Literary Devices Quiz 24 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the beat of a poem?
2. The time and place where a story takes place
3. "Boom, Pow, Bang, Vroom" are all examples of which of the following literary devices
4. A move to a scene in a movie, novel, etc. that is set in a time earlier than the main story.
5. Visually descriptive or figurative language is .....
6. ..... are the characters who are trying to resolve a conflict.
7. A type of irony in which suspense is created because the audience knows something the characters do not
8. This is a technique which the writers use to give the readers a hint of what is to come later in a story. Such communication can be made through a dialogue between characters or through a description of the ambience. A hint of what is coming ahead can be given through an incident in the story or even through the title of a chapter. This technique allows the authors to hold the interest of the readers.
9. Which of the following is used in the sentence? Stars twinkle like diamonds.
10. Which contest did Rudy and Liesel participate in?
11. The author's emotions represent the ..... of a story
12. Dominant idea or feature-recurring (i.e. money/finance in The Great Gatsby)
13. The teacher is like an angry lion when she is mad.
14. Which literary device is used in this example?I have told you a million times to wash the dishes.
15. And remember the old Saturnia of the war
16. Which of these sentences contains personification?
17. A form of verbal irony that is intended to mock or convey contempt.
18. The person or thing working against theprotagonist, or hero, of the work
19. An interruption in a story that shows events that happened at an earlier time
20. A book that contains information on many subjects; or comprehensive information in a particular field of knowledge; usually arranged alphabetically.