Literary Devices Quiz 520 (20 MCQs)

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1. You are throwing money down the drain. or The apple does not fall far from the tree. These are examples of .....
2. And the goddess shed much cloud around her with her cloak
3. "I simultaneously composed and destroyed the opera while writing it" is an example of what kind of literary device?
4. The headphone explodes, || breaking the mold
5. Writer's attitude toward the subject or audience, implied or related directly
6. What is the meaning of this simile?My mom can be as fiery as a volcano when I don't do my chores on time.
7. A story or tale with two or more levels of meaning-a literal level and a symbolic level.
8. What is the term for contradictions in which something that was supposed to happen is replaced with an unpredictable occurrence?
9. Explain Metaphor.
10. Touch/feel imagery
11. Which literary device is shown here? 9 lingua sed torpet, tenuis sub artus10 flamma demanat, sonitu suopte11 tintinant aures, gemina teguntur12 lumina nocte,
12. Movies bore Darry to death.
13. " ..... they liked storms; storms meant shipwrecks. Shipwrecks meant sailors struggling in the sea ..... (3)
14. What literary device is illustrated in the sentence below:The president is injured when a Secret Service agent knocks him down while protecting him.
15. Which IS an example of APPROXIMATE or SLANT Rhyme
16. "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness." In Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl, " this line is an example of:
17. What literary device is used here:The sycamore leaves whispered in a little night breeze.
18. " ..... right now District 12 is the laughingstock of Panem, and he knows it."
19. This is anything that stands for or represents something else.
20. A sudden revelation, realization or flash of insight a character makes or experiences