Literary Devices Quiz 439 (20 MCQs)

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1. "The word girl had formerly seemed to me innocent and unburdened, like the word child; now it appeared that it was no such thing. A girl was not, as I had supposed, simply what I was; it was what I had to become. It was a definition, always touched with reproach and disappointment."
2. "Fair is foul, and foul is fair." Who is speaking in this line? What is the context?
3. When the current setting is interupted to go back in time to learn more about a character or a situation, it is called .....
4. An object that stands for something beyond itself.
5. Which Literary Device is in the following sentence:Your smile is like the sun rising on a clear summer day.
6. What is author's attitude?
7. A work with two levels of meaning, a literal one and a symbolic one defines the following term
8. Which idiom goes the best with this sentence? I have a problem.
9. All are advantages of 1st person Point-of-View EXCEPT .....
10. What is a story with a fully developed theme but is significantly shorter and less elaborate than a novel?
11. If the story goes back in time to show you something, the author is using:
12. Which word gives the best overall description of Fezziwig?
13. An indirect reference.
14. Puritan writing, like Of Plymouth Plantation, can be classified as
15. "With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the genuine discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, pray together; to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom forever, knowing that we will be free one day." This section of "I Have a Dream" demonstrates an example of:
16. It is a literary device where words are used in quick succession and begin with letters belonging to the same sound group.
17. In literature, the element that makes readers feel certain feelings or emotions because of the author's word choice
18. Author's/narrator's emotional attitude toward the subject in the story
19. While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping
20. A forest in the middle of the night is the ..... of "The Interlopers."