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Literary Devices Quiz 93 (60 MCQs)

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1. When the author appeals to the five senses.
2. "She is a rose." This statement is an example of .....
3. The character is revealed through their personality, appearance words, actions, and effect on others
4. Honest about events that will happen later in the story.
5. Who turns out to be a man NOT "born" of woman but instead "untimely ripped" from the womb?
6. The beginning of the story where the characters and the setting are revealed. The introduction can also be called the exposition
7. -beautiful tyrant
8. Which literary device is shown here? 1 he seems to me to be equal to a god, 2 he, if he is right, will overcome the gods
9. "The moonlight painted the world in shades of silver." This line from a poem is an example of:
10. Which literary device is used in the sentence 'It is raining cats and dogs.'?
11. How does the use of foreshadowing enhance a story?
12. A feeling of fascination or excitement mixed with fear, apprehension or tension. This device is usually used in mystery stories or movies.
13. Which literary device gives human characteristics to non-human objects or animals?
14. Identify the literary device in the following passage: "They're half right. The United Farm Workers is first and foremost a union. A union like any other. A union that either produces for its members on the bread and butter issues or doesn't survive" (Chavez 4).
15. Seeing the future showed Scrooge that .....
16. When the writer evokes certain feelings-vibes through words and or descriptions in the text?
17. An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself, that stands for something beyond itself.
18. I am trying to solve a million issues these days.
19. This is just like that horrible story Kenny read me about that guy Nar-sissy who stared at himself so long he forgot to eat and starved to death.
20. This is a humorous play on words such as "That dreamers often lie."
21. What is a cliffhanger
22. "But she's like a dog that keeps jumping into your lap" (24)
23. ..... is the time and place in which a plot takes place.
24. If something is gnarly, it is
25. I'm as grouchy as a hungry bear is an example of
26. You got that James Dean day dream look in your eye.
27. The repetition of internal vowel sounds
28. What is the definition of fear?
29. From whom did the book thief steal a book?
30. In "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, Scrooge experiences ..... when he has his "Aha! moment"
31. You're barking up the wrong tree.
32. Racism, segregation, religious beliefs, environmental issues, being wrongly accused of something, and being ousted from a group of people are all examples of which type of conflict?
33. "The young man was tall and strong, with a confident stride and a determined gaze" is an example of what literary device
34. When something is described with person-like characteristics or actions
35. Which definition is correct for the following term:Mood
36. A word or line that is repeated to create a certain effect
37. Everyone keeps telling me nothing can go wrong, but all I can think of is the unsinkable Titanic.
38. An extreme exaggeration is called a
39. In the film and book Charlotte's Web, Charlotte explains to Wilbur that all living things eventually die. Charlotte then has to spin a web to save Wilbur's life. In the process of spinning her web, Charlotte expends all her energy and dies.
40. A comparison of two things, often using the words "like" or "as" .
41. Which term means a long speech or utterance by one person, especially in a story, movie, play, or comedy routine
42. Wake up with no jammies
43. If you need to look up the definition of a word, which is the best tool for you?
44. "Fair is foul, and foul is fair." This sentence is an example of .....
45. As the old man watched the boys playing baseball in the vacant lot, he thought back to his own boyhood and the friends he'd had in his home town. They'd cleared debris and stray bushes from a lot and built their own baseball diamond, complete with an elevated pitcher's mound. The old man remembered the feeling of standing on that mound, exchanging signals with the catcher, and winding up to throw a pitch.
46. The smell of homemade chocolate chip cookies conjured up the image of Susan's grandmother standing in a flour-covered apron.
47. Imagine you are going to a fitness center to work out. You see a person choosing to use the elevator to reach the gym located on the second floor instead of taking the stairs. What would you call this situation?
48. An over exaggeration used for a purpose
49. A famous person or figure endorses and supports a product. It connects the famous person with that product.
50. Which figure of speech is represented in the sentence " He is sweating like a racehorse. "
51. Fluffly flowers floated and flew in Florida.
52. To identify the differences between two or more ideas, characters, events, settings, etc
53. A boiled egg every morning is hard to beat.
54. "Polly Pocket picked a purple plant" is an example of:
55. A reference to another piece of literature or a current or historical event
56. The precise, literal meaning of a word.
57. Moves an audience from the present moment in a chronological narrative to a scene in the past. Example:A man is about to give a speech to a large audience on biology. Suddenly, he remembers playing with frogs and toads in his backyard as a curious child. He smiles at the memory and then begins to speak to the audience about a new, groundbreaking finding of frogs.
58. In the phrase 'The river sang a sweet song', which literary device is being used?
59. Manner in which a story is narrated or depicted and who it is that tells the story.
60. What literary device is present in the following quote? "The flower garden was stained with rotting brown magnolias petals and ironwoods grew rank amid the purple phlox."
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