Literary Devices Quiz 209 (20 MCQs)

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1. "Ben Shapiro is an alt-right sage without the rage." is an example of .....
2. This literary device is an exaggerated statement for effect
3. Luis regretted that he had not finished his homework and would get a zero for the assignment.
4. Read the following passage and determine what the word ..... tarnishing ..... means:One night, as I watched my newborn son sleep, studying his beautiful face, I suddenly became filled with fear. I was convinced I would screw him up-that all my problems would wash over him, tarnishing his perfect soul. Strangely, while panicking about my son's impending doom, Dad popped to mind. I sat there in the dark, surrounded by the soothing sounds and smells of my baby's room, and I thought of how Dad must have felt when I was born. I knew at that moment that he never intended to hurt me. I realized that he loved me just as I loved my son. I knew that he had done the best he could, even if it wasn't always very good.
5. Which literary device is used in the following sentence: "The moonlight danced on the water" ?
6. "The afternoon sun sliced through the cracks of barn walls." What literary device is used?
7. Which sentence is written correctly?
8. An apron of steam
9. The series of events that make up your story.
10. When a narrator who is not involved in the story tells the story; this is an example of ..... POV
11. Which literary device uses descriptive language to create a picture in the reader's mind?
12. The boy was dying to get a new school bag.
13. The basic information needed to understand the story
14. Read the metaphor below and determine the two things being compared:Her mind opened and sailed onto the gentle breezes of the ocean. Distractions tugged and thoughts tailed her. She almost crashed, but the tightly held string of love held her safely.
15. A figure of speech that makes reference to a well-known person, event, or place is called .....
16. Words whose meaning is NOT exactly as stated
17. Which literary device is this:the living dead
18. Identify the literary device in the following sentence:Cathy kicked the caramel-colored kangaroo.
19. A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont, who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. The words in BLUE are an example of
20. "I would Love you ten years before the flood, And you should, if you please, refuseTill the conversion of the Jews." (To his Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell). Identify the literary device used in this line.