Literary Devices Quiz 551 (20 MCQs)

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1. Same sound at the end of words.
2. Obsessive desire to write
3. Jokes or funny skits that balance out the serious sections.
4. "The stars danced playfully in the sky."
5. Zoomorphism
6. ..... is giving a character personality, depth and motivation. Making the character 3D
7. Objective because someone else writes about the person of topic. The writer's opinions and perspectives of the details and events are expressed.
8. Which literary device is exemplified in the line 'The wind whispered through the trees'?
9. A group of words that has a collective meaning different from that of the individual words
10. The comparison of one thing to another without using like or as.
11. The repetition of the same letter or sound in words near one another.
12. This is an element of a short story is referred to as the overall emotional meaning of the story.
13. ..... are works that provide an account of connected events. To put it simply, a ..... is a story.
14. When Cam noticed the gigantic wasp's nest, he took off like a horsefly from a swatter.
15. "I was talking to my friends at lunch today trying to explain what a metaphor is. Let me go back a few years and tell you a story that will help you understand figurative language." (This story is in what point of view?)
16. I've told you a million times to write your name on the paper as soon as you get it.
17. "Thy head is full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat."
18. A literary device that refers to the use of symbols in a literary work.
19. What type of character does not change over the course of the story, but stays the same?
20. After the ball was run over by the car, it was as flat as a pancake. What are the words in blue an example of?