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Literary Devices Quiz 4 (60 MCQs)

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1. Placing two ideas, words, or images side by side so that their closeness creates and original, ironic, or insightful meaning
2. What is the literary device that refers to rhyming words at the end of the line?
3. The narrator knows some of what's going on including some of the thoughts of one or a few characters
4. A Lion once fell in love with a beautiful maiden and proposed marriage to her parents. The old people did not know what to say. They did not like to give their daughter to the Lion, yet they did not wish to enrage the King of Beasts.
5. When a word or group of words repeat.
6. Why can't "trust" be a theme?
7. The representation of abstractions, ideas, animals, or inanimate objects as human beings by endowing them with life-like qualities
8. The author uses descriptive language and paints a picture in the reader's mind
9. The daffodils are "Continuous as the stars that shine/ And twinkle on the Milky Way, " This is an example of
10. ..... in fiction can be major or minor, static or dynamic.
11. "I woke up, got out of bed, pulled on my clothes, rushed out the door"
12. An author's purposeful choice of words
13. From Toy Story:when Buzz realizes he isn't the only Space Ranger .....
14. What is the "nunc", "nunc", "nunc" repetition of words called?
15. "In the midst of the waiting room's chaos, the patient boy and quiet girl were both well mannered and sat peacefully with their hands on their laps" is an example of .....
16. What is the sequence of events involving characters and a central conflict called?
17. The use of language that appeals to the senses and paints a picture for the reader.
18. What is a contradiction between two statements or between two situations?
19. Juxtaposition means.....
20. A pleasant expression substituted for an unpleasant one.
21. "The past, the present, and the future walk into a bar. It was tense!"
22. A theme can be one word, like "love" or "family"
23. The time and place in which a story, novel, or play unfolds.
24. The boy buzzed around as busy as a bee.
25. The old man took the handful of dust, and sifted it through his fingers.
26. In literature, a growing feeling of tension is .....
27. What we call the point at which conflict and resolution meet?
28. Which of these is an example of simile?
29. What literary device is most obvious in this passage? Snow White tried to look away from the apple in her visitor's hand, but she couldn't. It seemed so tempting and bright. She could imagine the crispness as she bit into it, and the sweet, sharp juice soothing her dry throat.
30. A meaning for a word or phrase that goes beyond the dictionary definition.
31. Character Motivation
32. The point of greatest tension in a story, where the conflict begins to be resolved
33. The applause erupted from the audience, a thunderous roar of appreciation.
34. Identify the adjective phrase in this sentence:The store on the corner was damaged during a severe hailstorm.
35. This literary element involves a struggle between two opposing forces. It is the main problem of the story
36. What literary device is used in the sentence:'I've told you a million times'?
37. What literary device is used in this line: "I could eat a horse"
38. What is a static character?
39. Why is a "stairway" particularly an appropriate metaphor to describe the wisdom of the mother who is trying to impart to her son?
40. When parts of a sentence are the same or flipped
41. Which of the following show the elements of plot in order?
42. ..... is a comparison between 2 things WITHOUT using "like" or "as", rather making one thing become something very different.
43. Which literary device is used here?- "I'm so tired that I could sleep for a week."
44. Why did Rudy Steiner put charcoal on his face?
45. Twilight Zone episodes often include aliens.
46. The use of MARTEMINDOMITUM to meanINGENTEM PUGNAM illustratesusing the poetic figure:
47. Traveling from Pennsylvania to Florida in January in order to avoid the cold weather but finding below-freezing temperatures once you arrived in Florida would be an example of:
48. Short stories should employ creative language choices to engage the reader's interest.
49. He said the flowers were waving hello
50. Which words rhyme?
51. When the author makes you think Xavier is the Hyde when it is actually Tyler is an example of a
52. "Life is a journey." This statement is an example of .....
53. Stating one thing is another to create a comparison: "He's a sly fox."
54. Time flies when you're having fun.
55. A struggle or problem in a story that the main character encounters.
56. This place is like the Garden of Eden.
57. "Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore" is an example of which type of literary device?
58. Identify the literary devices in this line of the poem.I WANDER'D lonely as a cloud
59. The idea, lesson, or message that a work of literature teaches or emphasizes to readers
60. Literary device that refers to language that appeals to the senses.
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