Literary Devices Quiz 158 (20 MCQs)

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1. The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines or a poem or verse
2. Natural laws of human development as they relate to environment.
3. What is this an example of?The storm clouds began to cry.
4. The Center for Disease Control advises everyone to get a flu vaccination.
5. Which literary device is used in the sentence 'The wind whistled in the air.'?
6. This is an extended work in prose, either fictitious or partly so, dealing with character, action, thought, etc, especially in the form of a story
7. Is Flashback a Literary device?
8. Which literary device compares two different things using the words 'like' or 'as'?
9. "The old charts call it 'Ship-Trap Island, "' Whitney replied. "A suggestive name, isn't it? Sailors have a curious dread of the place. I don't know why. Some superstition ..... "
10. "The children pressed to each other like so many roses ..... "
11. It is going to take a zillion years to get through medical school. What is this?
12. An extreme exaggeration within literature to express importance.
13. A reference to a literary work to something famous .....
14. "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" "My love is a red, red rose"
15. Break a leg is what kind of literary device?
16. When an author in their own work refers to an event in another work, this is called a(n) .....
17. This is an example of which literary device? We only said goodbye with wordsI died a hundred times
18. I was so thirsty that I could drink a thousand juice boxes!
19. It is the repetition of words, phrases, or clauses at the beginning of two or more clauses or sentences in a row.
20. A story set within a story, narrative, or movie, told by a main or supporting character; the character starts telling a story, to other characters, or physically writes it down, thus revealing the details to the audience