Literary Devices Quiz 320 (20 MCQs)

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1. Sorry, I thought you knew that John kicked the bucket. I figured somebody told you knew he bit thhe dust.
2. Your teeth are like stars, They shine at night.Choose the simile from these lines.
3. In the Harry Potter series, the Death Eaters rebelled against the social ideas of the normal wizarding world. Of what type of conflict is this an example?
4. My backpack weighed a ton with all of my books in it.
5. A play on words; Ex:I really wanted a camo shirt, but I couldn't find one.
6. Indirect comparison of two unlike things using like, as, seems, or than.
7. The flowers are dancing beside the lake.
8. What is the tone of a literary work?
9. An exaggeration used to make or prove a point
10. Words that are similar but do not have same number of syllables
11. The beginning of the story that has the setting, background, character introduction and initial conflict is called the:
12. After giving evidence to support your ideas, you should .....
13. When something is used to represent something else
14. What is the literary device that repeats the same phrase at the beginning of each line?
15. The moon smiled at me. What kind of figures of speech is being used?
16. The aural image appeals to the sense of?
17. I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
18. The emotional bonding of the character(s) and the reader is .....
19. When a word is formed from a sound.
20. A combination of two words that contradict each other. For example:deafening silence