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Literary Devices Quiz 58 (60 MCQs)

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1. A related series of incidents in a story that build toward the point of greatest interest
2. "A great thunderstorm of sound gushed from the walls."
3. An indicator of attitude, emotion or thoughts through writing.
4. When something in the story gives hints at what will happen later on, that is an example of .....
5. A struggle occurring outside the mind of a character
6. Define:ALLUSION?
7. Which of the following was used as an example of physical humor in the first part of the clip?
8. What literary device is used in the sentence:'She is the sunshine of my life'?
9. What literary device is used in the sentence:'The world is a stage'?
10. I have five favorite foods.
11. What is the definition of Falling Action?
12. The attitude of the author/narrator toward the subject, ideas, themes or characters
13. How is Gothic literature characterized?
14. The main or central character.
15. Literary Irony is .....
16. The road was tight and winding as a coiled snake. What literary device has been used?
17. Jaylene, Jericho, and Amber are in a book club. They start discussing the role of irony in shaping a character's personality in their current book. What is your opinion on this?
18. A descriptive name or phrase used to characterize someone or something
19. A contrast or discrepancy between expectations and reality ..... between what is said and what is really meant, between what is expected and what really happens, or between what appears to be true and what really is true
20. Intense craving, loss of reason
21. Funeral:Which literary device does the author use in line 21?
22. This literary devices compares two objects without using like or as
23. What is the opposing force for the main character called?
24. When we want to play with words that may sound similar in pronunciation, but have a different meaning, and are used to create humor
25. Mood / atmosphere
26. The author's overall message to the reader
27. A struggle between a character and an outside force
28. The shaping of a text's meaning by another text.
29. This type of character is vital to the development and resolution of a story.
30. I love you to the moon and back .....
31. This figure of speech uses exaggeration to make its point.
32. The rain was a drum beat on the tin roof. Metaphor?
33. Putting events in a text in order from beginning to end.
34. The calm, soothing river water refreshed the hikers.
35. What is the narrator?
36. What does the term rhetoric mean?
37. A common expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally.
38. A concrete representation of an abstract idea, such as the mockingbirds, or the green light in Gatsby.
39. Example:My nephew is a monkey! He climbs on everything.
40. Choose the vocab word that best fits the sentence:The nomination of the Homecoming King will ..... the nomination of the Homecoming Queen.
41. A word that is formed based on the sound that is associated with its name
42. "Toot your own horn" is what type of figurative language?
43. Identify the main literary device used here:The snow covered the ground like blanket of wool. The chilly wind burned the tips of my nose and ears. I tasted the icy snowflakes as they drifted down from the sky.
44. What is the conflict type in the story below?12 year old Billy is running for his life from the biggest tornado in history.
45. The person who is telling the story
46. It is giving human qualities to inanimate things or animals.
47. Which literary device is one idea stretched over more than one line of poetry?
48. The repetition of sounds that are placed close together
49. Tone is the attitude the author adopts with regards to a specific topic, character, etc.
50. True or False-Rhyme scheme is part of the structure of a poem
51. Person, place, thing, or event that stands for something beyond itself
52. Without her glasses on, Judy felt as blind as a .....
53. What is this an example of? "An oak tree and a rosebush grew, Young and green together, Talking the talk of growing things ..... Wind and water and weather."
54. Which point of view uses a narrator or speaker outside of the text and the pronouns 'he', 'she', and 'they'?
55. What is giving human characteristics to something which is not human?
56. The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices.
57. Which of the following details provides the best hint about the landlady's secret?
58. Define "simile" .
59. An exaggeration in literature is known as
60. "The night was as dark as coal." This sentence is an example of:
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