Literary Devices Quiz 437 (20 MCQs)

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1. To awaken someone.
2. "A horse is a very stable animal"
3. Susan sat alone and sang sad songs.
4. Covered
5. Which word means a recurring subject, theme, or idea in a literary work?
6. The way a writer develops characters' personalities ..... what characters say and do, how they dress, how other characters speak about them.
7. The event that sets the central conflict in motion
8. Example:He was barking up the wrong tree.
9. Giving human qualities or characteristics to animals or inanimate objects
10. "When he saw dark figures in front of him on the path, he knew trouble might be just ahead!"
11. "The dark sky, filled with angry, swirling clouds, reflected Greg Ridley's mood, " is an example of which literary device?
12. Mankind, man
13. Life is box of hot chilli peppers.
14. A word that looks and is spelled like the sound it makes.
15. When a writer compares two things without mentioning one of them, we call it a(n) .....
16. Pronouns used in first person point of view:
17. Saturday Night Live is mostly satire
18. Imagine you are reading a book where the author describes the sun as a 'blazing furnace'. This comparison is made without using the words 'like' or 'as'. What literary device is being used here?
19. He took a tissue from the box on the coffee table. His nose ran most of the time, so there were boxes of tissue all over the house. But when something happened to make him emotional ..... like this letter ..... his nose poured. By describing how much the his nose runs, the author is telling the reader:
20. He was sweating LIKE a pig is an example of