Literary Devices Quiz 373 (20 MCQs)

Quiz Instructions

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1. Choose the correct option."I walked a million miles to get here."
2. "Military intelligence" and "jumbo shrimp" are examples of:
3. This device is a figure of speech that compares two things using "like" or "as":
4. "I might just fade into Bolivian." -Mike Tyson
5. When something unexpected happens in a story or other literary writing, this is known as
6. "Love is an endless river." In this line, love is being compared to a river, using:
7. "Peter pranced playfully around the playground" is an example of .....
8. Repetition of vowel sounds across a line of text or poetry.
9. A struggle between two opposing forces, usually a protagonist and an antagonist. / A fight between two opposing forces, usually a protagonist and an antagonist.
10. When one syllable at the end of a word isn't pronounced, but is joined to the next syllable
11. The reference to a subject matter like a person, place, event or literary work in a literary piece is a(n)
12. The shelter was a circus of sights and sounds. What is the phrase in blue?
13. Irony in which a person says or writes one thing and means another, or uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning
14. She sells sea shells by the sea shore is an example of:
15. Which word is determined by the same letter assigned to the rhyming words at the end of each line?
16. "The cookie quickly looked brick-like in the oven, " is an example of
17. Extreme use of exaggeration to create emphasis
18. "The world is a stage, and we are all actors."
19. A long speech spoken by one character alone on stage in which the character's internal thoughts are shared.
20. What should we change?( today, we had a lot of fun. )