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Literary Devices Quiz 75 (60 MCQs)

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1. What is the correct progression of plot structure?
2. An author's style or manner of expression
3. "The sun was like a large ball of butter" is an example of
4. The point of greatest emotional intensity, interest or suspense in a narrative.
5. Identify the adjective in the following sentence:He banged his head on the glass door.
6. Igor is using which literary device when telling Frederick Frankenstein that his name is actually pronounced "Eye-gor?"
7. The category of art/literature grouped by similar form, style, or subject.
8. Anytime the author uses details to teach us about a person in the story.
9. Which of these is an example of exaggeration (hyperbole)?
10. Figure of speech that makes a direct comparison between two unlike objects using like or as
11. When the author subtly hints at something that is going to happen later in the text
12. Characters, objects, or events that have an abstract, or figurative meaning (stands for something else)Ex. George and Lennie's dream represents their freedom and wealth.
13. What literary device was used in the following example, " ..... the blinds were drawn & the fire burned brightly.
14. A scene that takes place before a story begins
15. "My instep arch not only keeps the ache, / It keeps the pressure of a ladder-round./ I feel the ladder sway as the boughs bend."
16. What literary devices is this?Saying "roses" instead of "flowers"
17. A figure of speech with contradictory terms or opposite terms appear
18. A hint beforehand that something is going to happen.
19. Which definition is correct for the following term:Imagery
20. What is the author's attitude towards Jody?
21. Is a type of literary device where an author ridicules specific people, groups or some aspect of society
22. In which of the examples below would you most likely find an alliteration?
23. The perspective from which a story is told. / La perspectiva desde la que se cuenta una historia.
24. "The specific feeling of a specific people at a specific time" is the .....
25. Choose the term that BEST matches the definition. the central idea of a literary work
26. What word modifies an action or state of being?
27. I've been to the dentist many times, so I know the drill
28. The writers usually emphasize a point in a funny manner. However, it is an exaggeration.
29. What is the FIGURATIVE or SYMBOLIC meaning of a word?
30. What is the purpose of point of view?
31. Which device is "a person, place, thing, or event that has meaning in itself but also stands for something more than itself" ?
32. Define connotation
33. The eyes open to a blue telephoneIn the bathroom of this five-star hotel.
34. What is a periodic sentence?
35. Who convinces Macbeth to kill King Duncan?
36. The use of the pronoun "you" is:
37. "The snow speaks to the people; it's falling above in the glooming sunlight. Its white, sparkling voice echoes as it falls through the air." This expression is an example of which of the following?
38. Which idea about life does the speaker convey in lines 5-10?
39. This is a technique of bringing alive objects and animals in the mind of the reader. This is a technique which calls for attributing human qualities or behaviors to animals, plants and objects to create a sense of familiarity for the readers and allow them to connect with the writer's imagination. This technique is used only for the purpose of building images in the mind of the reader.
40. Using statistics, data, and facts to convince someone to your way of thinking is .....
41. You will not suffer a similar punishment after me
42. Funeral:What type of literary device does the author use in paragraph 35?
43. The act or instance of repeating is this literary device
44. Exaggerated statements
45. One who does not change much in the course of a story
46. A character that changes by the end of the story
47. Giving animals or things human-like characteristics.
48. "but" or "however"
49. What a word suggests beyond its surface definition
50. What are the nouns in this sentence? At the park there were many ducks.
51. Life is a rollercoaster
52. What is the purpose of foreshadowing?
53. Clues throughout a text that hint at something happening later in the plot
54. The formation of a word by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent. ex:cuckoo, meow, honk
55. Inanimate objects that possess human qualities is the definition of what literary device?
56. The morning was cold with a bold statement.
57. After weeks of working late, Austin was feeling run-down.
58. Based on a person or event from history
59. It describe words that have the same ending sounds.
60. Example:The cup of hot tea was medicine for my soul.
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