Literary Devices Quiz 140 (20 MCQs)

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1. When the character faces an inside opposition.
2. Conflict that exists between a person and himself or herself
3. What literary device represents a thing or abstraction as having human characteristics?
4. Which POV uses "I, me, and my" to tell a story?
5. Thunder rolled across the sky, shaking the house as if it were made of cards. The wind howled and moaned. The children tiptoed down the stairs holding tightly to the railing. The sounds of the storm had made it impossible for them to stay upstairs. They decided they wanted to be downstairs with their parents.Which describes the mood of the passage?
6. Point-of-View is:
7. All the world's a stage, and all the men and women [are] players.
8. "The latest proposal will not stop the steady declines of the coal industry." is an example of .....
9. When your parents learn about your new plan to raise money, it's going to sink like the Titanic.
10. Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken" has a deeper meaning. Robert Frost is encouraging people to follow their own path.
11. The moon smiled down on us.
12. The usage of words in a way to create musical effect. It can be internal rhyme or end rhyme.
13. Something that stands for or represents something else (ex:heart represents love)
14. Parallelism creates a parallel position between opposite ideas through grammatical elements as a means of emphasizing contrast. / Parallelism:Create a parallel position between opposing ideas through grammatical elements as a way to emphasize contrast.
15. Her eyes were as big as saucers.
16. Background information necessary in order to understand a story
17. Which is the correct end mark for this sentence? What an amazing sight it must have been
18. "Maybe she's born with it, maybe it's Maybelline!"
19. A prediction, omen, or hint of what is to come in a story:
20. Refers to the overall feeling of a piece of writing