Literary Devices Quiz 521 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which of the following is a euphemism?
2. Joe the baby grabber is an example of .....
3. A struggle between a character and an outside force (another character or nature)
4. Which of the following means "making fun of something by using the multiple meanings of a word" ?
5. An adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned
6. A play on words that are identical or similar in sound but have very different meanings.
7. "His father ..... lecturing endlessly about his poor efforts in math, " is an example of which literary device?
8. Assuming the outcome of an event based on previous events is what kind of rhetoric?
9. Which word means a conversation between characters or speakers in a literary work or the speech of characters in a drama?
10. A type of figurative language that gives human qualites (actions) to nonhuman things like "The wind sang a song."
11. An idea or feeling that a word invokes for a person in addition to its literal or primary meaning
12. When ideas, actions, or objects are described in non-literal terms; when an author compares one thing to another.
13. Elyan and Adrian were discussing about their English homework. Elyan asked Adrian, 'What is the literary definition of a imagery?'
14. The following is an example of what type of literary device:Heather is a beautiful snowflake.
15. Which is the significant literary device in the following quote: " ..... but it would explain a lot. Why Dad left home as soon as he could. Why he drank so much and why he got so angry. Why he never wanted to visit Welch when we were younger. Why he at first refused to come to West Virginia with us and only at the last possible moment overcame his reluctance and jumped into the car. Why he was shaking his head so hard, almost like he wanted to put his hands over his ears, when I tried to explain what Erma had been doing to Brian."
16. We can learn a lot about a character if we pay attention to what the character says and how the character says it. This type of characterization is under which category?
17. What does it mean when you tell someone to break a leg?
18. Tall, dark and handsome is an example of .....
19. Which literary device is shown here? 2 nec bello pede ..... 6 ten provincia narrat esse bellam?
20. When an object represents a bigger concept or idea