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Literary Devices Quiz 31 (60 MCQs)

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1. Which literary device is being used in the sentence, "She's as bright as the sun" ?
2. Which literary device is being used in the following sentence:'The moon was a ghostly galleon'?
3. Is this logical?Blueberries contain antioxidants. Antioxidants are good for your health. Therefore, you must eat blueberries to be healthy.
4. Snow speaks to the people; it's falling above in the glooming sunlight. Its white, sparkling voice echoes as it falls through the air.
5. Red, silky, dew-covered, bright
6. "The cruel wind tore off the roof of the house" is an example of:
7. I reached instinctively for my knife .....
8. Maya was somewhat pleased when she scored highest in the school's calculus final.
9. I was tickled pink when I heard the news.
10. She had a photographic memory but never developed it.
11. Which sentence from the selection suggests that Suzy likes to play basketball?
12. The way an author feels about what they are writing about.
13. The attitude or emotion an author shows in their writing
14. The cloud looks lonely that floats on higher valleys and hills.
15. The bees played hide and seek with the flowers as they buzzed from one to another.Poetic device is
16. This is the feeling created in a reader by a piece of writing.
17. A rhetorical appeal that appeals to emotions; evoking an emotional response.
18. What literary device is used in the phrase 'the world is my oyster'?
19. In the passage from the Bible, "Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God." (1 Corinthians 10:31), which literary device is used?
20. The Civil Rights Marches led by Dr. Martin Luther King are historical examples of what kind of conflict?
21. Which story involves time travel?
22. The sentence "Her smile lit up the room like a sun" is an example of .....
23. What literary device is used in this line: "The one and only son of Tony, Montana"
24. When the reader or audience knows something that a character or characters do not know
25. Why did Liesel and her mother get off the train before they arrived in Mulching?
26. Appealing to credibility
27. The author tells you something about the character directly
28. What is the term for the use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities, by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal sense?
29. Homelessness amongst children has risen 25% in this country in the past decade
30. The introduction of the characters and setting of a story
31. "He was up before day-break, and came upon the Park with the morning, which was clad in the least engaging of the three hundred and sixty-five dresses in the wardrobe of the year." (from Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens)What does the personification in the above quote suggest about the weather in the park?
32. Choose an example of a Metaphor.
33. What is the following an example of?He's an awful man
34. What literary element is present in the line below:The picture of the cat was as foggy as Ireland.
35. What is this an example of? She was as tall as a palm tree.
36. Time and place the story takes placeEx:Elmore, Arkansas, 1900s
37. Omar was as white as a sheet when he stepped off the roller coaster.
38. Which of the following is an example of something that is "compact" ?
39. "Stormy and wet, stormy and wet; and mud, mud, mud, deep in all the streets. Day after day, a vast heavy veil had been driving over London from the East, and it drove still, as if in the East there were an Eternity of cloud and wind. So furious had been the gusts, that high buildings in town had had the lead stripped off their roofs; and in the country, trees had been torn up, and sails of windmills carried away; and gloomy accounts had come in from the coast, of shipwreck and death. Violent blasts of rain had accompanied these rages of wind, and the day just closed as I sat down to read had been the worst of all." The above lines are Pip's observation on the weather before Magwitch's arrival.
40. Which list shows the plot elements in the correct order?
41. What word describes a person, place or thing?
42. This type of rhyme occurs when words sound similar, but aren't true rhymes.
43. The type of conflict when a character is up against a natural disaster, a disease outbreak, or stranded in an isolated location.
44. An author is sending his/her message to the audience through this:
45. What literary device involves giving human characteristics to inanimate objects?
46. Author's purpose
47. Which sentence shows a correct use of Parallelism?
48. Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof(Pharrell Williams)
49. This literary device gives animals or objects human characteristics.
50. Unconquerable, unyielding.
51. "He felt like the stars had been pulverized by the sound of the black jets ..... "
52. Makes a comparison between two unlike things, implying they are identical
53. Overused idea or expression
54. The bells clanged and jingled and whooosh went the wind!
55. Two characters in a movie are speaking Spanish because they want to keep a secret from a third character who only speaks English. The audience knows that the third character was born in Mexico and actually speaks Spanish fluently.
56. ..... = A series of events that happen after the climax.
57. Night and day, Good and evil, Batman and Joker
58. Which is NOT an allusion Chesterton made?
59. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning. The meaning is implied by a sentence or word that is actually different from the literal meaning.
60. A ..... modifies/describes a verb, adjective or another adverb.
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