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Literary Devices Quiz 70 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the best definition of imagery?
2. Appealing to emotions
3. Language that appeals to any sense or any combination of senses
4. 'The sun was bright and the sky was clear. Joan jogged down the path with Rex at her side and smiled about last night's victory.' What's the tone?
5. This happens when things are endowed with human qualities or are represented as possessing human form.
6. Which literary device is used in the sentence:'He was as brave as a lion'?
7. A type of personification where emotions are given to a setting, an object or the weather.
8. In the sentence 'The sun smiled down on me', what literary device is being used?
9. An emerald is as green as grass, A ruby red as blood; A sapphire shines as blue as heaven; A flint lies in the mud.
10. Linda heard a scratching at the door. As she walked through the kitchen to the living room, the scratching seemed to get louder. She assumed it was the cat, who might have snuck out, but she saw Snowball, fast asleep on the corner of the couch. The scratching became more insistent and urgent. Linda rushed to the door and swung it open, expecting to see something horrible or frightening. It was a branch, blown by the wind and scratching against the door.
11. The pigs oink as they flop in the mud.
12. The main character
13. Semantic field
14. A character that does not undergo any internal changes during the story-stays the same from beginning to end
15. A vignette has a plot?
16. Which of the following is an example of irony?a) A fire station burns down.b) The sun rises every morning.c) The flowers bloomed in spring.d) The wind howled through the night.
17. Trey looked out the window. The rain was still pouring down. He threw his baseball glove on the couch with a sigh. The thunder cracked and his phone dinged. Trey picked up the phone. It was a message from his cousin:The game is cancelled because of the weather. Trey didn't reply to the message. He threw the phone back on his bed and rubbed his temples. The rain pattered on the roof. What is the mood of this paragraph?
18. A writer's use of hints or clues to indicate events and situations that will occur in a later plot.
19. A recurring image, word, phrase, action, idea, object, or situation used throughout a work (or in several works by one author), that ties the current situation to previous ones
20. Appealing to the readers senses is called?
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