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Literary Devices Quiz 84 (60 MCQs)

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1. My room is a disaster zone.
2. The sequence of events that make up a story, including the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
3. "I leaped out the window and heard timber crashing and the flames roaring right behind me. I staggered, almost falling, coughing and sobbing for breath." is an example of .....
4. What is the term for a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor?
5. In the poem, "halfway home #2" Jackie wishes she had more time to do what?
6. When there's a punctuation mark within a line of poetry to indicate a pause
7. Brian was a wall, bouncing every tennis ball back over the net. This is an example of ..... ?
8. If I don't get that smart phone I will die!
9. The distinctive handling of language by an author.
10. Man vs. man can be described as .....
11. Which of the following is an example of personification? a) The wind whispered through the trees. b) The wind is blowing. c) The wind is strong.
12. The use of extreme exaggeration to provoke strong emotion from readers.
13. His tears were a river flowing down his face.
14. Which one describes a HYPERBOLE?
15. Which literary device is the repetition of the same sound at the beginning of words?
16. In Hercules, the audience knows that baby Hercules did not drink the last drop of potion. Hades does not know this and thinks that Hercules is mortal now. This is an example of what .....
17. I stand in the middle of the aisle a wounded Zebra in a National Geographic special.
18. Mike likes his bike
19. Morpheus' description of Odysseus: "He studied his face-the wide, grooved brow, the sunken eyes, the red hair, the jutting chin" (3).
20. " ..... and there's no pretending you are anywhere but in a 'concrete jungle' as my grandfather says." -"Raymond's Run "concrete jungle" is an example of:
21. To sing, play, or sound or speak with tremulous, vibrating sounds.
22. Paval is the school's head custodian. We see him sweeping the hallways, wiping down tables in the cafeteria, and mowing the lawn in the fields.
23. We can learn a lot about a character if we pay attention to what the character is thinking and feeling.This type of characterization falls under which category?
24. Which literary device is used to describe something by comparing it to something else without using 'like' or 'as'?
25. True or False:Stories usually have multiple settings.
26. What is "meter" ?
27. What is a repetition of words, phrases or clauses at the start of successive clauses?
28. Which one of these words is not a way to say persuade
29. Which literary device does the author use in lines 23 and 34?
30. A word the sounds like it's meaning
31. What figure of speech is presentin this line? Plangere nuda meisconabar pectora palmis.
32. Giving or attributing human qualities to animals or inanimate objects
33. Tommy was caught in the bathroom jerking the gherkin.
34. A humorous use of a word or phrase that has more than one meaning (or two similarly spelled words that sound alike)
35. Spicy, tangy, salty, sweet, sour, bitter
36. I'm so tired I could sleep for one hundred years, is an example of what?
37. Which text evidence best describes the develop of his theme? 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
38. Banquo's son.....
39. In one of Aesop's fables, four animals go hunting under the assumption that they will split their prize equally, but the lion, the most powerful animal, takes more than the other members of the group.What is the meaning of the allusion in the sentence below?My older brother takes the lion's share of the space in our bedroom.
40. Any person appearing in a work of fiction is called a .....
41. How can a person run slowly?
42. Telling a quiet group, "don't speak all at once" is an example of .....
43. Reversal of word order to create emphasis
44. Which of the following phrases has a more NEGATIVE connotation?
45. I'm takin this horse by the reins makin'Redcoats redder with bloodstainsWhich device is NOT present?
46. The star was a flashlight guiding me home.
47. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words, such as "doubting dreaming dreams ..... "
48. Your suitcase weighs a ton. This is an example of what type of figurative language?
49. Which of the following is: "descriptive or figurative language in a literary work; the use of language to create sensory impressions?"
50. Third person limited omniscient is when .....
51. An antagonist is a character that .....
52. The teacher saying "recess time" was music to my ears.
53. This is the set of ideas associated with a word in addition to its explicit meaning.
54. What are the sequence of events in a story called?
55. What is a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead, called?
56. A comment said only to the audience; the other characters on stage do not hear the comment.
57. Grandma Sands laughed just like the Wicked Witch of the West.
58. A story takes place in Ola, AR during 2016. This is an example of
59. Conjoining contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence')
60. Select the sentence that illustrates the use of proper parallel structure.
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