Literary Devices Quiz 82 (20 MCQs)

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1. When the story gives you background information on the characters and setting of the story before it started, what is it called?

Correct Answer: B) Exposition.

2. Determine if the sentence contains a simile or a metaphor. 'The children were puppets, merely doing what they were told.'

Correct Answer: B) Metaphor.

3. When the author presents something as less significant than it really is

Correct Answer: B) Understatement.

4. When a speaker says exactly the opposite of what he/she means this is an example of:(choose the best answer)

Correct Answer: C) Verbal irony.

5. I like that boom boom pow.Them chickens are jacking my style.-The Black Eyed Peas, "Boom Boom Pow"

Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia.

6. It is a repetition of the consonant sound.

Correct Answer: B) Alliteration.

7. When a writer hints that something is going to happen in the story, it is called .....

Correct Answer: C) Foreshadowing.

8. Alliteration means:

Correct Answer: A) When the first consonant is repeated in words:Suzy sells soup.

9. The main idea or meaning of a text. Often, this is an insight about human life revealed in a literary work

Correct Answer: B) Theme.

10. "I'd rather chase the sun than wait for it, " is an example of what?

Correct Answer: C) Metaphor.

11. The author's choice of words or phrases in a literary work

Correct Answer: B) Diction.

12. What is a comparison of two things without using "like" or "as" ?

Correct Answer: C) Metaphor.

13. Second-person

Correct Answer: C) A storytelling narrative where the narrator uses You; the narrator is narrating about you.

14. What was the central conflict in "Button, Button"

Correct Answer: B) Person vs. self (Norma vs. the temptation to press the button).

15. The "earth opened like the petals of a flower ready to be picked."

Correct Answer: A) Simile.

16. A narrative or picture story enclosed within another story, where both stories are of equal interest

Correct Answer: B) Parallel Story.

17. The city streets were bustling with people, cars honking and neon signs illuminating the night.

Correct Answer: A) Visual imagery.

18. How long does Liesel wait to bathe when she arrives at Himmel Street?

Correct Answer: C) Two weeks.

19. The definition for Foreshadowing is .....

Correct Answer: A) They are hints and clues the author gives that sets the reader up for the climax or resolution.

20. Which word means a word that sounds like the noise that it describes?

Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia.