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Literary Devices Quiz 155 (20 MCQs)

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1. Refers to an author's word choice. Word choice can be formal, informal, colloquial or slang.
2. Life is a marathon, is an example of what?
3. A reference to something literary, mythological, historical, or biblical that the author assumes the reader will recognize
4. That hockey player is an animal, so you better avoid him.
5. "It was a dark and stormy night."This sentence creates .....
6. In the play, "A Doll's House", Nora stands alone on the stage and speaks to herself and the audience. "You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me. It is perfectly true, Torvald. When I was at home with papa, he told me his opinion about everything, and so I had the same opinions; and if I differed from him I concealed the fact, because he would not have liked it. He called me his doll-child, and he played with me just as I used to play with my dolls. And when I came to live with you-I mean that I was simply transferred from papa's hands into yours. You arranged everything according to your own taste, and so I got the same tastes as your else I pretended to, I am really not quite sure which-I think sometimes the one and sometimes the other. When I look back on it, it seems to me as if I had been living here like a poor woman-just from hand to mouth. I have existed merely to perform tricks for you, Torvald. But you would have it so. You and papa have committed a great sin against me. It is your fault that I have made nothing of my life."
7. Which point of view is the narrator "all-knowing" on the thoughts/feelings of TWO OR MORE characters?
8. -"indeed i never shall be satisfied with Romeo till i behold him ..... dead ..... "
9. Draco Malfoy was the opposite of Harry and JK Rowling used him to show Harry's good traits. What type of literary device is this?
10. What type of literary device is found in the following quite: "But what you remember most is this tree, huge, with fat arms and mighty families of squirrels in the higher branches" (22).
11. What figurative language is used in the sentence below ..... "I've got power, poison, pain and joy inside my DNA"
12. A metaphor typically uses "like" or "as" .
13. Define:compound word
14. What is a figure of speech that directly compares two things without using 'like' or 'as'?
15. Paul said the ideas presented to him blew his mind.
16. The fire ran wild through the dry forest.
17. What is the meaning of the term 'onomatopoeia'?
18. "I entered the motel, I was the only customer. Just hang your coat there, " the manager said, "and let me help you with your reservation." There were no people or cars. The thunder clapped outside loudly and the rain came down. I shivered.This is an example of .....
19. We wanted to throw a surprise party, but Penny let the cat out of the bag.
20. Speaker directly and often emotionally addresses a person who is dead or absent, an imaginary or nonhuman entity, or a place or concept (usually an abstract idea or ideal).
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