Literary Devices Quiz 491 (20 MCQs)

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1. "As straight as an arrow" is an example of a .....
2. Which of the following is a run on sentence?
3. A direct comparison between two, unlike things. Usually uses the words like or as.
4. A character that undergoes an internal change between the beginning and end of the story. The character changes in some way-personality, outlook on life, values, etc
5. Students are sponges in the classroom.
6. Basketball is the only thing that ever mattered to him.
7. The idea or observation about people or human nature revealed through a story.
8. What is the conflict in a story?
9. Some students sing silly songs on Saturday is an example of .....
10. During lunchtime at school, Arjun noticed that Nora was eating her food quickly. He commented, 'Nora is as hungry as a bear.' Identify the literary device used in Arjun's comment.
11. Explain Chronological Order in the structure of text.
12. On their wedding day, the groom gave his bride a bouquet of red roses. What do the red roses symbolize?
13. "Loud silence" and "small giant" are examples of
14. "Drip-hiss-drip-hiss fall the raindrops / on the oaken log which burns, and steams, and smokes the ceiling beams. / Drip-hiss-the rain never stops." This is an example of
15. The poem "There was a child went forth" by Walt Whitman is about how everything we experience in life changes or shapes us. This idea is the poem's .....
16. What type of irony happens when an expected outcome is reversed?
17. It rained on a couple's wedding day.
18. What is being used here?:I turned into the living room and heard the click-clack of her knitting needles.
19. What literary device is illustrated in this statement?"I feel so sleepy, I can sleep for a thousand years"
20. The popcorn popped in the microwave is an example of .....