Literary Devices Quiz 522 (20 MCQs)

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1. Looking at her child's messy room, Mom says, "Wow, you could win an award for cleanliness!"
2. ".....and the falling starry sleeps." This is an example of:
3. An underlying message about life or human nature-that an author wants readers to take away from a text.
4. What character trait is revealed in this passage? Jonathan looked at the homeless dog walking down the street of his neighborhood. He approached the dog, slowly cautiously, with his hands stretched outward. After gaining his trust, Jonathan took the dog home, gave him a warm bath, and big bowl of food.
5. What literary device is present in the following quote? "[the wind] ..... blew the fallen oaks around, snapping their roots and tearing them out of the earth like a hawk at the entrails of a chicken."
6. LAST CHANCE:how many tests must you pass to receive your high school diploma?
7. When the audience knew Juliet was not dead, but Romeo did not know, it is an example of ..... irony.
8. "She sang of his love forever" is an example of:
9. The narrator tells what only one character thinks, feels, and observes
10. A use of an incorrect word in place of a similar sounding word that results in a nonsensical and humorous expression
11. A figure of speech in which abstract ideas and principles are described in terms of characters, figures, and events. It can be employed in prose and poetry to tell a story, with a purpose of teaching or explaining an idea or a principle is known as
12. A vowel followed by 2 consonants is .....
13. Which literary device is shown here?29 per ego haec loca plena timoris, 30 per Chaos hoc ingens vastique silentia regni,
14. ..... is the moral or lesson the author is trying to impart or teach.
15. What is a deliberate repetition of a part of the sentence?
16. What is invective?
17. A man faces discrimination.
18. Which literary device is most clearly used in this line from "The Golden Plate? "The woman saw that this was a nice tender looking merchant and thought, 'He's a good man, not like the rough-talking first salesman." '
19. A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning
20. Perhaps the flight contained a whole boardroom of Texas businessmen flying to China. Was she surrounded by a host of men in bolo ties? Was she the only Chinese person on this flight to China? Louise decided to scan the rest of the plane. She leaned as far as she could to the right. She leaned so far that her head knocked into the passenger beside her.