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Literary Devices Quiz 547 (20 MCQs)

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1. "Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get. "-Forrest Gump
2. The time or place in which a story takes place is the
3. A feeling of uncertainty about the outcome of events in a literary work.
4. This is a kind of a narrative or a description in which the characters, setting, objects, actions or events represent an idea or concept and sometimes even another real life event. This kind of a literary device operates on two levels. On the surface level we have a narrative which has all the characteristics of a narrative/description and has value as a stand alone text. At a deeper level, it is a text which uses its elements as symbols which represent other ideas-abstract or concrete-and many a times convey a moral, religious, ethical or political message and this aspect is of a greater literary value. eg. Animal Farm by George Orwell. It is often called an extended Metaphor.
5. When the narrator uses pronouns like, "she, " "he, " and "they, " but the reader gets the thoughts and actions of only one character
6. A cliffhanger is a plot device used to end the story in a complete closing
7. A group of worlds with a different meaning than the literal dictionary definition of each word.
8. A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things using the words "like" or "as."
9. ..... modify/ describe a noun. Ex:tall, pretty, smelly, fast, tired.
10. The author shows the reader about a character's personality
11. I am as angry as a bull at the rodeo. This sentence is an example of .....
12. The trees stood at attention as the majestic breeze ran through the town
13. You say something, but you really mean the opposite!
14. What is the recurring theme in The Alchemist that represents the pursuit of one's personal legend?
15. The act of scanning or analyzing poetry in terms of its rhythmic pattern is called:
16. Cool as a cucumber means .....
17. "As I breathed in with short, choppy, grieving, devastated breaths, I could still smell the scent of my grandma's perfume, and I could hear her laughing at bad jokes" is a description that employs:
18. The story line.
19. A reference to something else. It's when a writer mentions a well-known person, place, or some other work or refers to an earlier part of the current work. Example:From the song by Taylor Swift: "That you were Romeo, you were throwing pebbles/and my daddy said 'Stay away from Juliet" '
20. The computer in our classroom is a dinosaur.
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