Literary Devices Quiz 344 (20 MCQs)

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1. "He saw nothing and heard nothing but he could feel his heart pounding and then he heard the clack on stone and the leaping, dropping clicks of a small rock falling."
2. The repetition of the sound at the beginning of a word (ex. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.)
3. An unexpected turn in the story that provides a new view or a new conflict is called a .....
4. What do we call the when an author makes an indirect reference to a figure, place, event, or idea originating from outside the text?
5. A character that experiences a change throughout a text.
6. I know one thing, that I know nothing is an example of
7. An example of dramatic irony is
8. When the character is speaking to you in the piece of literature
9. Seeing slithering snakes makes my spine shiver.Select the correct answer.
10. In the meantime the sky begins with a great murmur of confusion, followed by a cloud mixed with hail, and the Counts of Tyria here and there, and the Trojan youth, and the grandson of Venus, fleeing in fear through the various fields; rivers rush down from the mountains. What literary device is found in lines 162-163?
11. He drew a line as straight as an arrow.-He drew a line as straight as an arrow.
12. When the author tells the reader the character's personality ("he was so angry")
13. The author's main idea or message of the story. It is a universal, opinionated statement about humanity-not a single word.
14. This essay uses evidence and facts to prove whether or not a thesis is true. The essay presents two sides of a single issue.
15. Definition-a word' or thing's literal or main definition Example- "The blueberry is very blue."
16. What is the literary device that refers to the message an author wants to communicate through the piece?
17. Which of the following is an example of a primary source about World War 2
18. What does Santa Claus symbolize in the story we just read?
19. "You've married an Icarus; he has flown too close to the sun." This is an example of .....
20. The following is an example of what?In 1895, in a small town in Kentucky, there was a schoolhouse.