Literary Devices Quiz 106 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which poetic device is NOT being used in the following sentence? Bobby broke a bottle-BAM; the beetles bellowed and bolted.
2. This is the feeling created for the reader in a literary work
3. A recurring object, concept, or structure in a work of literature.
4. Which literary device is shown here?658 sternere consuerant, sed et haec vilisque vetusque
5. It is a single row of words in a poem.
6. Identify the literary device used in the following sentence:'She likes to swim, hike, and bike.'
7. What is an expression that is not meant to be taken literally?
8. Detailed descriptions that appeal to the senses to help you see or feel the scene
9. Examples of this method of persuasion include statistics, research, data, and facts.
10. This device is a description that appeals to the senses (sight, smell, touch, etc.):
11. When the reader knows something the characters do not
12. Personification is not a type of figurative language
13. "Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower." (from F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby)
14. This is a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas.
15. The use of words that mimic the sounds they represent.
16. Which word means "very surprised?"
17. A comparison between two unlike things with a similar background; Shoe is to foot as tire is to wheel.
18. Narrator reveals the thoughts and feelings of one character
19. What is a polite, indirect expression used to replace words and phrases considered harsh and impolite, or which suggest something unpleasant?
20. Which of these is an example of irony?