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Literary Devices Quiz 114 (60 MCQs)

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1. -"no. tis not so deep as a well, nor as wide as a church door"
2. A brief reference to a significant person, event, or place is known as which literary device?
3. The string was strong is an example of
4. BAM! The door shut behind me. This is an example of .....
5. A pair of rhymed lines at the end of a stanza
6. Tracy and Lydia are new students in a school. To make themselves seem more interesting, they speak in French accents and pretend they have just moved here from Paris. The audience knows that many of the students actually are from France and have moved to the area because their parents work for a local business, so they know Tracy and Lydia are faking it.
7. I like to eat fish.
8. The giving of human-like traits to inanimate objects is .....
9. Highest point of interest
10. The use of harsh or clashing sounds; often used in descriptions of war, violence, hate, et cetera
11. Which word means an exaggeration or overstatement?
12. The clouds raced around the mountain.
13. Stories that come from the author's imagination
14. A central character in a story, movie, or drama who lacks conventional heroic attributes (morality, idealism, courage etc.)
15. What does explicit mean in a writing context?
16. The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.Eg 'sweet birds sang'
17. Does not change during the course of the story.
18. True or False-Symbolism is the practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character. (If you get this wrong that's just sad.)
19. Choose the correct alliteration example
20. Descriptive and figurative language to create a picture in the reader's mind, especially referring to the senses.
21. The repetition of words that begin with the same sound
22. A situation in which a character must choose between two course of action, both undesirable
23. A figure of speech which contains word that contradicts with each other is called .....
24. Identify the type of irony:In Toy Story, human characters are not aware that the toys speak and move, but the audience is.
25. A story or tale with two or more levels of meaning:a literal and one or more symbolic levels
26. Identify the following literary device in the passage: "What is indifference? Etymologically, the word means "no difference." A strange and unnatural state in which the lines blur between light and darkness, dusk and dawn, crime and punishment, cruelty and compassion, good and evil" (Weisel 2).
27. "She did not realize that opportunity was knocking at her door" is .....
28. The fable "The Tortoise and the Hare" is an example of this.
29. When and where a story (or scene of a story) takes place is the
30. What is a character's attributes?
31. A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind. Usually uses like or as.Eg His room was like a pig sty.
32. Events after the turning point that begin to resolve the story
33. Words and phrases that paint a pictureand appeal to the readers 5 senses (sight, hearing, touch, smell or taste)
34. It rains on Mary's wedding day.
35. Literary conflict (man vs. man, self, nature, etc.) is a .....
36. It is also known as a rhetorical device.
37. Which of the following is NOT a form of conflict?
38. "If Mrs. Butler or Sam is talking to me, I can't hear either of them. The only thing I hear is the sound of my own pulse pounding in my ears. The way it would if I'd run all the way back. Just the boom-boom-boom of my heart and the strange swish of the sprinkler next door. A shush-shush followed by a metallic rat-a-tat-tat. Like firecrackers going off" (48). Patterson, Valerie O. Operation Oleander. Boston:Clarion Books, 2013.
39. It was an open secret.
40. A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables is called
41. O Captain! My Captain! Rise up and hear the bells;Rise up-for you the flag is flung-for you the bugle blows .....
42. The character or force that opposes the main character is called the .....
43. This can be demonstrated with descriptive details, clues in the dialogue, character/place names, etc.
44. Symbolism is when something in the text ..... something else.
45. What literary device is being used in the phrase 'The world is a stage'?
46. The comparison of two unlike things which no word of comparison (like or as) are used
47. To be in partnership with someone.
48. "The leaves danced in the wind." This sentence is an example of .....
49. "The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed:It was past eight thirty and still light."
50. A girl wakes up late for school and quickly rushes to get there. As soon as she arrives, though, she realizes that it's Saturday and there is no school.What kind of irony is this?
51. Use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities, by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal sense
52. A book written about one's own life is called
53. The person who tells the story. Could be first, second or third person.
54. Which does not belong to the group?
55. "Mr. Neck makes a note in his book. 'I knew you were trouble the first time I saw you. I've taught here for twenty-four years and I can tell what's going on in a kid's head just by looking in their eyes" ' (9)
56. The teller of the story.
57. What is the purpose of using understatement in a political cartoon, according to Trisha, Savar and Shaurya?
58. Juxtaposes concepts with opposing meanings within a word or phrase that creates an apparent self-contradiction. Can be used to illustrate a a paradox.
59. Which part of a story's plot shows the final outcome?
60. What is main character of a story called?
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