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Literary Devices Quiz 173 (60 MCQs)

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1. Gregor vs. Ulrich in "The Interlopers" is a good example of .....
2. Doodle does not believe he is able to walk. This interior struggle is known as .....
3. An ironic manner of criticizing someone or something
4. Red looked across the prairie. He didn't see anything concerning. He wondered why Texas Joe had hollered like that. Texas Joe turned to him. The ghost that Texas Joe had just seen was gone. Texas Joe swatted at the air. Now he felt crazy. "You have to believe me, Red. It was just here, " said Texas Joe. Red scowled at him in disbelief. "What was just here, Joe?" he asked. Red was angry with Texas Joe for disturbing his sleep for no apparent reason.
5. "Lightning danced across the sky" is an example of ..... (only people dance!)
6. Little flowers are very thirsty, you know! (page 34)
7. When an author gives a hint or a clue about what is to come next in a story
8. When an author describes a scene, thing, or idea so that it appeals to our senses (taste, smell, sight, touch, or hearing).
9. If we're going to finish this project on time, we'll have to burn the midnight oil.
10. What type of conflict did we discuss?
11. External struggle between two or more characters; may occur when a character has an argument with another character
12. Which is a description of a villain?
13. "After he ate the chocolate chip cookies, guilt poked and chewed at Anthony." What human characteristic is being given?
14. A nicer way of saying "You're fired" is "I'm going to have to let you go."
15. Narrator uses the pronoun "you"
16. ..... is a concrete or physical object that represents an abstract concept.
17. What is any communication between two characters-generally spoken out loud?
18. A poem that tells a story. It has a setting, plot, characters, theme, etc.
19. " ..... and turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts."
20. Cold, dark forests/thundered through the quiet wilderness
21. "My teeth chattered as the temperature dropped." What senses being used in this sentence?
22. "Fred ate five French fries on Friday" is an example of:
23. The heart-wrenching movie had me sobbing uncontrollably.
24. The time, place, physical details and circumstances in which a story takes place.
25. Seat of my sleigh
26. What type of Irony is used when one thing is expected to happen and then something opposite occurs?
27. An author states exactly the personality of a character
28. The art of persuasion using literary devices through speeches, media, or argumentation is called .....
29. What is MAN VS. NATURE?
30. The rain ran down the road.
31. The giving of human characteristics to something non-human such as an inanimate object or a concept.
32. Identify the literary device in the following passage: "That's the journey we're on today. But let me tell you how I came to be here. As most of you know, I'm not a native of this great state. I ..... I moved to Illinois over two decades ago. I was a young man then, just a year out of college. I knew no one in Chicago when I arrived, was without money or family connections. But a group of churches had offered me a job as a community organizer for the grand sum of 13, 000 dollars a year. And I accepted the job, sight unseen, motivated then by a single, simple, powerful idea:that I might play a small part in building a better America" (Obama 2).
33. Bird is a symbol for freedom.
34. "She was the most beautiful girl in the world" is an example of what?
35. What has words that consist of words and phrases that appeal to a reader's five senses?
36. The time period and location of a literary piece.
37. I can do a cartwheel! It's a piece of cake! What does the idiom "Piece of cake" mean?
38. Words like "the sloping porch, " "the chipping paint, " and "the rotting mold" are all examples of what?
39. Is the following a simile or not? Jesus is tall like a giraffe.
40. Interest and suspense are built during which part of the story?
41. Is this Imagery:I saw the stars in the sky
42. Why does Poppy fall into Glitter Creek?
43. Universal patterns in all stories and mythologies regardless of culture or historical period and hypothesized that part of the human mind contained a collective unconscious shared by all members of the human species.
44. "Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get. "-Forrest Gump
45. A feeling of uncertainty about the outcome of events in a literary work.
46. This is a kind of a narrative or a description in which the characters, setting, objects, actions or events represent an idea or concept and sometimes even another real life event. This kind of a literary device operates on two levels. On the surface level we have a narrative which has all the characteristics of a narrative/description and has value as a stand alone text. At a deeper level, it is a text which uses its elements as symbols which represent other ideas-abstract or concrete-and many a times convey a moral, religious, ethical or political message and this aspect is of a greater literary value. eg. Animal Farm by George Orwell. It is often called an extended Metaphor.
47. A cliffhanger is a plot device used to end the story in a complete closing
48. A group of worlds with a different meaning than the literal dictionary definition of each word.
49. ..... modify/ describe a noun. Ex:tall, pretty, smelly, fast, tired.
50. The author shows the reader about a character's personality
51. I am as angry as a bull at the rodeo. This sentence is an example of .....
52. The trees stood at attention as the majestic breeze ran through the town
53. You say something, but you really mean the opposite!
54. What is the recurring theme in The Alchemist that represents the pursuit of one's personal legend?
55. The act of scanning or analyzing poetry in terms of its rhythmic pattern is called:
56. Cool as a cucumber means .....
57. "As I breathed in with short, choppy, grieving, devastated breaths, I could still smell the scent of my grandma's perfume, and I could hear her laughing at bad jokes" is a description that employs:
58. A reference to something else. It's when a writer mentions a well-known person, place, or some other work or refers to an earlier part of the current work. Example:From the song by Taylor Swift: "That you were Romeo, you were throwing pebbles/and my daddy said 'Stay away from Juliet" '
59. The computer in our classroom is a dinosaur.
60. The exposition .....
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