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Literary Devices Quiz 531 (20 MCQs)

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1. Identify the literary device in the following passage: "Only last week did we develop penicillin and television and nuclear power, and now if America's new spacecraft succeeds in reaching Venus, we will have literally reached the stars before midnight tonight" (Kennedy 2). HINT:Penicillin and television were discovered in the late 1920s and nuclear power was discovered in the 1930s. This speech was written in 1962.
2. "But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!" (Shakespeare). What type of figurative language is this?
3. This is the name of the events leading up to the climax of a story.
4. Go slow over the road.
5. What is the correct example of onomatopoeia
6. My paper stared back at me while I was trying to study, is an example of what?
7. The example highlighted below is an example of? The black birddog boldly began to bark.
8. A word choice to create a specific effect.
9. The relationship between the narrator and the story is called
10. What narration is used in this passage? Nelson was wondering if his friend, Jordan, had the new Space Alien Invasion video game. And Nelson couldn't wait to play the game with him.
11. Identify a more vivid way to write the verb in the following sentence:The boy found a sick cat in the woods and touched its fur to comfort it.
12. The righteous shall flourish as the palm tree.
13. Which subject contains the most syllables?
14. A huge city standing alone at the top of the world
15. There are a zillion stars in the sky tonight.
16. What is are the literary elements?
17. A warning or indication of a future event is .....
18. Read the following passage and identify the main idea:One night, as I watched my newborn son sleep, studying his beautiful face, I suddenly became filled with fear. I was convinced I would screw him up-that all my problems would wash over him, tarnishing his perfect soul. Strangely, while panicking about my son's impending doom, Dad popped to mind. I sat there in the dark, surrounded by the soothing sounds and smells of my baby's room, and I thought of how Dad must have felt when I was born. I knew at that moment that he never intended to hurt me. I realized that he loved me just as I loved my son. I knew that he had done the best he could, even if it wasn't always very good.
19. Define Tone in the context of an author's writing.
20. Identify the literary device:"Murmur of fresh jungle rain"
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