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Literary Devices Quiz 82 (60 MCQs)

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1. What character trait is revealed? After pulling an all-nighter studying, Sarah moved through the dance routine sluggishly. She was off beat and missed several moves.
2. The differ the difference between mood and tone is that mood is how the story feels, and tone is the author's feelings.
3. Something that stands for itself but also for something beyond itself and which quickly communicates complicated ideas.
4. EXAMPLE:A crown is often used to represent royalty or power. In stories, when a character wears a crown, it can represent that they are a king or queen.
5. "Alone together" is an example of .....
6. Choose the phrase that creates parallelism.Last summer I learned to play tennis, to swim, and .....
7. During a baseball game, Tanner tried to tag a player leaving first base. When the umpire called the player out, Tanner immediately informed the umpire that he in fact did not tag the runner. Two weeks later, the very same umpire was at another one of Tanner's baseball games. Tanner was playing short stop and tagged a runner as they approached third base. When the umpire called the player safe, Tanner didn't say a word, but the umpire noticed the surprised look on Tanner's face. "Did you tag the runner?" she asked Tanner. When Tanner told her that he did tag the runner, the umpire changed her decision and called the player out. The coaches and parents were furious, but the umpire stood by her decision. What is the theme?
8. How speakers/writers communicate/tell their stories (consider diction, sentence structure, use of figurative language)
9. The narrator stands outside the story and comments on the action in which point of view?
10. Which line is a Hyperbole?
11. Compares two unlike things
12. The person or circumstance fighting against the main character is:
13. Which literary device is used in the sentence 'The leaves danced in the wind.'?
14. What is the figure of speech that uses metaphor or simile to produce a heightened effect?
15. The giant tree was ablaze with red, orange, and gold leaves. This is an example of .....
16. What is the action verb in the sentence? My mother carried the platter.
17. A character might struggle with an emotional problem such as dealing with a difficult decision. This is an example of an .....
18. A reference to a well known person, event, bible story, mythology, etc
19. The books fell on the table with a loud thump.
20. A very short story that has a moral or life lesson, usuallly has talking animals-usually has talking animals as main characters
21. "Society everywhere is in a conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members." The above passage is an example of
22. Which of the following is the definition of theme?
23. The definition of hyperbole is:
24. Situation's atmosphere and character's feelings
25. The professor praised his pupil's flowery prose.
26. A distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition:
27. The blue Mustang was circling the park slowly.
28. The figure of speech that emphasizes something by discussing its opposite
29. An element at the beginning of a work that provides necessary background information about the characters and their circumstances.
30. Narratives are written without traditionally recognizable plots and yet still evoke in you a feeling that you are going somewhere when you read it.
31. This is an element of a story which is defined as the sequence of events that occurs from the first line to the last.
32. He was as blind as a bat
33. The atmosphere or feeling in a literary work is called the .....
34. What is an example of narration?
35. Burr, check what we gotMister Lafayette, hard rock like LancelotWhat device is NOT in the sentence
36. An author's word choice (ex:formal, informal, slang, etc)
37. What type of literary device is found in the following quite: "Until then I am a red balloon, a balloon tied to an anchor" (9).
38. What can a light bulb symbolize?
39. I could have slept for a hundred years.
40. What is the definition of hope and hopelessness?
41. He was nervous, very very nervous. This is an example of .....
42. You really are the apple of my eye
43. Group of lines in a poem-paragraph
44. Let's play a fun game of 'Guess the Literary Device'! Can you tell what the following example is demonstrating?'The dove is often used as a symbol of peace'
45. The way a writer uses language to convey a meaning
46. What is the literary device that refers to two rhyming words juxtaposed inside of the line?
47. What are all the events before the climax called?
48. A flashback is .....
49. Personification is giving human characteristics to objects
50. What are archetypes?
51. "He lists the disasters, the droughts, the storms, the fires, the encroaching seas that swallowed up so much of the land ..... "
52. The protagonist of a story is .....
53. A reference to someone or something in pop culture is called .....
54. ..... is the use of an object to represent a concept
55. A type of fallacy where things are either BLACK or WHITE. There are no shades of gray.
56. What is the theme of a literary work?
57. Series of events that lead up to the highest point of intensity in the story.
58. Which literary device is shown here? 5 ..... misero quod omnis
59. An author or speaker purposely and obviously exaggerates to an extreme. It is used for emphasis or as a way of making a description more creative and humorous. It is important to note that hyperbole is not meant to be taken literally; the audience knows it's an exaggeration.Example:That suitcase weighs a ton!
60. The repetition of initial consonant sounds used especially in poetry to emphasize and link words as well as to create pleasing, musical sound
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