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Literary Devices Quiz 57 (60 MCQs)

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1. Connotations refers to a meaning that is implied by a word. Connotations are often decided by cultural and emotional meanings. If someone called you childish, would it be considered a negative or positive connotation?
2. The clunker of a truck banged and clanged down the road.
3. Tongues of sandpaper lapped at my hands. The morning flew by as I filled bowls and changed papers. What are the blue phrases?
4. You are like a rain
5. The city I live in never sleeps.
6. This part of the story is the high point, the most exciting, dramatic part.
7. "Nory was a Catholic because her mother was a Catholic, and Nory's mother was a Catholic because her father was a Catholic, and her father was a Catholic because his mother was a Catholic, or had been."
8. Which literary device uses symbols to signify ideas and qualities that are different than their literal sense?
9. The selection of words in a literary work; writers use to convey action, reveal character, imply attitudes
10. Mental pictures which are created by descriptions of the senses, so that we can see and feel what the character is experiencing.
11. How many words in the following sentence should be capitalized? "A few days ago, my mother told my father, "i'm taking phillip to frankfurt, kentucky."
12. "Mom tore through my messy room looking for it."
13. A difference between what is said and what is meant or what is said and reality
14. A reference to well-known people, places, events, or literary works
15. Which literary element is being used when the horses freak out every time they say the woman's name, "Frau Blucher?"
16. Language that causes people to imagine pictures in their mind (touch, taste, smell, sight, hear)
17. The repetition of the same letter/sound in a sentence
18. A static character remains the same and does not change throughout the novel.
19. The attribution of human characteristics to something non-human
20. Who wrote ANIMAL FARM?
21. I asked the father for his daughter's hand
22. Let's play a fun game! Can you tell me what personification means?
23. This type of allusion refers to a variety of allusions that combine cultural traditions in a single work.
24. What is the purpose of onomatopoeia in literature?
25. What literary device is this:the same vowel sound appears many times in words that are close to one another. (a, e, i, o, u)?
26. Mountains of waves piled up on me.
27. ..... is the point in a plot that creates the greatest intensity, suspense, or interest; usually the point at which the conflict is resolved
28. In the meantime the sky begins with a great murmur of confusion, followed by a cloud mixed with hail, and the Counts of Tyria here and there, and the Trojan youth, and the grandson of Venus, fleeing in fear through the various fields; rivers rush down from the mountains. What literary device is found in lines 164?
29. I'll succumb to something that I summon soon, A solar shock of sudden sun or moon To separate semesters, I'm the same as school So search the sections, get to stepping fool
30. If you reopen that discussion, you will just be reopening "Pandora's Box!" This is:
31. The baby splish-splashes in the water.
32. This is an example of what kind of literary device:"Whoa! Hold your horses."
33. "Things gotta get better, I figured. They couldn't get worse. I was wrong." is an example of .....
34. "The streetlight was my security guard. "
35. What is the poetic device use in the word "he" in "like a thunderbolt he falls" in the poem 'The Eagle'
36. The repetition of the same beginning sound in 2 or more words
37. Which poem as a simple syllable pattern to set a rhythm?
38. A stop or a pause in a line of poetry-usually caused by punctuation.
39. Eerie elephants elevated their feet during their pedicure.
40. Uses words or phrases with similar structure to create symmetry and balance in writing.
41. An expression with a figurative or metaphorical meaning that differs from its literal meaning
42. What story is this from? "You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing."
43. Which definition is correct for the following term:Situational Irony
44. The yellow and orange leaves almost twinkled in the wind as the smell of fall drifted easily down the dry dirt trail.
45. To make a situation seem less important or less severe
46. The methods the author uses to present the personality of a character
47. Character that displays multiple character traits; complex character; a character that the audience knows a lot about; relatable character
48. A figure of speech in which an idea or thing is given human attributes and/or feelings or is spoken of as if it were human.
49. Dollar bills and tears keep falling down her face
50. What is the purpose of a catalogue in literature?
51. Choose the best explanation for the given metaphor: "His words cut deeper than a knife."
52. Luella gives Roger the money because .....
53. "The flowers desperately called for water" is an example of:
54. It is the central idea, message, or insight that a literary work reveals.
55. Who is the antagonist in "The Landlady" ?
56. The words or phrases a writer uses to describe persons, objects, actions, feelings and ideas while appealing to the five senses:smell, tough, sound, sight and taste
57. After he slyly removed Jeannette from the hospital, Rex Walls says, "You're safe now."
58. An exaggerated statement or claim not meant to be taken literally
59. The time and place in which the action takes place
60. A comparison of two unlike things by saying that one thing is a dissimilar object or thing without using like or as.
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