Literary Devices Quiz 109 (20 MCQs)

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1. I am a black ocean in your future. I am a dark ocean in your future.
2. Employing the five senses (sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste) to engage a reader's interest
3. The "turning point" of the literary work.
4. A comparison between two unlike things with the intent of giving added meaning to one of them. No special words are used.
5. Who throws their money around like dandelions into the sunlight?
6. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy.
7. The sequence of events that happen in a story
8. The repetition of consonant sounds, Ex. "Fetched fresh, as I suppose, off some sweet wood."
9. What literary device is being used in the sentence 'The sun is a golden ball'?
10. Uncle Jon smells bad and wears old clothes.
11. The point of the greatest emotional intensity.
12. "The world invented weapons and words, "
13. Which literary device is a mournful poem or lament for the dead?
14. What issue causes the conflict between Shylock and the Christian characters to come to a head?
15. Suggests a hidden meaning via the use of metaphoric examples. It is a device where the meaning of a greater, often abstract moral or political concept is conveyed with the aid of more material objects or ideas being used as an example.
16. In the phrase 'Time is money', which literary device is being used?
17. A character who has only one or two personality traits
18. Rachel ran right until she realized she was running round and round.
19. The expression of the writer's attitude toward a subject.
20. "Brian was a wall, quickly returning every tennis ball back at his opponent over the net." This is an example of .....