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Literary Devices Quiz 360 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which of the following is NOT a form of conflict?
2. "If Mrs. Butler or Sam is talking to me, I can't hear either of them. The only thing I hear is the sound of my own pulse pounding in my ears. The way it would if I'd run all the way back. Just the boom-boom-boom of my heart and the strange swish of the sprinkler next door. A shush-shush followed by a metallic rat-a-tat-tat. Like firecrackers going off" (48). Patterson, Valerie O. Operation Oleander. Boston:Clarion Books, 2013.
3. It was an open secret.
4. A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables is called
5. O Captain! My Captain! Rise up and hear the bells;Rise up-for you the flag is flung-for you the bugle blows .....
6. The character or force that opposes the main character is called the .....
7. This can be demonstrated with descriptive details, clues in the dialogue, character/place names, etc.
8. Symbolism is when something in the text ..... something else.
9. What literary device is being used in the phrase 'The world is a stage'?
10. The comparison of two unlike things which no word of comparison (like or as) are used
11. To be in partnership with someone.
12. "The leaves danced in the wind." This sentence is an example of .....
13. "The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed:It was past eight thirty and still light."
14. A girl wakes up late for school and quickly rushes to get there. As soon as she arrives, though, she realizes that it's Saturday and there is no school.What kind of irony is this?
15. Use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities, by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal sense
16. A book written about one's own life is called
17. The person who tells the story. Could be first, second or third person.
18. Which does not belong to the group?
19. "Mr. Neck makes a note in his book. 'I knew you were trouble the first time I saw you. I've taught here for twenty-four years and I can tell what's going on in a kid's head just by looking in their eyes" ' (9)
20. The teller of the story.
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