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Literary Devices Quiz 59 (60 MCQs)

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1. The water well is as dry as a bone is an example of a(n) .....
2. A word or phrase that is used to describe something that does not literally apply to it
3. Comparing two or more subjects without using "like" or "as"
4. The bee buzzed in my ear
5. The trees danced in the wind.
6. The use of words to affect a meaning other than the usual or literal meaning of those words is .....
7. The place and the time frame in which a story takes place.
8. You cannot talk during the movie so zip your lip! This is an example of .....
9. You have to be as busy as a bee to get good grades in high school.
10. Measurement of the positions and distances of stars
11. Compares two similar things by saying that one of them is the other.
12. Loose ends are tied up. At this point, the conflict(s) are resolved.
13. "He clasps the crag with crooked hands; close to the sun ..... " Contains the words clasp, crag, crooked and close.What is the technique called?
14. Sarah was accepted into her top choice for college, however, it is the most expensive one on her list. Should she sacrifice her family's wallet to attend the school of her dreams, or should she be conservative and consider other schools?
15. Hints that something is going to happen in the story Ex. George tells Lennie in the opening chapter that if he gets into trouble to go back and hide in the brush by the river.
16. Digital storytelling allows students to improve their knowledge and increases skills such as writing, researching and reading. It tells us about multimedia .....
17. A bee's buzzing would break the silence
18. Hinting at future plot development.
19. He passed away last night.
20. Which of the following is the best example of personification?
21. Which sentence shows a comma separating independent clauses (compound sentence)?
22. A / An ..... involves words with similar or identical sounds but with different meanings.
23. Choose the best explanation for the given metaphor: "Hope is on the horizon."
24. A grouping of lines in a poem, having the appearance of a paragraph
25. This literary device is usually found between quotation marks.
26. What happens in a story, told in a sequenced, chronological order
27. Which one is same as denouement?
28. How can tone help us understand a story?
29. Which answer below is NOT a foreshadowing technique?
30. "If we don't move soon, we're all going to die! Can't you see how dangerous it would be to stay?"
31. What is the internal conflict of Tell-Tale Heart?
32. What literary device is present below? Sadie sells shells on the seashore.
33. The diction of the characters helps the reader .....
34. POV:the narrator is the main character and/or directly involved in the action of the story. Uses first-person pronouns like "I, we, me, us, ours"
35. Figurative description or illustration using the five senses (sight, sound, tough taste, smell)
36. What is third person omniscient point of view?
37. You know Jenny the vertically challege waiter at Tripple century.
38. Fill in the blank with the missing words:A flashback is a ..... of a story where something in the ..... is described.
39. Which literary device gives human characteristics to something nonhuman?
40. That test was a piece of cake!
41. "The flowers danced in the wind" is an example of personification.
42. "He bought a donkey because he thought he might get a kick out of it" is an example of
43. Technology of spacecraft design and building
44. Do your math as soon as you are finished.
45. "The sound reminded me of pebbles, plunking into a deep pond."
46. "Hear the mellow wedding bells ..... "
47. What is this an example of? Her golden hair blew in the swirling wind and I could smell her sweet perfume in the air.
48. What literary device is this:the same consonant sound appears again and again in the same line in different parts of the words (example:look at the 'S' sound in this line:The first and last brush sweeps fast and best)?
49. Choose the best theme for this poem:Ambition Over Adversity by Tupac Shakur Take one's adversity Learn from their misfortune Learn from their pain Believe in something Believe in yourself Turn adversity into ambition Now blossom into wealth
50. Author's Purpose is the author's reason or desired outcome for writing a text
51. Words that sound like what they are meant to depict (i.e. bam, zip, buzz) are called .....
52. Where the true meaning behind a statement is intentionally quite the opposite of its literal meaning.
53. Which is an example of Foreshadowing?
54. What is the main difference between simile and metaphor?
55. What literary device is present below? "With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right ..... "-Abraham Lincoln
56. Lazarus's line " Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" is an example of
57. VoiceIn the literary sense, voice can be used to refer to the nature of the voice projected in a text by an author (for example, 'authorial voice' in a literary text or 'expert voice' in an exposition).
58. " ..... A wave picked her up and pinned her against another rock." is an example of .....
59. BONUS QUESTION:"I have butterflies in my stomach." This is an example of a
60. According to Friar Laurence (Act 2, scene 6) pleasure is as unreal as a spiderweb. The comparison between pleasure and the spiderweb is an example of:
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