Literary Devices Quiz 188 (20 MCQs)

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1. The example highlighted below is an example of? The moon never beams without bringing me dreams (one line)
2. The beginning of the story where the characters and setting are introduced
3. When speakers or writers alter their style or tone within the same piece of writing.
4. What is the literary device that compares two objects using the words "like" or "as" ?
5. Using words or phrases that appeal to one or more of the five senses in order to present objects, express ideas, or describe feelings and scenes
6. What does vivid writing always include?
7. Identify the literary device/ technique:The snow was a white blanket on the grass.
8. Which of the following nouns is a place?
9. What is the Rising Action of a story?
10. What does the word "Rhetorical question" mean?
11. Supporting character whose role is to highlight a major character by contrasting him or her
12. Jenna's house was destroyed when Hurricane Katrina blew through New Orleans.
13. Conversation between 2 people or characters in a story
14. Which of the following terms is defined as "the feeling, attitude, or atmosphere that the author has set in his/her story or poem" ? Ex. An author can describe his feeling or attitude calmly and with admiration, then shift his work to feel rigid and aggressive.
15. The end of the Conflict
16. Words that SOUND like the actions they refer to.
17. A ..... character undergoes important changes throughout a story.
18. "It was a peaceful evening; the sky was painted deep blue and the clouds were edged with pink and gold." is an example of .....
19. Which word is a Japanese poem consisting of 3 unrhymed lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables that is about some aspect of nature?
20. Allusion is a literary device in which