Literary Devices Quiz 166 (20 MCQs)

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1. In the song "Baby" by Justin Bieber, the part that goes:"And I was like baby, baby, baby ohLike baby, baby, baby noLike baby, baby, baby ohI thought you'd always be mine, mine, "repeats multiple times throughout the song. This is an example of .....
2. "He stood looking up at the ventilator grille in the hall and suddenly remembered that something lay hidden behind the grille, something that seemed to peer down at him now."
3. What is the imaginary voice a poet uses when writing a poem?
4. I remember a scary time in my life. It was when I had to move schools in fifth grade.
5. Something which represents something else besides its literal meaning
6. "The night was black as ever, but bright stars lit up the sky in beautiful and varied constellations which were sprinkled across the astronomical landscape."
7. I am so tired I could sleep forever.
8. A branch of drama that treats in a serious and dignified style the sorrowful or terrible events encountered or caused by a heroic individual.
9. When the story tells us the way a character is (their age, appearance)
10. The overall feeling, or atmosphere, of a text often created by the author's use of imagery and word choice is called .....
11. A recipe or instruction manual would best represent which text structure type?
12. A person says one thing and means another; closely related to sarcasm
13. The motto of the state ofWyoming is "Cedant armatogae." In this phrase TOGAE isan example of the rhetorical figure:
14. I had heard the same tone a million times.
15. An extravagant exaggeration
16. An imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one.
17. Christy didn't like to spend money. She was no Scrooge, but she seldom purchased anything except the bare necessities.
18. A fire station burns down.
19. A reference to a well-known person, place, or event
20. Which literary device is used in the sentence 'Don't be such a Scrooge!'?