Literary Devices Quiz 144 (20 MCQs)

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1. The ..... verb mood expresses an action under a certain condition
2. When the narrator only knows the thoughts and feelings of ONE character, but is not that character, what is the POV?
3. The use of informal words, phrases or even slang in a piece of writing.
4. Identify the literary device in the sentence:'His words cut deeper than a knife.'
5. Author's attitude or feeling about what he or she is writing about
6. Ms. Leibforth's first name is .....
7. A figure of speech and literary device that creates a heightened effect through deliberate exaggeration.
8. In Tangled, Rapunzel looks out the window and dreams of seeing the floating lanterns. These lanterns come to represent freedom to her. What is this an example of?
9. ..... is an idea or feeling represented by an object.
10. " The sun was like a large ball of butter", is an example of what literary device
11. A rabbit's foot and a four leaf clover are ..... for good luck.
12. Identify the figure of speech in the following sentence:That person runs like a road-runner.
13. His hands were as cold as ice. This means:
14. The Titanic was promoted as 100% unsinkable.
15. Shows events from before the present time of the story
16. Defining relative clauses
17. What punctuation mark is used when words are omitted from words?
18. What's the definition for metaphor?
19. Uses figures of speech to be more effective, persuasive, and impactful
20. This literary device compares two things, using the words as/like.