Literary Devices Quiz 535 (20 MCQs)

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1. An example of AUTHOR'S PURPOSE is:
2. What is the term for a direct comparison that doesn't use 'like' or 'as'?
3. What is the inversion of the usual order of words in clauses called?
4. Define personification in poetry.
5. Putting human characteristics towards a non-human thing.
6. What is the literary device that refers to a meaning implied by a word apart from its literal meaning?
7. The beginning of the plot, when the setting and characters are established.
8. What is this?"Every time he opened a book, he'd be snoring in five minutes."
9. A movie about a man battling a Twister in his hometown is an example of .....
10. "He's as strong as an ox" is an example of
11. Feel a bit under the weather
12. Silly Sally swam so smoothly' is an example of:
13. Describing to help a reader experience a text
14. A literary device that shows a barrier between the characters and the audience.
15. Upon watching a commercial during the Super Bowl, you immediately believe what they are selling because of the person selling it; therefore, you go and buy it.
16. Readers can use literary devices to .....
17. "On the shore of the lagoon, the judicial district officer is one, the clerk is two, the soldier is three, both solemnly working and solemnly spitting together."What type of literary device is this an example of?
18. The dog was as sad as the color blue.
19. The horrific scene played out before my eyes, the blood and gore causing my stomach to churn.
20. What figure of speech gives a non-human thing human characteristics?