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Literary Devices Quiz 62 (60 MCQs)

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1. What type of genre best describes the style of dialouge in the play?
2. A character who changes
3. Main character in a story who lacks conventional heroic qualities and attributes, such as idealism, courage, and morality.
4. "He realized that the lantern was a great flaming eye" (6).
5. What should NOT be in your objective summary?
6. The eyes through which the story is told.
7. Irony has ..... kinds.
8. When a person intentionally says or writes one thing to mean another.
9. A central message or idea in a literary work
10. The distinctive way in which a writer uses language
11. A reference to a well-known thing the writer assumes the reader will know about.
12. He is as funny as a barrel of monkeys
13. What literary device suggests a resemblance or identity between two things?
14. Using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
15. The character says something but means something else.
16. Errors in reasoning are called .....
17. "She spun downstream like a whirligig." is an example of a .....
18. An animal or object behaving as if it were human
19. Compares to things using like or as
20. A lesson learned from a story:
21. A repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyme
22. The voice that tells a story
23. A problem faced by the main character.
24. The masks that the boys paint onto their faces symbolize all of the following except
25. Choose the vocab word that best fits the sentence:The children who got lost in the corn maze ..... in the darkness while looking for their exit.
26. "My plants are begging for water."This is an example of .....
27. True or False:Fable is the use of animals to teach humanity a lesson.
28. 'Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean? To me it means texture. This book has pores.' (p. 79)
29. This is a type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics.
30. Conjoined contradictory terms
31. After Jason accidentally bumped into Ace in the hallway between class periods, Ace flashed his switchblade and told him that paybacks are nasty.
32. "The wind whispered through the trees" demonstrates which sound device?
33. What is the definition of the MOOD of a story?
34. I promise that your smile ain't gon' never leave
35. "Life is a highway, and I want to ride it all night long." This is an example of .....
36. EXTRA CREDIT:gustatory imagery invokes the use of which of the following senses?
37. Exaggerated claims or statements not meant to be taken literally.
38. This literary device mimics the sound it is trying to reproduce
39. What is the "mood" of a story?
40. Excessive use of connectives (et.....et.....et.....et)
41. These details can be provided in a straight forward way or they can be conveyed through a character's interactions with other characters or the environment around them
42. The narrator is all knowing and can enter the minds of all characters. What is the point of view?
43. The feeling a text creates in the reader or audience
44. Johnny was slowly walking down the hallway when bell rang. The teacher, waiting for him to enter, said, "Slow down Johnny, you wouldn't want to hurt anyone!"
45. That girl is a diamond in the rough.
46. The moral or life lesson of the story
47. It was so cold in the apartment, he swore he was under a blanket of snow!
48. Which word means an exaggerated statement?
49. Referencing something else from outside of the story.
50. A character who is complex and fully developed
51. Which words build suspense in the following passage?Jessica walked slowly through the hallway. "Come out, come out, wherever you are!" she yelled. Since the room was dark, she had to feel around for the doorknob to the dining room. As her hand closed around the cool brass knob, she gave it a firm twist to the right, opening the door to the dining hall with a satisfying bang. The long table was illuminated by a stream of moonlight from a large bay window to her right, allowing her to see enough to enter the room. She giggled with nervousness as she took a few steps forward, stopping short at the sight of something shadowy moving in the corner.
52. Is a type of figurative language that compares two unlike things using words like and as
53. The tone of a dirge is usually
54. The outcome of an event is the opposite of what was expected is .....
55. What is the foreshadowing in this passage?It was only 5:00AM, so everyone else in the house was still asleep. As they crept through the kitchen to the back door, Mary sniffed the air. It had the faint scent of coffee and something sweet. She shrugged it off and followed Justin out the door, down the back steps, and out onto the boat dock. The fog had settled over the lake, making it impossible to see anything.
56. "Lord, help me! I cannot with these children!" my mother screamed at the ceiling.
57. The background information on the characters and setting.
58. "Come Liberty, though cheerful sound, Roll through my ravished ears!Come, let my joys be drowned, And drive away my fears.Say unto foul oppression, Cease:Ye tyrants rage no more.And let the joyful trump of peace, Now bid the vassal soar!"Which literary device is being used in the above poem?
59. What type of noun is the highlighted word? The United States Army had many requests from other branches of the armed services.
60. Read this sentence from Chapter 8. "I could see that even a few words were tiring him out; he was as pale as the pillow and looked awful." Which figurative language device is being used here?
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