Literary Devices Quiz 190 (20 MCQs)

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1. A character who changes
2. Main character in a story who lacks conventional heroic qualities and attributes, such as idealism, courage, and morality.
3. "He realized that the lantern was a great flaming eye" (6).
4. What should NOT be in your objective summary?
5. What literary device compares two different things using the words 'like' or 'as'?
6. This house is as clean as a whistle.
7. The eyes through which the story is told.
8. Irony has ..... kinds.
9. When a person intentionally says or writes one thing to mean another.
10. A central message or idea in a literary work
11. The distinctive way in which a writer uses language
12. A reference to a well-known thing the writer assumes the reader will know about.
13. He is as funny as a barrel of monkeys
14. What literary device suggests a resemblance or identity between two things?
15. Using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
16. The character says something but means something else.
17. Errors in reasoning are called .....
18. "She spun downstream like a whirligig." is an example of a .....
19. An animal or object behaving as if it were human
20. Compares to things using like or as