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Literary Devices Quiz 368 (20 MCQs)

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1. The central, main character of a story is called the .....
2. "Her head is in the clouds."What does it mean?
3. A story within a story. It has a "surface story" and another story hidden underneath. For example, the surface story might be about two neighbors throwing rocks at each other's homes, but the hidden story would be about war between countries.
4. Many meanings of a word.
5. Definition:A common expression special to a language that doesn't make sense if you take it literally.
6. The fog comeson little cat feet.It sits lookingover harbor and cityon silent haunchesand then moves on.
7. Frolicking freely in the streets of France
8. Writing that is concerned with the beauty of language
9. An attitude of the author conveyed through the word choice and sentence structure a writer utilizes
10. Which type of imagery is associated with the sense of taste?
11. In the phrase 'The sun's rays kissed the earth', which literary device is being used?
12. Which device is "the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words" ?
13. I smelled the warm, sweet, all-pervasive smell, as well as the sour dirty laundry spilling over the basket in the hall. I could pick out the acrid smell of Claire's drenched diaper, her sweaty feet, and her hair crusted with sand.
14. We are in the cockpit of an airplane. The plane hits turbulence and the captain struggles to regain control. It doesn't last long, and everything is soon seemingly fine again. What could this be foreshadowing?
15. Language that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation
16. What mood is created by a setting in which all domestic functions are performed by machines and none by humans?
17. "The silence was as deep as the ocean." This line from a poem is an example of:
18. During a literature class, Anthony said, 'Time is a thief'. Which literary device is Anthony using in his statement?
19. What is "a figure of speech in which a thing, idea, or animal is given human traits" ?
20. What is resolution?
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