Literary Devices Quiz 546 (20 MCQs)

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1. The time, place, physical details and circumstances in which a story takes place.
2. Seat of my sleigh
3. What type of Irony is used when one thing is expected to happen and then something opposite occurs?
4. An author states exactly the personality of a character
5. The art of persuasion using literary devices through speeches, media, or argumentation is called .....
6. What is MAN VS. NATURE?
7. The rain ran down the road.
8. The giving of human characteristics to something non-human such as an inanimate object or a concept.
9. Identify the literary device in the following passage: "That's the journey we're on today. But let me tell you how I came to be here. As most of you know, I'm not a native of this great state. I ..... I moved to Illinois over two decades ago. I was a young man then, just a year out of college. I knew no one in Chicago when I arrived, was without money or family connections. But a group of churches had offered me a job as a community organizer for the grand sum of 13, 000 dollars a year. And I accepted the job, sight unseen, motivated then by a single, simple, powerful idea:that I might play a small part in building a better America" (Obama 2).
10. Bird is a symbol for freedom.
11. "She was the most beautiful girl in the world" is an example of what?
12. What has words that consist of words and phrases that appeal to a reader's five senses?
13. The time period and location of a literary piece.
14. I can do a cartwheel! It's a piece of cake! What does the idiom "Piece of cake" mean?
15. Words like "the sloping porch, " "the chipping paint, " and "the rotting mold" are all examples of what?
16. Is the following a simile or not? Jesus is tall like a giraffe.
17. Interest and suspense are built during which part of the story?
18. Is this Imagery:I saw the stars in the sky
19. Why does Poppy fall into Glitter Creek?
20. Universal patterns in all stories and mythologies regardless of culture or historical period and hypothesized that part of the human mind contained a collective unconscious shared by all members of the human species.