Literary Devices Quiz 270 (20 MCQs)

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1. A scene set in a time earlier than the main story; a memory
2. IronyIn the movie, "Toy Story", human characters are not aware that the toys speak and move but the audience is.
3. What is a similie
4. Which literary device is used to create a picture in the reader's mind by evoking responses from all of the reader's senses?
5. Any element, subject, idea or concept that is constantly present through the entire body of literature.
6. Hints to readers something that is to follow or appear later in the story
7. "An oxymoron is the same thing as a paradox."
8. Considered the main character of a story
9. Important hints or clues that an author drops to prepare the reader for what is to come.
10. "The road was a ribbon of moonlight, "
11. A contrast between what is expected and what actually exist
12. "Oh! What fine luck I have!"
13. "Bob is as brave as a lion" is an example of what literary device?
14. The author's attitude that is expressed by their WORD CHOICE.
15. "The knock on the door was an alien sound."
16. The way the reader feels when reading a story is called .....
17. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of two or more nearby words.
18. When two or more words in a sentence share the same beginning consonant sound
19. " ..... but a singular sense of impending calamity, that should indeed have served me as a warning, drove me onward." This quote from H.G. Wells' The Time Machine is an example of what literary device?
20. ANIMAL FARM explore's the use of ..... to persuade and/or brainwash others.