Literary Devices Quiz 180 (20 MCQs)

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1. It is giving human qualities to inanimate things or animals.
2. Which literary device is one idea stretched over more than one line of poetry?
3. The repetition of sounds that are placed close together
4. Tone is the attitude the author adopts with regards to a specific topic, character, etc.
5. True or False-Rhyme scheme is part of the structure of a poem
6. Person, place, thing, or event that stands for something beyond itself
7. Without her glasses on, Judy felt as blind as a .....
8. What is this an example of? "An oak tree and a rosebush grew, Young and green together, Talking the talk of growing things ..... Wind and water and weather."
9. Which point of view uses a narrator or speaker outside of the text and the pronouns 'he', 'she', and 'they'?
10. What is giving human characteristics to something which is not human?
11. The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices.
12. Which of the following details provides the best hint about the landlady's secret?
13. An exaggeration in literature is known as
14. "The night was as dark as coal." This sentence is an example of:
15. The water well is as dry as a bone is an example of a(n) .....
16. A word or phrase that is used to describe something that does not literally apply to it
17. Comparing two or more subjects without using "like" or "as"
18. The bee buzzed in my ear
19. The trees danced in the wind.
20. The use of words to affect a meaning other than the usual or literal meaning of those words is .....