Literary Devices Quiz 357 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which literary device is used to give human qualities to non-human objects or ideas?
2. How can you know that something is written in first person point of view?
3. "Don't worry, " the captain told the crew. "This ship is unsinkable."
4. A hint of something happening later on .....
5. A hint at something to come later in a piece of literature (present, future, present)
6. The character opposing the protagonist
7. Which is NOT one of the three kinds of irony?
8. How does internal conflict contribute to the development of a character in a story?
9. The perspective in which a story is told:
10. The time, place, or physical place in which a story takes place.
11. What is a comparison of two things that are basically unlike but have some qualities in common?
12. When the woman kept changing the subject I knew she had something to hide. I wasn't surprised then .....
13. Which of the following terms means "repetition of consonant sounds" ?
14. A statement that seems contradictory or absurd, but is actually valid or true
15. "What incredible power of identification the girl had; she was like the eager watcher of a marionette show, anticipating with each flicker of an eyelid, each gesture of his hand, each flick of a finger, the moment before it began."
16. "Standing brave in a secret cave"In this line, wee see the example of .....
17. Point of view used when a story is narrated using the pronoun "I"
18. Imagery that appeals to the reader's sense of touch.
19. I'd recently disagreed with her (Milania) over who had dibs on the gym for practice. Excuse me, but the basketball team can run laps in the hallway, whereas the wrestling squad, of which I was a member briefly until another recent misunderstanding, has to use the gym because that's where the mats are located. And no one ever died waiting twenty minutes for someone else to get done using the gym. Enough said. Except to Milania, who argued with me loudly enough for the wrestling coach to ask, in the interest of the team, for me to resign to make peace with Milania, because the girls' JV basketball team were defending state champions, upsetting their practice time would lead directly to them losing state this year, which would then cause the Earth "to slip off its axis and slide out of its rotation and crash into the sun" (28).Paulsen, Gary. Vote. New York:Wendy Lamb Books, 2013.
20. -"no. tis not so deep as a well, nor as wide as a church door"