Literary Devices Quiz 22 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the term for when the audience knows more than a character(s) on stage?

Correct Answer: A) Dramatic Irony.

2. Who is a character in a literary work?

Correct Answer: C) A person (or animal) that takes part in the action.

3. The contrast between what someone states and what he or she means

Correct Answer: A) Verbal Irony.

4. "Freak the Mighty" focuses on friendship and acceptance.

Correct Answer: D) Theme.

5. Can you play with me

Correct Answer: B) ?.

6. Never cracks a book

Correct Answer: D) Idiom.

7. In literature, what is mood?

Correct Answer: C) A literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions.

8. The dove is often seen as a symbol of peace.

Correct Answer: A) Symbolism.

9. What type of literary device is being used to put the events of a story into a sequence from beginning to end?

Correct Answer: C) Plot.

10. What is genre?

Correct Answer: B) Type or category in which a literary work belongs.

11. Character struggling against a law, a rule, a group of people, or an injustice

Correct Answer: D) Man vs Society.

12. Using the same word, phrase, line, or stanza two or more times in a poem is:

Correct Answer: D) Repetition.

13. Trust I seek and I find in you

Correct Answer: A) Anastrophe.

14. The devastating news left me feeling broken and devastated.

Correct Answer: A) Emotive language.

15. That new kid in science class is an Einstein!

Correct Answer: D) Allusion.

16. The contrast between appearance and reality

Correct Answer: A) Irony.

17. The arrangement of words in a sentence

Correct Answer: A) Syntax.

18. "It's like being a kid in a candy store" is an example of .....

Correct Answer: B) Analogy.

19. What is this sentence: "He was tired and hungry as a bear, but he still decided to sit down and talk to his mother."

Correct Answer: C) Simile.

20. What is forshadow?

Correct Answer: A) Create suspense.