Literary Devices Quiz 329 (20 MCQs)

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1. Do you ever wonder how you taste things? You owe your sense of taste to your taste buds. We have 9, 000 taste buds just on the tongue alone. There are also taste buds on the roof of your mouth. You even have taste buds on the back of your throat.What does the author want you to learn about the passage?
2. Which of these sentences contains a use of metaphor?
3. Which of the following is the best example for assonance?
4. Which sentence is a close example of a simile? (a)
5. When an object that stands for something greater than itself
6. "The sky was a ragged blaze of red and pink and orange, like color spilled from a paintbox."
7. During a storytelling session, Emma described a scene saying:'The wind whispered through the trees'. Which literary device is Emma using in her description?
8. The bird's chirp filled the empty night air.
9. A lawyers closing statement emphasizing his client's high morals and good doings in the community to the jury. What is the author's purpose? Pick the best choice.
10. The basic structure of a story
11. Extreme exaggeration is .....
12. A character that struggles with their mental health is an example of what type of conflict?
13. A type of figurative lanuage that compares two things (nouns) without using like or as such as "He is a wall on the football field" .
14. The wheels of justice turn slowly.
15. What story is this from? "He wanted to show that fate ruled people's lives, and that those who interfered with it did so to their sorrow" .
16. Another of Aristotle's modes of persuasion, referring to the logical appeal or reasoning used in an argument.
17. A writer presents a situation or thing as if it is less important or serious than it is in reality
18. Which of the following is used in the sentence? The child let the cat out of the bag about the surprise birthday party.
19. When a word or phrase is used multiple times in a piece of literature, song, or speech, this is called .....
20. The character that goes against the main character in a story.