Literary Devices Quiz 335 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which word means "an exaggerated statement, not meant to be taken literally" ?
2. Identify the figure of speech in the following sentence:I am so hungry I can eat a mountain.
3. A character, or a group of characters, which stands in opposition to the Protagonist, which is the main character. / Un personaje, o un grupo de personajes, que se opone al Protagonista, que es el personaje principal.
4. Identify the literary device:"The fire crackled up the stairs"
5. The literary device, Conflict, means .....
6. The time and place in which the main story events occur.
7. "Mary is as light as a feather" is a
8. Moana ate like a bear just out of hibernation. Metaphor?
9. A ..... is a figure of speech that compares two unlike things using the words "like" or "as."
10. This device is the central idea of a work of literature:
11. A figure of speech in which an animal, object or idea is given a personality and described as a human.
12. Figure of thought:One of the two major divisions of figures of speech (the other being rhetorical figures).
13. Which example below is an oxymoron?
14. The specific choice of words used to help determine the style in which the person is speaking or writing
15. '"But there's a catch ..... by the end of the year you must figure out how to make your object say something, express an emotion, speak to everyone who looks at it" ' (12)
16. Clues that hint at what's to come
17. Macbeth kills Duncan and then almost immediately decides that someone else must die because of the witches predictions. Who?
18. The recording or re-creation of a character's flow of thought
19. When you say one thing, but mean the opposite
20. Author gives a hint as to what is to come later on in the story