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Literary Devices Quiz 37 (60 MCQs)

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1. Why doesn't Winnie ask the man in the yellow suit for help when she is being kidnapped?
2. Is this logical?A cow can be black and white. My dog is black and white. Therefore, my dog is a cow.
3. A literary device in which the author speaks or describes an animal, object, or idea as if it were a person.
4. When a character says something but means the opposite
5. What is being foreshadowed? The dark storm clouds rolled across the lake and Rebecca couldn't help but shiver. The ominous feeling the black clouds gave her made her pull her wool coat closely around her. She started walking faster and faster, hoping that whatever was coming would pass quickly.
6. The author's attitude toward the subject.
7. Which devices are used in Fiction AND Non-fiction
8. The purpose or effect of dramatic irony is to .....
9. PerspectiveRefers to the way a reader/viewer is positioned by the author in relation to the text and/or how a particular ideology is embedded in a text. For example, a feminist perspective.
10. When the audience or reader knows something important that a character in the story does not know, this is called
11. The child bounced the ball at the backyard barbeque
12. A struggle between opposing forces (often antagonist vs. protagonist)
13. What is a historical illusion?
14. Which is an example of description?
15. A theme that is found throughout all of literature in different cultures and in different time periods
16. 'The sea was as flat as a plate-glass window.'
17. Periodic Sentence-A long sentence comprised of several short balanced, dependent clauses ending with an independent clause that completes the idea.
18. Identify the literary device: "The tables folded like butterflies"
19. "The children were flowers grown in concrete gardens" is an example of:
20. Repetition of initial consonant sounds, like the "w" sound in these lines: "Once up a midnight dreary, While I pondered, weak and weary."
21. A conflict between two people
22. What literary device is used when a poet or author uses words to create vivid images in the reader's mind?
23. The rhyming of the end word with a word in the middle of a line
24. The sentences below are examples of Metaphor, EXCEPT.
25. A discussion between two or more characters in a piece of literature is .....
26. The perspective from which the story is told, 1st or 3rd person
27. What is the definition of alienation?
28. He-Man, Percy Jackson, Katniss Everdeen, Jack Sparrow are examples of what?
29. This is an example of which literary device? You're gonna leave 'em falling downBoom, boom, boomEven brighter than the moon, moon, moon
30. Gradually, the countryside became greener that I'd ever seen it before. There were lush fields and tall trees with no branches but great shaggy bushes of fronds at the top.
31. Telling someone how somethin g happened in order of events in which a story happened is discussing the .....
32. A Dynamic Character is:
33. What is the definition of context clues?
34. What type of poem is a popular form of short, humorous verse that is usually nonsensical and consists of five lines rhyming aabba?
35. What is a warning or indication of a future event?
36. Nothing annoys me more than rapidly clicking your pen.
37. End of the central conflict?
38. When the opposite happens from what the reader thinks will happen
39. Read the following passage carefully. Which sentence foreshadows that the wedding will not go as planned? Joe and Jill had been planning their wedding for months. In the weeks leading up the big day, they had checked the weather forecast obsessively to see if they would be able to get married in Jill's mother's rose garden or if they would have to move the ceremony indoors. All the forecasts said the weather would be sunny and warm, perfect for an outdoor ceremony. On the morning of the event, while Jill and her bridesmaids got ready, Joe and his groomsman set up tables and chairs in the garden. They decorated each table with a crisp white tablecloth and a vase of flowers. As they headed inside to change into their tuxedos, one of the groomsman noticed a dark cloud far off in the distance.
40. Which point of view uses pronouns such as "I" and "me" ?
41. Pablo and Kane were playing soccer. Kane started playing too rough and Pablo got very upset and pushed him into the net. What kind of conflict?
42. What is the definition for Pathetic Fallacy?
43. I'm reading a book about anti-gravity. It's impossible to put down.
44. A figure of speech involving a comparison of two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'.
45. The art of persuasive speaking or writing.
46. The use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, a thing, a place, or an experience
47. Which word means a poem in which the ends of the lines have words that sound the same?
48. What is the intense feeling that an audience goes through while waiting for the outcome of certain events?
49. Which of the following types of conflict is internal?
50. Name the literary device here:She is jailbait all set on a trigger.
51. Who is a protagonist in a story.
52. Human traits are given to a nonhuman thing
53. Are you hungry? Let's find a cafe for ....., ..... and ..... (use alliteration)
54. A direct contrast between two things.
55. Which of the following pairs is an example of onomatopoeia?
56. Choose the correct term for the following definition:A way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular place or group of people.
57. The use of objects, actions, or images to represent abstract ideas or concepts.
58. After I read over the material, it was as clear as crystal.
59. A contrast between what the character thinks to be true and what we (the reader) know to be true:
60. A ladder may stand as a symbol for a connection between heaven and earth.
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