Literary Devices Quiz 552 (20 MCQs)

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1. I listened as my sister threw a huge rock into the river, and it went kerplunk!
2. "He saw the whole giant, tall as a tree ..... "(6)
3. What figurative language is present in the statement below?"Fear gripped the patient waiting for a diagnosis."
4. "lightning-flashing thunder-crashing"
5. "Dreams are balloons floating in the sky"
6. A similar dominant or recurring element in folk tales, advertising, or political campaigns
7. Before the teacher could assign homework, the class was saved by the bell.
8. Creates a picture in the reader's mind by making the reader see, hear, taste, smell, or touch what is being described
9. ANIMAL FARM was published at the end of:
10. What literary device is used in the sentence 'The sun smiled at us'?
11. Used step-by-step in literature to highlight and explain the details about a character in a story. It is in the initial stage in which the writer introduces the character with noticeable emergence. After introducing the character, the writer often talks about his behavior; then, as the story progresses, the thought-processes of the character.
12. What is the definition of caesura in poetry?
13. My father just gave me the talk about the birds and the bees.
14. When you as the reader know everything A-Dawg is thinking and feeling, this is ..... point of view, or all knowing
15. "It was raining, a slow, cold drizzle that for weeks had been descending from soggy black clouds. The graveyard was a slough of yellow, sucking mud, from which the rain-washed tombstones stood up in irregular battalions." (from Henry Kuttner's "The Graveyard Rats")Which literary device is being utilized throughout the above quote?
16. "It's so dark, " he thought, "that I could sleep without closing my eyes."
17. Which of the following is used in the sentence? Christian is a hungry wolf.
18. All that buzz, buzz, buzz and pop, pop, pop!
19. The city was a jungle is an example of .....
20. What is the term for the repetition of initial consonant sounds in a series of words?