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Literary Devices Quiz 129 (20 MCQs)

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1. Is a word that sounds like the noise it describes
2. Imagery that appeals to the reader's sense of hearing.
3. Circular Story
4. The attitude a writer takes toward a subject or a character:humorous, sarcastic, etc.
5. Repetition of internal vowel sounds in neighboring words
6. What does the word "Theme" mean?
7. What literary device is used?"The splat of bugs was heard against the windshield as we zoomed by the swamp."
8. "Only the daisy trees were serene ..... they ignored the men and continued to rock the diamondbacks that slept in their arms. It took the river to persuade them that indeed the world was altered."
9. Love, loving
10. Shine bright like a diamond.
11. What is tone shown through?
12. What gives a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance
13. Identify the literary device in the following passage:(Scroll Down) "Do you realize that in no other country in the world with democratic tendencies is suffrage so completely denied as in a considerable number of our own states? There are thirteen black states where no suffrage for women exists, and fourteen others where suffrage for women is more limited than in many foreign countries. Do you realize that when you ask women to take their cause to state referendum you compel them to do this:that you drive women of education, refinement, achievement, to beg men who cannot read for their political freedom? Do you realize that such anomalies as a college president asking her janitor to give her a vote are overstraining the patience and driving women to desperation? Do you realize that women in increasing numbers indignantly resent the long delay in their enfranchisement?" (Catt 3).
14. This football team is a sinking ship.
15. A nice way to say something unpleasant
16. When the author explicitly or directly states what the character is like ..... tells you hair color, age, height, personality type, etc
17. As flat as
18. A literary device that uses objects, words, people, marks, locations, or abstract ideas to represent something beyond the literal meaning.
19. If only I could catch my dreamsand keep them in a jar.They would grow and I'd let them goto see how far they'd fly.
20. Identify the literary device: "I expected him to turn and walk away, but there were six stinging blows on the backs of my thighs, each accompanied by a whistle of air. I could feel the welts rising even before I straightened up. "
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