Literary Devices Quiz 534 (20 MCQs)

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1. Tragic or depressing subject matter is dealt with in a humorous way
2. When a writer invokes the five senses
3. Which of the following is NOT a 3rd person point of view.
4. A character who acts as contrast to another character. Often a funny side kick to the dashing hero, or a villain contrasting the hero
5. Conversation between two or more characters in a story.
6. "Johnny jumped joyfully" is an example of .....
7. Extreme exaggeration (Ex. My backpack weighs a ton.)
8. When the struggle in the story is happening between the protagonist and him or herself, it is called .....
9. ..... is a literary device that allows writers to show their audience specific events that happened before the current action of the story.
10. "A run-on sentence, its phrases piling up without division, is as unsightly as a sink piled high with dirty dishes." (from "In Praise of the Humble Comma" by Pico Iyer)
11. What theme is it when Scrooge realizes he should have been nicer more during his life?
12. Balancing two or more ideas or arguments that are equally important.
13. It is a literary device where two or more words in a phrase or line of poetry share the same beginning consonant sound.
14. In Wonder, Space is a:
15. Unrhymed iambic pentameter, meaning there are 5 alternating unstressed and stressed beats.
16. "Imagery" is a .....
17. What literary device is present below? Asher was lightning on the field.
18. The character who opposes the main character is called the .....
19. "It is raining cats and dogs!" is an example of what? (Is it literally raining animals?)
20. The car honked, then beeped, and then suddenly stop with a loud, "Bang." This is an example of