Literary Devices Quiz 218 (20 MCQs)

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1. A third person in a play or story that has no physical being but witnesses all events and is all-knowing.
2. Which of the following means: "on the alert; watchful?"
3. The life lesson/message of the poem
4. "The couch has two personalities:'Melinda inhaling pepperoni and mushroom' and 'No one ever eats in the family room, no ma'am" ' (15)
5. Which bias is telling only part of a story; supporting one side and ignoring another perspective? (Also called cherry picking)
6. Read the following sentence from "Thank You, Mr. Falker" ."Almost as if it were magic, or as if light had poured into her brain, the words and sentences started to take shape on the page as they never had before."This sentence includes a(n) .....
7. What is the tone of the following sentence? "'Here we go again, ' he moaned, as he watched the other team score yet another goal."
8. When a character has a conflict with someone else
9. Two opposite ideas in the same sentence (ie "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ..... ")
10. What is a dramatic foil?
11. "Four out of Five Dentists Recommend Trident Chewing Gum" is an example of which fallacy?
12. Employs a narrator who tells a story without describing any character's thoughts, opinions, or feelings; instead, it gives an objective, unbiased point of view.
13. The emotional atmosphere or ambiance evoked in the reader by a literary work.
14. Simile or Metaphor? The assignment was a breeze.
15. This is the leading character of a story. They can be either good or bad.
16. I had to walk uphill 15 miles to go to school-both ways!
17. The label on the inside of a bathing suit reads, "Dry clean only. Do not get wet."
18. Writing speech exactly as it sounds, accents and slang included, is
19. "Her long hair is an ocean of waves" is an example of .....
20. In the sentence 'The thunder roared angrily', what literary device is being used?