is this sentence?
19. But a better butter makes a batter better
20. The repetition of vowel sounds in the middle of words.
21. Jimmy and Eric compete for the same position on the baseball team.
22. A hint of what will happen in the future
23. TRUE OR FALSE:a story can ONLY have one theme
24. Those cute chesire cats chased the tops and marbles.
25. I smelled the burning and heard a horrible crackling as the fire singed my hair and eyelashes.
26. Identify the literary device used in the following sentence:'I've told you a million times!'
27. Allegory is a type of extended ..... in which everything and everyone represents something else.
28. Which definition is correct for the following term:Personification
29. O, Life, why are you so hard?Select the correct answer.
30. When a character recalls an important event from the past is called
31. Your love is cancer, death personified is an example of
32. What type of literary device is found in the following quite: "My mother's hair, like little rosettes, like little candy circles all curly and pretty because she pinned it in pincurls allday ..... " (6).
33. The opposite happens from what you are expecting
34. The words like and as are
35. Narrator is speaking about him or herself; uses pronouns such as "I, " "me, " "we, " "us"
36. What literary device is present below? Mr. Ordway snores louder than a frieght train.
37. I am a deeply superficial person.
38. When finding an overarching idea, general topic, or big idea of a text, you (as the reader) are finding the .....
39. The series of events that occur between the climax and the end of the text and lower the tension in the story.
40. The literary device, Point of View, means .....
41. The horse whinnied and leapt forward, eager to start the race.
42. An example of this device is: "Less is more."
43. The perspective from which a story is told, or who's telling the story.
44. Marisol Doesn't Match is what type of genre?
45. The laughter of children echoed through the playground, bringing a sense of joy and happiness.
46. The end of the story, where the final outcome is revealed
47. The story is told by one of its characters, using the first person
48. "Sweat slicking his skin"
49. ..... takes place when the audience knows what one or more of the people on stage does not know.
50. What does imagery do for the reader?
51. A sequence of related events
52. What is the foreshadow in this passage? "NOW, my dears, " said old Mrs. Rabbit one morning, "you may go into the fields or down the lane, but don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden:your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.
53. She did not realize that opportunity was knocking at her door.
54. Giving non-human objects human characteristics is .....
55. Why are mice afraid of porcupines?
56. What literary device was used in the following example, "The gate banged loudly and heavy footsteps came toward the door."
57. Which literary device uses deliberate exaggeration to make something seem larger or more important than it actually is?
58. The wind skipped through the trees.
59. Which point of view tells ALL character's thoughts and emotions and is told from the outside narrator? This is the ALL KNOWING narrator.
60. A movie you are watching shows a woman jogging in the woods. The next scene shows a mountain lion lying in wait down the path where the woman is jogging.
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