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Literary Devices Quiz 162 (20 MCQs)

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1. Paul knew he was doing well when he saw the pleased look on the faces of the suits in the room
2. One who seeks to mature emotionally. One who is young and naive, sees good in the world and has hope. Needs guidance.
3. This expresses the author's attitude or feelings towards the subject s/he is writing about. In most cases it remains the same throughout the story, but sometimes it may change with the progression of the story symbolizing a change of heart.
4. Do the pronouns "you, " "your, " "we, " "our, " or "yours" get used in formal, academic writing? (Except for an attention getter)
5. All of the following are types of irony EXCEPT .....
6. Narrative point of viewThe ways in which a narrator may be related to the story. For example, the narrator might take the role of first or third person, omniscient or restricted in knowledge of events, reliable or unreliable in interpretation of what happens.
7. Which figurative language is this example? The sun slid silently down into the sand.
8. Imagine you are writing a children's book. You want to describe the sound of rain falling on a tin roof. Which literary device would you use to mimic this sound?
9. Read the following and determine if the author used direct or indirect characterization. "The words fell out of his mouth so fast, he tripped over each one. "I can't do it! This project is so hard!"
10. The sun hid his face behind the clouds.
11. A literary, musical, or artistic work that imitates another's recognizable style or pieces together a medley of often incongruous elements from a number of existing works.
12. Else if you would be a man speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today. The words in BLUE are an example of
13. " ..... bony muscles hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square." -TKAM, Ch 1
14. It was so cold I saw polar bears wearing hats
15. An alphabetical listing of difficult, technical, or foreign terms with definitions or translation; usually found at the end of a book.
16. Pick the hyperbole below:
17. "Living dead" is known as an .....
18. The towering mountains loomed in the distance, their snow-capped peaks glistening in the sunlight.
19. When the reader knows something crucial that the characters do not-often leading to a shocking outcome-this is the definition of .....
20. When words that appear in a sentence or a line of poetry begin with the same sound or letter
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