Literary Devices Quiz 382 (20 MCQs)

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1. What two literary devices are present below? His smile was like the Chesire Cat.
2. "Rip Van Winkle" may be an ..... for the value of hard work.
3. Two contradictory words combined in a phrase, as in "Civil War"
4. What is the literary device that uses contradictory terms in conjunction?
5. The use of a word that imitates the sound of the object which it refers to
6. Words or phrases that appeal to the reader's senses
7. Person Against Person:
8. The meaning associated with a word
9. The following lines of poetry best demonstrate an example of which literary device?"Heart-we will forget him!You and I tonight."
10. Disappeared in the cold, dark polar sky
11. In A Rose for Emily, Emily holds on to her father's dead body for several days before burying it. Later we learn that she has been keeping Homer's body for years. This is an example of what?
12. What is a cluster of words relating to the same topic?
13. Definition-A character that does not noticeably change over the course of a story. These characters often play tertiary roles in a narrative (think of various parental figures in Roald Dahl's children's books). Many villains are ..... characters:They were evil yesterday, they'll be evil today, and they'll be evil tomorrow.
14. Is a writer's vivid description that help readers visualize.
15. A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.
16. The central or main idea
17. This is a good example of Alliteration: "Eric the egg salesman had excellent, everyday customers"
18. Repeating a word, phrase, full sentence, or poetical line to emphasize significance.
19. What element is using an object or a word that represents an abstract idea?
20. A) Simple parallel sentence b) Complex parallel sentence = repetition of the same pattern of words or phrases within a sentence or passage to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance.