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Literary Devices Quiz 117 (60 MCQs)

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1. What is the main idea or lesson learned from the story called?
2. Next Phoebe was surveying the lands with a lamp
3. "Ask for me tomorrow, and you will find me a grave man." Keep in mind that Mercutio says this after he has been mortally wounded. (from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet)What literary device is being used in the above quote?
4. What literary device is:a reference to a well-known person, event, place, literary work, or work of art?
5. Which literary device uses the same word or phrase multiple times?
6. Why is the house personified in the story?
7. "On the days he carried the watch, Jem walked on eggs." -TKAM, Ch 7
8. Provides background info about setting and characters; suggests conflicts
9. "I pity the fool, " is an example of:
10. When reading of literary analysis essay, you should focus on everything EXCEPT:
11. When a character has a conflict with themselves
12. Ambiguous is a(n)
13. The central, main character of a story is called the .....
14. "Her head is in the clouds."What does it mean?
15. A story within a story. It has a "surface story" and another story hidden underneath. For example, the surface story might be about two neighbors throwing rocks at each other's homes, but the hidden story would be about war between countries.
16. Many meanings of a word.
17. Definition:A common expression special to a language that doesn't make sense if you take it literally.
18. The fog comeson little cat feet.It sits lookingover harbor and cityon silent haunchesand then moves on.
19. Frolicking freely in the streets of France
20. Writing that is concerned with the beauty of language
21. An attitude of the author conveyed through the word choice and sentence structure a writer utilizes
22. Which type of imagery is associated with the sense of taste?
23. In the phrase 'The sun's rays kissed the earth', which literary device is being used?
24. Which device is "the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words" ?
25. I smelled the warm, sweet, all-pervasive smell, as well as the sour dirty laundry spilling over the basket in the hall. I could pick out the acrid smell of Claire's drenched diaper, her sweaty feet, and her hair crusted with sand.
26. We are in the cockpit of an airplane. The plane hits turbulence and the captain struggles to regain control. It doesn't last long, and everything is soon seemingly fine again. What could this be foreshadowing?
27. Language that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation
28. What mood is created by a setting in which all domestic functions are performed by machines and none by humans?
29. "The silence was as deep as the ocean." This line from a poem is an example of:
30. During a literature class, Anthony said, 'Time is a thief'. Which literary device is Anthony using in his statement?
31. What is "a figure of speech in which a thing, idea, or animal is given human traits" ?
32. What is resolution?
33. In "The Seventh Man, " which statement best summarizes what happens in theweeks following K.'s death?
34. What is the term for the perspective on events of the narrator or a particular character in a story?
35. He is as ugly as sin.This is an example of which literary device?
36. ..... is/are comprised of rising action, falling action, and climax.
37. "Hello darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you again ..... " (Paul Simon, The Sounds of Silence)
38. Directly compares two seemingly unlike things without using like or as
39. The person or character who actually tells the story, filling in the background information and bridging the gaps between dialogue. (See Point of View.)
40. Definition of Personification
41. "The stone was cool and frictionless under his fingers, like hardened silk."
42. A line that has five metrical feet each containing stressed and unstressed syllables.
43. This is a good example of alliteration: "For every failure the French also celebrated fantastic success"
44. Addressing an unseen entity.
45. Foreshadowing:Yes or No Luis shouted, "Mr. Sims, don't open that door! Who knows what could be behind it?"
46. What is not an example of anthropomorphism.
47. Which literary device is used in the sentence 'Both girls had curly hair, blue eyes, and ready smiles'?
48. When giving a human characteristic to an animal, object, or idea.
49. Read the quote and determine if it is direct characterization or indirect characterization: "He glanced at her face-her eyes, which were honey brown, and her nose, which crinkled when she smiled."
50. 'Go slow over the road' is .....
51. The perspective from which the writer tells the story (1st, 2nd, 3rd person; omniscient, limited omniscient
52. When splitting up scenes in a story that is called?
53. What is the purpose of a flashback in a story?
54. Which literary device makes a comparison by calling a person or object by the name of a different object?
55. The time and place in which a story happens.
56. An adjective or adjective phrase applied to a person or thing that is frequently used to emphasize a characteristic quality
57. Which type of imagery is associated with the sense of touch?
58. Miss K is taking a summer class. What is it about?
59. "Erna Schmidt was the exact opposite of her husband-a shy, petite woman, she was sensitive, and not entirely lacking in culture." is an example of what term.
60. What are statistics?
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