Literary Devices Quiz 446 (20 MCQs)

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1. Figure of speech that directly compares two things using 'like' or 'as'
2. Deafening silence, organized chaos, cruelly kind, insanely logical, etc.
3. A comparison using "like, " "as, " "so, " "than, " or words such as "resemble" or "compare"
4. What literary device is displayed below:"His heart was truly broken."
5. Anything (object, animal, event, person or place) that represents itself but also stands for something else on a figurative level.
6. In the poem, "eve and the snake" Jackie wishes God would give them another chance to do what?
7. Time and place of a story's action
8. True or FalseA literary device is any specific aspect of literature, or a particular work, which we can recognize, identify, interpret and/or analyze.
9. Tate stamps his feet and crosses his arms. How do you think he feels?
10. I was so angry that I kicked an elephant all the way to Mars!
11. Has gods or godesses and often accounts for how something came to be
12. There go the loves that wither [dry up], The old loves with wearier wings; And all dead years draw thither [there] And disastrous things; Dead dreams of days forsaken, Blind buds that snows have shaken, Wild leaves that winds have taken, Red strays of ruined springs ..... And love, grown faint and fretful With lips but half regretful Sighs, and with eyes forgetful Weeps that no loves endure [last]. QUESTION:What mood do the details in the poem convey?
13. He's as flaky as a snowstorm.
14. Language intended to create an emotional response.
15. What is the same or similar vowel sound repeated in the stressed syllable of a word, followed by uncommon consonant sounds.
16. Which choice is a figure of speech in which the absent or dead are spoken to as if present and inanimate objects as if they were living?
17. Which literary term is showcased in the following quote:Then I glanced up and saw a pair of kites, red with long blue tails, soaring in the sky.
18. What is the best definition of metaphor?
19. The example highlighted below is an example of? Her hair is a shimmering waterfall.
20. What is the purpose of foreshadowing in a story?