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Literary Devices Quiz 392 (20 MCQs)

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1. A writer in a ..... uses fictional characters, which stand for real people, to expose and condemn their their corruption.
2. When you have to make inferences about a character based on their actions and/or words.
3. The character flaw or error of a tragic hero that leads to his downfall
4. Which literary device is defined as visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work?
5. Snow is like the sun, blindly enveloping my body.
6. Complete the sentence using authorial intrusion:After school, we went to get ice cream
7. Attributing human qualities to non-human entities or abstract concepts.
8. "But instead he stood there, very cold, his face a mask of ice, listening to a man's voice moving along at an easy pace."
9. The test was a piece of cake. What is this?
10. The substitution of a mild, indirect, or vagueexpression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt. For example-we say someone passed away.
11. In a story, when it talks about something that has happened in the past, what is this called?
12. Identify the preposition(s): ..... After lunch we will go outside.
13. "I'm sure one of my socks was hiding from me" is an example of:
14. Which literary device is used in the sentence "'Hearken! ..... how healthily-how calmly'?
15. Life is a broken-winged bird
16. Which literary device is most clearly used in the opening line from "The Golden Plate" ? "Once upon a time in a place called Seri, there were two salesmen of pots and pans and hand-made trinkets."
17. Which literary term is showcased in the following quote:I wished I too had some kind of scar that would beget Baba's sympathy.
18. What is the purpose of characterization?
19. You're being let go because your department's being downsized.
20. Hints that the author gives of things that are to come in the story.
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