Literary Devices Quiz 425 (20 MCQs)

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1. When the alarm clock sounded, Amy leaned over to turn it off and got up to start her day. She had no idea it would be one of the most memorable days of her life.
2. Cindy works at the local diner. She takes peoples' orders. She is friendly to everyone who enters the restaurant. She cleans up the dirty tables.
3. The study of the effect of the language, especially in persuasion and the way writers use language and its effect on readers/audience.
4. When a character is set against someone or something beyond their control
5. What is it when a more mild or indirect word or expression is used in place of another word or phrase that is considered harsh, blunt, vulgar, or unpleasant?
6. The sequence of events in a short story, usually divided into five parts.
7. Which of the following is an example of a literary analysis claim?
8. Audience knows more about a situation or event than the characters do
9. Technique in which writers employ two or more characters to be engaged in conversation with one another
10. Study of mankind
11. A subdivision of an act in a dramatic presentation in which the setting is fixed and the time continuous
12. Definition:the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of nearby words
13. Is the use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in the plot.
14. When the audience knows something that the characters don't is called .....
15. "Sarah saw six seahorses while swimming" is an example of .....
16. Billy feels strangely drawn to the Bell and Dragon and was compelled to enter.
17. Your explanation is as clear as mud.
18. Godfather Death is a folktale/fable from which country?
19. An inoffensive expression substituted for an offensive one is the definition of what term?
20. This sentence contains an example of:He ran around an heap of metal being swallowed by a greedy bramble of blackberry bushes.