Literary Devices Quiz 8 (20 MCQs)

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1. A picture in your head.
2. A reference to someone in history, literature, or the Bible that creates a mental picture
3. The effect of the words and images on the audience
4. The comparison of one thing to another using like or as.
5. "I sang like a bird" is an example of a .....
6. Science dealing with the order of celestial bodies
7. True or False:all 4 nonfiction text structures (problem & solution, compare & contrast, cause & effect, sequence)-can occur in fiction, as well.
8. The story of a person's life written by anotherperson
9. What is the pronoun used for synthetic personalisation?
10. When the reader learns about a character through a description in the text.
11. "I was working as a cashier in a grocery store. The customers were usually friendly, but one sticks out in my mind. She spat her mean words fast and they were meant to hurt like a deep cut." (this is an example of ..... )
12. Which literary device involves a character speaking to another character or characters?
13. Which of the following is an example of onomaopoeia?
14. This is the ordinary language people use in speaking or writing
15. In a literature class, Lily was asked to identify the literary device in the sentence:'The world is a stage.'
16. Which of the following refers to the use of words that imitate sound or suggest their meaning?
17. "The blacksmith's shop, the mill, the church, the stores were hunched."
18. Interrupts the chronological order of the story
19. Nowadays people have chosen to drive Chevy trucks because they have won safest vehicle every year.
20. Who is the famous Greek author of fables?