Literary Devices Quiz 412 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which literary device is used in the sentence "'Object there was none. Passion there was none'?
2. What type of irony is it when words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning?
3. The character in opposition to the main character. Against the hero
4. A character (or thing) that is the source of conflict in aliterary work
5. The time and place of the action is called .....
6. I'm sure I've asked you a thousand times to clean your room.
7. He has no enemies but is bitterly disliked by his friends.
8. Her boss have to let her go because of her incompetence in the company.
9. Motto or quotation that appears at the beginning of a work that generally relates to the theme of a work, for example, "What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up / Like a raisin in the sun?"
10. A loud blast from its whistle
11. A tragic flaw, especially a misconception, a lack of some important insight, or some blindness that ironically results from one's own strengths and abilities.
12. Which is the definition of "alliteration" ?
13. Using something to represent an idea larger than itself
14. "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.Tis some visitor, " I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door .....
15. Which of these sentences contains an example of hyperbole?
16. These are comparison devices
17. What is a unit of a pronounced word or part of a word that has one vowel sound with or without surrounding consonants?
18. He hit me like a wrecking ball .....
19. The moment of great emotional intensity or suspense in a plot (marks the moment when the conflict is decided one way or another).
20. A type of figurative language that compares two unlike things by saying something is something else. It does not use like or as.