Literary Devices Quiz 165 (20 MCQs)

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1. The sun hid his face behind the clouds.
2. A literary, musical, or artistic work that imitates another's recognizable style or pieces together a medley of often incongruous elements from a number of existing works.
3. Else if you would be a man speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today. The words in BLUE are an example of
4. " ..... bony muscles hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square." -TKAM, Ch 1
5. It was so cold I saw polar bears wearing hats
6. An alphabetical listing of difficult, technical, or foreign terms with definitions or translation; usually found at the end of a book.
7. Pick the hyperbole below:
8. "Living dead" is known as an .....
9. The towering mountains loomed in the distance, their snow-capped peaks glistening in the sunlight.
10. When the reader knows something crucial that the characters do not-often leading to a shocking outcome-this is the definition of .....
11. When words that appear in a sentence or a line of poetry begin with the same sound or letter
12. A character that does change by the end of the story is a ..... character.
13. At the end of the story, Roger wishes he could say more than "Thank you, ma'm" but he doesn't. What is the reason he couldn't do so?
14. "With torn and bleeding hearts we smile, " is an example of
15. What is an autobiography?
16. Vantage point from which the story is told
17. A loud crunch sounded when I bit into my taco.
18. A moment of sudden realization or insight.
19. Definition-gives human characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, or ideas. The non-human objects are portrayed in such a way that we feel they have the ability to act like human beings. Example-The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky.
20. "The road was an aisle of brilliant velvet dust."