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Literary Devices Quiz 46 (60 MCQs)

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1. What is the correct way to write act two scene two?
2. When the writer givers an advanced hint to what may happen later in the story
3. What is Ms. Leibforth's favorite color?
4. It is a literary device used when the author uses an object or image to represent a larger idea or feeling.
5. Where do you PEAE
6. That test was a piece of cake! Is an example of a/an
7. Tension in literature is created using conflict, obstacles, friction, a struggle between two things
8. "Metaphor" is a .....
9. The associations called up by a word that goes beyond its dictionary definition
10. Which word or phrase best explains what an image in poetry is?
11. A word or phrase that creates a picture in your mind or appeals to one or more of the five senses-sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell.
12. Rhetoric is the art of .....
13. Tobias was a green monster who was afraid of the dark. He'd scream whenever the lights were turned off. He went to a monster therapist who tried every method to teach Tobias that there was nothing to be afraid of. Unfortunately, Tobias never overcame his fears.
14. The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines
15. It's a group of cast members not involved in the plot who give the audience background information
16. What type of figurative language is shown below:I think I read a million books this summer!
17. Sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch details in writing
18. Example:Pretty Peggy posed for the picture.
19. A play on words involving a word with 2 or more different meanings or 2 words that sound alike and have different meetings.
20. I was as busy as a ..... as I rushed to complete my homework.
21. "My hand hurts so much it's going to drop off." Is an example of a .....
22. The theme is the underlying
23. In fiction, this is the narrator's attitude toward the text. In non-fiction, this is the author's/speaker's attitude toward his subject.
24. " ..... the only phrase of which I caught was ' ..... erected an absolute morphodite in that yard! Atticus, you'll never raise 'em!'"-TKAM, Ch 8
25. "The score was four to two, with no more innings left to play."
26. Which sentence is written in 3rd person?
27. "Nature's first green is gold" (1)
28. Which type of characterization best describes the quote below: "But I am so much more than that! I am a musician, and a swimmer, and a person able to make my own decisions."
29. "I dive into the stream of fourth-period lunch students and swim down the hall to the cafeteria" (7)
30. What is a character?
31. And Winnie, looking down, saw hostsof tiny insects skittering and skatingon the surface
32. Details the author gives to help the reader predict future events
33. A character who provides a striking contrast to a main character
34. The character who works against the main character
35. The use of exaggeration for effect is called .....
36. The ..... verb mood expresses an action under a certain condition
37. When the narrator only knows the thoughts and feelings of ONE character, but is not that character, what is the POV?
38. The use of informal words, phrases or even slang in a piece of writing.
39. Identify the literary device in the sentence:'His words cut deeper than a knife.'
40. Author's attitude or feeling about what he or she is writing about
41. Ms. Leibforth's first name is .....
42. A figure of speech and literary device that creates a heightened effect through deliberate exaggeration.
43. In Tangled, Rapunzel looks out the window and dreams of seeing the floating lanterns. These lanterns come to represent freedom to her. What is this an example of?
44. ..... is an idea or feeling represented by an object.
45. " The sun was like a large ball of butter", is an example of what literary device
46. A rabbit's foot and a four leaf clover are ..... for good luck.
47. Identify the figure of speech in the following sentence:That person runs like a road-runner.
48. His hands were as cold as ice. This means:
49. The Titanic was promoted as 100% unsinkable.
50. Shows events from before the present time of the story
51. Defining relative clauses
52. What punctuation mark is used when words are omitted from words?
53. What's the definition for metaphor?
54. Uses figures of speech to be more effective, persuasive, and impactful
55. This literary device compares two things, using the words as/like.
56. Definition-a figure of speech, usually one or two words, in which seemingly contradictory terms appear side by side. This contradiction is also known as a paradox. Example-The blob fish is pretty ugly.
57. "The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor ..... " This is an example of
58. Luella wants Roger.....
59. After he kills Duncan, Macbeth is
60. "The shady curtains from Aurora's bed" is an example of
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