Literary Devices Quiz 157 (20 MCQs)

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1. You can also download a multimedia presentation or play it live. It tells us about multimedia .....
2. "Boom, boom, boom even brighter than the moon, moon, moon."
3. As soon as he saw her, the prince asked for her hand.
4. A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two non-similar things.
5. In the play, what breaks the cycle of insults, injuries and revenge that traps Shylock and the Christian characters together?
6. Is repetition repeating the same word?
7. Which of the following is the best example of a paradox?
8. Refers to an author's word choice. Word choice can be formal, informal, colloquial or slang.
9. Life is a marathon, is an example of what?
10. A reference to something literary, mythological, historical, or biblical that the author assumes the reader will recognize
11. That hockey player is an animal, so you better avoid him.
12. "It was a dark and stormy night."This sentence creates .....
13. In the play, "A Doll's House", Nora stands alone on the stage and speaks to herself and the audience. "You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me. It is perfectly true, Torvald. When I was at home with papa, he told me his opinion about everything, and so I had the same opinions; and if I differed from him I concealed the fact, because he would not have liked it. He called me his doll-child, and he played with me just as I used to play with my dolls. And when I came to live with you-I mean that I was simply transferred from papa's hands into yours. You arranged everything according to your own taste, and so I got the same tastes as your else I pretended to, I am really not quite sure which-I think sometimes the one and sometimes the other. When I look back on it, it seems to me as if I had been living here like a poor woman-just from hand to mouth. I have existed merely to perform tricks for you, Torvald. But you would have it so. You and papa have committed a great sin against me. It is your fault that I have made nothing of my life."
14. Which point of view is the narrator "all-knowing" on the thoughts/feelings of TWO OR MORE characters?
15. -"indeed i never shall be satisfied with Romeo till i behold him ..... dead ..... "
16. Draco Malfoy was the opposite of Harry and JK Rowling used him to show Harry's good traits. What type of literary device is this?
17. What type of literary device is found in the following quite: "But what you remember most is this tree, huge, with fat arms and mighty families of squirrels in the higher branches" (22).
18. What figurative language is used in the sentence below ..... "I've got power, poison, pain and joy inside my DNA"
19. A metaphor typically uses "like" or "as" .
20. Define:compound word