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Literary Devices Quiz 175 (60 MCQs)

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1. ..... is giving a character personality, depth and motivation. Making the character 3D
2. Objective because someone else writes about the person of topic. The writer's opinions and perspectives of the details and events are expressed.
3. Which literary device is exemplified in the line 'The wind whispered through the trees'?
4. A group of words that has a collective meaning different from that of the individual words
5. The repetition of the same letter or sound in words near one another.
6. This is an element of a short story is referred to as the overall emotional meaning of the story.
7. ..... are works that provide an account of connected events. To put it simply, a ..... is a story.
8. When Cam noticed the gigantic wasp's nest, he took off like a horsefly from a swatter.
9. "I was talking to my friends at lunch today trying to explain what a metaphor is. Let me go back a few years and tell you a story that will help you understand figurative language." (This story is in what point of view?)
10. I've told you a million times to write your name on the paper as soon as you get it.
11. "Thy head is full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat."
12. A literary device that refers to the use of symbols in a literary work.
13. What type of character does not change over the course of the story, but stays the same?
14. After the ball was run over by the car, it was as flat as a pancake. What are the words in blue an example of?
15. I listened as my sister threw a huge rock into the river, and it went kerplunk!
16. "He saw the whole giant, tall as a tree ..... "(6)
17. What figurative language is present in the statement below?"Fear gripped the patient waiting for a diagnosis."
18. "lightning-flashing thunder-crashing"
19. "Dreams are balloons floating in the sky"
20. A similar dominant or recurring element in folk tales, advertising, or political campaigns
21. Before the teacher could assign homework, the class was saved by the bell.
22. Creates a picture in the reader's mind by making the reader see, hear, taste, smell, or touch what is being described
23. ANIMAL FARM was published at the end of:
24. What literary device is used in the sentence 'The sun smiled at us'?
25. Used step-by-step in literature to highlight and explain the details about a character in a story. It is in the initial stage in which the writer introduces the character with noticeable emergence. After introducing the character, the writer often talks about his behavior; then, as the story progresses, the thought-processes of the character.
26. What is the definition of caesura in poetry?
27. My father just gave me the talk about the birds and the bees.
28. When you as the reader know everything A-Dawg is thinking and feeling, this is ..... point of view, or all knowing
29. "It was raining, a slow, cold drizzle that for weeks had been descending from soggy black clouds. The graveyard was a slough of yellow, sucking mud, from which the rain-washed tombstones stood up in irregular battalions." (from Henry Kuttner's "The Graveyard Rats")Which literary device is being utilized throughout the above quote?
30. "It's so dark, " he thought, "that I could sleep without closing my eyes."
31. Which of the following is used in the sentence? Christian is a hungry wolf.
32. All that buzz, buzz, buzz and pop, pop, pop!
33. The city was a jungle is an example of .....
34. What is the term for the repetition of initial consonant sounds in a series of words?
35. Your brain is the size of a pea!
36. In literature, a symbol is an object that represents a .....
37. When the writer tells you something about the character directly.
38. The bees were buzzing all day long. What is the literary device used here?
39. Which of the following refers to using LIKE or AS to make a direct comparison between two unlike things?
40. The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, often lacking meaningful content.
41. Which literary device is used to give human qualities to non-human objects or animals?
42. Who is an evil owl who rules over Dimwood Forest?
43. Which of the following sounds like the best definition of literary analysis?
44. These are the two personal pronouns which SHOULD NOT appear in an essay
45. A recurring idea, often times sounds as advice.
46. The time, place, societal situation, and weather in which the action of a narrative occurs.
47. A type of metaphor attributing human feelings to an object.
48. Define "epithet"
49. Which of the following sensory images is expressed in lines 3 to 7?
50. Once upon a time, there was a little girl who lived with her mother. Her mother asked her to take her old and lonely grandmother some food one day. "Don't stop along the way. Go straight to your Grandma's house and back. Don't talk to any strangers and watch out for the wolf in the woods! Now get along!" Which sentence is an example of foreshadowing?
51. Mary looked away and shifted her feet when her father asked where the money went.
52. What is a comparison made directly or indirectly without using 'like' or 'as'?
53. A rhetorical appeal that appeals to ethics; credibility of source. Ex:A Nike commercial with Lebron James.
54. Difference between appearance and reality.
55. A hint as to the outcome of a conflict or "the" conflict (denouement) is known as .....
56. The use of figurative language to evoke a sensory experience or create a picture with words for the reader; writers appeal to ALL of the reader's senses to evoke emotion and feeling
57. Writing or saying one thing but meaning the opposite is .....
58. -"wedded to calamity"
59. The clouds are cotton balls in the sky.This is an example of which literary device?
60. Comparison of two things without using 'like' or 'as'
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