Literary Devices Quiz 564 (17 MCQs)

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1. The way an author reveals details about a character's personality traits
2. The voice in the poem (not always the poet).
3. In Roald Dahl's A Lamb to the Slaughter, a woman kills her husband with a frozen leg of lamb. When the cops arrive, she cooks the lamb and feeds it to them, effectively making them eat the evidence of her crime. What type of irony is this?
4. The author's attitude toward his or subject matter and toward the audience.
5. What character trait is revealed here? After glancing around to make sure she wasn't being watched, Marissa slide the candy bar into her pocket. She walked out of store casually, not stopping to pay.
6. The repetition of the same consonant sound in words occurring near one another
7. A thing, an idea, or an animal is given human attributes.
8. Which sentence shows a comma separating extra information about the subject?
9. A group of words whose collective meaning is quite different from their individual, literal meaning.
10. In Tears of Tiger, Sharon Draper had a negative ..... about drinking and driving.
11. Sally sold seashells by the seashore.This is an example of .....
12. Which of the following statements is true of imagery?
13. Who is my favorite rapper?
14. A piece of writing tries to hint at a person, place, thing, literature, or art
15. An old turtle looked up and said, "Mr. Sky, I have lived a long time.I have seen it all, And what they say is true. There is nothing new under the sun." "Really?" said Sky. And from six miles up, he dropped A single snowflake. Which sentence describes the theme of the poem?
16. The Ghost of Christmas ..... shows Scrooge that Bob Cratchit lives in poor conditions and barely has a Christmas dinner for his family.
17. Which is Onomatopoeia?