Literary Devices Quiz 264 (20 MCQs)

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1. Paval is the school's head custodian. We see him sweeping the hallways, wiping down tables in the cafeteria, and mowing the lawn in the fields.
2. We can learn a lot about a character if we pay attention to what the character is thinking and feeling.This type of characterization falls under which category?
3. Which literary device is used to describe something by comparing it to something else without using 'like' or 'as'?
4. True or False:Stories usually have multiple settings.
5. What is a repetition of words, phrases or clauses at the start of successive clauses?
6. Which one of these words is not a way to say persuade
7. Which literary device does the author use in lines 23 and 34?
8. A word the sounds like it's meaning
9. What figure of speech is presentin this line? Plangere nuda meisconabar pectora palmis.
10. Giving or attributing human qualities to animals or inanimate objects
11. Tommy was caught in the bathroom jerking the gherkin.
12. A humorous use of a word or phrase that has more than one meaning (or two similarly spelled words that sound alike)
13. Spicy, tangy, salty, sweet, sour, bitter
14. I'm so tired I could sleep for one hundred years, is an example of what?
15. Which text evidence best describes the develop of his theme? Ambition Over Adversity by Tupac Shakur Take one's adversity Learn from their misfortune Learn from their pain Believe in something Believe in yourself Turn adversity into ambition Now blossom into wealth
16. Banquo's son.....
17. In one of Aesop's fables, four animals go hunting under the assumption that they will split their prize equally, but the lion, the most powerful animal, takes more than the other members of the group.What is the meaning of the allusion in the sentence below?My older brother takes the lion's share of the space in our bedroom.
18. Any person appearing in a work of fiction is called a .....
19. How can a person run slowly?
20. A comparison of two different things using "like" or "as"