Literary Devices Quiz 377 (20 MCQs)

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1. When the author goes back in time and describes an earlier event or scene is called .....
2. Descriptive language that evokes sensory experience.
3. Which explanations best describes why this text evidence supports the development of the theme? Take one's adversity Turn adversity into ambition
4. "You must close your eyes to open your mind" is an example of
5. What is the literary device used to create a contrast between what is expected and what actually happens in The Alchemist?
6. "Allusion" is a .....
7. "Is there an Einstein in your physics class?" What literary device is used?
8. Introduces the character, describes the setting, and establishes the conflict
9. The point in a narrative story which the conflict or tension hits the highest point
10. Language that communicates ideas beyond the ordinary, literal meanings of words.
11. Which of the following is "The perspective from which the narrator, speaker, or author recounts a narrative or presents information?"
12. The following is an example of which literary device?The wind was blowing furiously as rain poured down. Suzie then says, "What lovely weather we are having!"
13. The irony of something happening that is very different to what is expected because of the situations or circumstances
14. This figure of speech compares two things, using the words as/like.
15. Words spoken by a character in a play, usually in an undertone and not intended
16. The act of creating, developing, and describing characters. Can be both direct or indirect.
17. When an audience knows something a character does not
18. Theme is the overall message or (a) an author is trying to teach the reader.
19. "I can hear the popping and crackling as mom dropped the bacon into the frying pan" is an example of what?
20. A cliffhanger example is when a episode of a tv program ends with the villain and hero face to face?