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Literary Devices Quiz 159 (20 MCQs)

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1. A story's main theme might be difficult to figure out because:
2. Which of the following is an example of foreshadowing?a) The dark clouds signaled an approaching storm.b) The character's name is Rose, symbolizing beauty.c) The author describes the setting in great detail.d) The protagonist finds a mysterious key.
3. The musical quality produced by stressed and unstressed syllables
4. I told you a million times to be quiet.
5. To create the mood of the story, the author
6. Ana had spent an unhappy night of tossing and turning. Yesterday, the wrong move had caused her to lose the volleyball match. As she sat up in bed the next morning, she could see the sun just peeking over the bushes in her back yard. As the sun rose higher and shined more brightly, Ana felt her spirits lifting. Feeling her confidence return, Ana thought to herself, I know I can work harder, and I'll make the team forget yesterday ever happened. In this passage, the rising sun symbolizes-
7. The repetition of a consonant sound; She sells sea shells by the seashore.
8. This literary device uses a symbol to represent something different than it's literal sense
9. A reference to another person, place, event, literary work, etc.
10. When something stands for something else
11. Who is the antagonist in the story of the 3 little pigs?
12. I remember my first time on a roller coaster like it was yesterday. I was six years old and terrified.
13. What is the foreshadow in this passage?It was only 5:00AM, so everyone else in the house was still asleep. As they crept through the kitchen to the back door, Mary sniffed the air. It had the faint scent of coffee and something sweet. She shrugged it off and followed Justin out the door, down the back steps, and out onto the boat dock. The fog had settled over the lake, making it impossible to see anything.
14. It is the repeated use of a word of line to lay emphasis
15. The storm came in so fast. We didn't have any time to prepare.
16. "Just as a Sword is the Weapon of a Warrior, a Pen is the Weapon of a Writer" is an example of .....
17. Which is an example of an oxymoron?
18. What type of figurative language gives human characteristics to nonhuman things?
19. An explanation, often employing metaphor and/or simile, in which an idea or a thing is compared to something that is quite different from it, but that would be familiar to the reader.
20. Which Literary Device is in the following sentence:The car was speeding down the road like a Tesla Rocket.
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