Literary Devices Quiz 142 (20 MCQs)

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1. Identify the literary device in the sentence:'His words cut deeper than a knife.'
2. Author's attitude or feeling about what he or she is writing about
3. Ms. Leibforth's first name is .....
4. A figure of speech and literary device that creates a heightened effect through deliberate exaggeration.
5. In Tangled, Rapunzel looks out the window and dreams of seeing the floating lanterns. These lanterns come to represent freedom to her. What is this an example of?
6. ..... is an idea or feeling represented by an object.
7. " The sun was like a large ball of butter", is an example of what literary device
8. A rabbit's foot and a four leaf clover are ..... for good luck.
9. Identify the figure of speech in the following sentence:That person runs like a road-runner.
10. His hands were as cold as ice. This means:
11. The Titanic was promoted as 100% unsinkable.
12. Shows events from before the present time of the story
13. Defining relative clauses
14. What punctuation mark is used when words are omitted from words?
15. What's the definition for metaphor?
16. Uses figures of speech to be more effective, persuasive, and impactful
17. This literary device compares two things, using the words as/like.
18. Definition-a figure of speech, usually one or two words, in which seemingly contradictory terms appear side by side. This contradiction is also known as a paradox. Example-The blob fish is pretty ugly.
19. "The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor ..... " This is an example of
20. Luella wants Roger.....