Literary Devices Quiz 397 (20 MCQs)

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1. A pretty parrot perched on Patrick's shoulder.
2. It was very late and everyone had left the cafe except an old man who sat in the shadow the leaves of the tree made against the electric light. In the day time the street was dusty, but at night the dew settled the dust and the old man liked to sit late because he was deaf and now at night it was quiet and he felt the difference. What is the tone of the passage?
3. To talk with you and to be together.
4. Example:I felt the gritty sand while swallowing a mouthful of salty ocean water on a stinky, garbage-filled beach.
5. A line of poetry and prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter
6. Which sentence is NOT an example of imagery?
7. Which literary device is the struggle between two opposing forces (usually the protagonist and an antagonist)and is the main problem in the story
8. Life is a roller coaster. What does this metaphor mean?
9. A reference to another historical event, literary work, or something that the author refers to within a text.
10. "I want to grab her by the neck and shake her and scream at her to stop treating me like dirt" (21)
11. My spoon was an icicle in my hand.
12. What type of literary device is found in the following quite: "My great-grandmother. I would've liked to have known her, a wild horse of a woman, so wild she wouldn't marry" (11).
13. McLeod treating Chuck more like a student and less like someone who is annoying him.
14. A series of events that build from the conflict
15. Comparison between two things BUT DOESN'T use "like" or "as"
16. Which is an example of MAN VS. SELF?
17. Writing techniques used by authors to engage readers beyond the literal meaning of words.
18. The uncertainty or anxiety the reader feels about what is going to happen next in a story
19. This is comparing two things using "like" or "as" .
20. What were the consequences of pressing the button in "Button, Button" ? (think of the warning Mr Stewart gave vs what actually happened at the very end of the story)