Literary Devices Quiz 222 (20 MCQs)

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1. When an author includes a quotation from another literary piece at the beginning of her work, this is called a(n) .....
2. What type of characterization describes a character through their thoughts, actions, speech, and dialogue?
3. The main or most important character in a work of literature; the hero
4. Although he has facial deformities, Auggie struggles with being accepted by his classmates. This is an example of .....
5. Which point of view uses the pronouns 'I', 'me', 'we', and 'our'?
6. What is the tone of this passage:Tim Rutledge of Orlando, Florida, was on his way to Indiana to make a delivery Monday when he drove right into a snowstorm and his brakes froze. In temperatures of 42 degrees below zero with the wind chill, Rutledge pulled over at a truck stop and got under his truck to fix the brakes. While Rutledge was on the ground, the truck shifted and trapped him underneath.
7. What three ways describe the Connotation of a word?
8. What is the "claim" in an argumentative essay?
9. An omniscient narrator is most likely .....
10. The repeating of words or phrases to emphasize a point
11. A literary or dramatic character who undergoes little or no inner change; a character who does not grow or develop
12. A figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things
13. Max stood up like a struck match.
14. The sisters stood in the stairway spying on their mother
15. Sounds, words, or phrases used again and again.
16. What literary device is used?"All the world's a stage, and all men and women are merely players."
17. All of the following types of conflict are external EXCEPT
18. Names the literary device used here:On the sand banks, the rabbits sat as quietly as little gray, sculptured stones.
19. What is the following an example of ..... "Yeah I heard it through the grape vine ..... "
20. ..... like moist black velvet.....