Literary Devices Quiz 364 (20 MCQs)

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1. An interruption in a narrative to show an event that happened earlier (present, past, present)
2. This literary device uses repeated vowel sounds
3. Which of the following is an example of a simile? a) The sun is a yellow ball in the sky. b) The sun is a yellow ball. c) The sun is shining brightly.
4. Which pronouns are generally used by the narrator in First Person Point of View passages?
5. An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected; the difference between what is expected to happen and what actually does
6. The baby slept through the night once in a blue moon.
7. A character has a realization is what?
8. Her toes were as cold as ice.
9. She ran like the wind. What is this?
10. The turning point in the story. The tension isat its highest point in the story.
11. Lee Anne laughs loudly and lovingly.
12. Ponyboy Curtiss is slapped in the face by Darry Curtiss because he stayed out too late with Johnny.
13. Figure of speech that combines two apparently contradictory ideas.
14. The repetition of the same sound within nearby words. Usually the repetition of consonants at the beginning of a word. Ex:Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
15. Find the simple predicate in the following sentence:The lonely sheep went bowling on Tuesday.
16. In Greek mythology, a mythical bird called the phoenix lives for hundreds of years before bursting into flames at its death. However, it soon rises from its own ashes and is reborn. What is the meaning of the allusion in the sentence below? Fans debated whether their team would rise from the ashes.
17. Alice's adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do:once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book, " thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?" So she was considering, in her own mind whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.
18. Which is a form of Personification?
19. A warning or indication of a future event in a narrative
20. The turning point or most exciting part of the story is called .....