Literary Devices Quiz 252 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the literary definition of a imagery?

Correct Answer: B) Language that creates word pictures and appeals to the senses.

2. "In Georgia there is no restriction whatever!"

Correct Answer: D) Ecphonesis.

3. The technique of giving human qualities to an object or an idea.

Correct Answer: D) Personification.

4. A definitive stance that the author adopts in shaping a specific emotional perspective towards the subject of the literary work

Correct Answer: C) Mood.

5. Which literary device is being used in the following sentence:'I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse!'?

Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole.

6. An indirect reference to a well-known person, place, event, or object in history or in a literary work, (literary, biblical, and mythological).

Correct Answer: B) Allusion.

7. "whose flameIs the imprisoned lightning" is an example of?

Correct Answer: A) Metaphor.

8. A description of something done by comparing it to something else

Correct Answer: C) Figurative language.

9. Which would be an example of irony?

Correct Answer: B) Looking at the approaching storm and saying, "Lovely weather we're having.".

10. Which literary device is defined as a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction?

Correct Answer: C) Oxymoron.

11. "The gracious green grass grew quickly" What literary device can you spot here?

Correct Answer: B) Alliteration.

12. Example:The low clouds bumped into and punched the mountains.

Correct Answer: A) Personification.

13. "So Eden sank to grief" (6)

Correct Answer: C) Personification.

14. The following quote contains what literary device: "A tedious brief scene of young PyramusAnd his love Thisbe. Very tragical mirth."

Correct Answer: D) Oxymoron.

15. "Lightning danced across the sky" is an example of .....

Correct Answer: D) Personification.

16. A TDA is divided into three parts which are .....

Correct Answer: B) Beginning, Middle and End.

17. Why does a poet often use repetition in a poem?

Correct Answer: C) All of the above.

18. A look back to an earlier event .....

Correct Answer: A) Flashback.

19. The narrator does not reveal any character's thoughts of feelings.

Correct Answer: A) 3rd person objective.

20. Figures of speech or vivid descriptions used to produce mental images; appeals to at least one of the five senses.

Correct Answer: B) Imagery.