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Literary Devices Quiz 165 (60 MCQs)

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1. The clock is the keeper of time.
2. A conversation or an event that happened before the beginning of the story.
3. What is this?"She was rich."
4. What is the following an example of ..... "The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky ..... are also on the faces of the people passing by. I see friends shaking hands saying how do you do. They're really saying I love you."
5. Language that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation-ex. simile, metaphor
6. You are throwing money down the drain. or The apple does not fall far from the tree. These are examples of .....
7. And the goddess shed much cloud around her with her cloak
8. "I simultaneously composed and destroyed the opera while writing it" is an example of what kind of literary device?
9. The headphone explodes, || breaking the mold
10. What is the meaning of this simile?My mom can be as fiery as a volcano when I don't do my chores on time.
11. A story or tale with two or more levels of meaning-a literal level and a symbolic level.
12. What is the term for contradictions in which something that was supposed to happen is replaced with an unpredictable occurrence?
13. Explain Metaphor.
14. An exaggeration that cannot possibly be true.
15. Touch/feel imagery
16. Which literary device is shown here? 9 lingua sed torpet, tenuis sub artus10 flamma demanat, sonitu suopte11 tintinant aures, gemina teguntur12 lumina nocte,
17. Movies bore Darry to death.
18. " ..... they liked storms; storms meant shipwrecks. Shipwrecks meant sailors struggling in the sea ..... (3)
19. What literary device is illustrated in the sentence below:The president is injured when a Secret Service agent knocks him down while protecting him.
20. Which IS an example of APPROXIMATE or SLANT Rhyme
21. "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness." In Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl, " this line is an example of:
22. What literary device is used here:The sycamore leaves whispered in a little night breeze.
23. " ..... right now District 12 is the laughingstock of Panem, and he knows it."
24. This is anything that stands for or represents something else.
25. A sudden revelation, realization or flash of insight a character makes or experiences
26. Which of the following is a euphemism?
27. Joe the baby grabber is an example of .....
28. A struggle between a character and an outside force (another character or nature)
29. Which of the following means "making fun of something by using the multiple meanings of a word" ?
30. An adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned
31. A play on words that are identical or similar in sound but have very different meanings.
32. "His father ..... lecturing endlessly about his poor efforts in math, " is an example of which literary device?
33. Assuming the outcome of an event based on previous events is what kind of rhetoric?
34. Which word means a conversation between characters or speakers in a literary work or the speech of characters in a drama?
35. A type of figurative language that gives human qualites (actions) to nonhuman things like "The wind sang a song."
36. An idea or feeling that a word invokes for a person in addition to its literal or primary meaning
37. When ideas, actions, or objects are described in non-literal terms; when an author compares one thing to another.
38. Elyan and Adrian were discussing about their English homework. Elyan asked Adrian, 'What is the literary definition of a imagery?'
39. The following is an example of what type of literary device:Heather is a beautiful snowflake.
40. Which is the significant literary device in the following quote: " ..... but it would explain a lot. Why Dad left home as soon as he could. Why he drank so much and why he got so angry. Why he never wanted to visit Welch when we were younger. Why he at first refused to come to West Virginia with us and only at the last possible moment overcame his reluctance and jumped into the car. Why he was shaking his head so hard, almost like he wanted to put his hands over his ears, when I tried to explain what Erma had been doing to Brian."
41. We can learn a lot about a character if we pay attention to what the character says and how the character says it. This type of characterization is under which category?
42. What does it mean when you tell someone to break a leg?
43. Tall, dark and handsome is an example of .....
44. Which literary device is shown here? 2 nec bello pede ..... 6 ten provincia narrat esse bellam?
45. When an object represents a bigger concept or idea
46. Looking at her child's messy room, Mom says, "Wow, you could win an award for cleanliness!"
47. ".....and the falling starry sleeps." This is an example of:
48. An underlying message about life or human nature-that an author wants readers to take away from a text.
49. What character trait is revealed in this passage? Jonathan looked at the homeless dog walking down the street of his neighborhood. He approached the dog, slowly cautiously, with his hands stretched outward. After gaining his trust, Jonathan took the dog home, gave him a warm bath, and big bowl of food.
50. What literary device is present in the following quote? "[the wind] ..... blew the fallen oaks around, snapping their roots and tearing them out of the earth like a hawk at the entrails of a chicken."
51. LAST CHANCE:how many tests must you pass to receive your high school diploma?
52. When the audience knew Juliet was not dead, but Romeo did not know, it is an example of ..... irony.
53. "She sang of his love forever" is an example of:
54. The narrator tells what only one character thinks, feels, and observes
55. A use of an incorrect word in place of a similar sounding word that results in a nonsensical and humorous expression
56. A figure of speech in which abstract ideas and principles are described in terms of characters, figures, and events. It can be employed in prose and poetry to tell a story, with a purpose of teaching or explaining an idea or a principle is known as
57. A vowel followed by 2 consonants is .....
58. Which literary device is shown here?29 per ego haec loca plena timoris, 30 per Chaos hoc ingens vastique silentia regni,
59. ..... is the moral or lesson the author is trying to impart or teach.
60. What is a deliberate repetition of a part of the sentence?
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