Literary Devices Quiz 359 (20 MCQs)

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1. Descriptive and figurative language to create a picture in the reader's mind, especially referring to the senses.
2. The repetition of words that begin with the same sound
3. A situation in which a character must choose between two course of action, both undesirable
4. A figure of speech which contains word that contradicts with each other is called .....
5. Identify the type of irony:In Toy Story, human characters are not aware that the toys speak and move, but the audience is.
6. A story or tale with two or more levels of meaning:a literal and one or more symbolic levels
7. Which literary device is used in the sentence:'The moonlight danced on the water'?
8. Identify the following literary device in the passage: "What is indifference? Etymologically, the word means "no difference." A strange and unnatural state in which the lines blur between light and darkness, dusk and dawn, crime and punishment, cruelty and compassion, good and evil" (Weisel 2).
9. Literary devices apply to .....
10. "She did not realize that opportunity was knocking at her door" is .....
11. Who killed Macbeth?
12. The fable "The Tortoise and the Hare" is an example of this.
13. When and where a story (or scene of a story) takes place is the
14. What is a character's attributes?
15. A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind. Usually uses like or as.Eg His room was like a pig sty.
16. Events after the turning point that begin to resolve the story
17. Words and phrases that paint a pictureand appeal to the readers 5 senses (sight, hearing, touch, smell or taste)
18. It rains on Mary's wedding day.
19. Literary conflict (man vs. man, self, nature, etc.) is a .....
20. It is also known as a rhetorical device.