Literary Devices Quiz 494 (20 MCQs)

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1. Represents safety, openness, community
2. He has been in so many accidents, he must have nine lives.
3. What literary device is being used in the sentence 'The black cat crossing your path signifies bad luck'?
4. "I saw through her meanness which was a cloud that hung over her and chased her." (this is an example of ..... )
5. The author's attitude towards the topic
6. "With the injuries the Cowboys have endured, this season had become a sinking ship." This is an example of .....
7. Giving human traits and qualities to non-human things is what?
8. True or false? An element of Gothic literature could involve the supernatural or the implication of the supernatural.
9. Which of these tones best describes Tupac's poem? Ambition Over Adversity by Tupac Shakur Take one's adversity Learn from their misfortune Learn from their pain Believe in something Believe in yourself Turn adversity into ambition Now blossom into wealth
10. A comparison using "like" or "as" and which is often considered weaker than a more direct comparison is called .....
11. Comedy
12. A reference to someone or something commonly known from literature, history, religion, or other areas of popular culture.
13. A Greek term meaning 'side by side' that is a rhetorical term in which phrases and clauses are placed one after another independently, without coordinating or subordinating them through the use of conjunctions.
14. The feeling the reader gets from a piece of literature
15. Persuasive writing is meant to convince the readers of a particular opinion. To make it convincing, support opinions with facts.
16. When something bad happens to a friend and you feel bad about it. It hasn't really happened to you, but you feel bad for them .....
17. "In every cry of every Man, / In every infants cry, of fear, / In every voice:in every ban"
18. Long hair is the Greaser's pride.
19. Support in an argument that both sides would agree with ..... defines the following term
20. What literary device is used in the phrase 'the wind howled'?