Literary Devices Quiz 41 (20 MCQs)

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1. A main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work.
2. A timeline showing important events from the American Civil War. What would be the author's purpose in the above statement?
3. Identify the literary device in the phrase:'Time flies.'
4. Usually the shortest part of the story; follows the climax in which the pieces of the story begin to settle
5. Kathy loves to capture bugs when she is outside. What word could you change bug to, and make more alliteration in the sentence?
6. Words and phrases used by the author to create "mental images" for the reader.
7. What does STEAL stand for?
8. Metaphors and similes compare two things, but a simile uses .....
9. Jason is a walking dictionary.
10. What is this an example of? "There's too many kids in the tub. There's too many elbows to scrub."
11. Giving a nonhuman human qualities is called .....
12. You break a date with your girlfriend so you can go to the ball game with the guys. When you go to the concession stand, you run into your girl, who is with another guy.
13. "Love is a battlefield" is an example of
14. I am dying of shame.
15. One who tells lies, conceals information, misjudges with respect to the narrative
16. "Your teeth are like stars; they come out at night."What poetic device is this an example of?
17. "The clock was glaring at me" is an example of .....
18. "The sibilant snake slithered silently through the grass." This line from a poem is an example of:
19. A metrical foot made up of 2 long syllables ( ..... )
20. "Chocolate cake is my Achilles heel."