Literary Devices Quiz 333 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which elements are described in the exposition?
2. Repetition in literature is used for:
3. A statement that refers to something without mentioning it directly.
4. I love the fact that my neighbor's dog barks at me whenever I go outside. It makes me feel noticed.
5. "Her head was so full of ideas that it was ready to burst wide open" is what type of figurative language?
6. A figure of speech involving great exaggeration
7. A literary work in which all or most of the characters, settings, and events stand for ideas, qualities, or figures above themselves. The overall purpose of an allegory is to teach a moral lesson.
8. What does the word "Manipulation" mean?
9. Atmosphere or feeling we get from the story
10. The use of an object or action that has a deeper meaning than its literal meaning.
11. The leading character struggles against ideas, practices, or customs of other people.
12. An unusual set of circumstances for which the reader craves an explanation; used to create suspense
13. The outside narrator only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character.
14. I slept like the dead.
15. What type of irony occurs when an audience or reader knows something before characters in a literary work or show know?
16. "He was hopping about among the saucepans and the machines like a child among his Christmas presents, not knowing which thing to look at first."
17. An expression that should not be interpreted literally; its meaning is figurative and means something quite different from the literal meaning of the phrase
18. How the author reveals a character's personality traits and/or physical appearance ..... there are two types direct and indirect
19. Hints, clues or a warning that something will happen later in the story
20. Which literary device is shown here? 13 otium, Catulle, tibi molestum est:14 otio exsultas nimiumque gestis:15 otium et reges prius et beatas .....