Literary Devices Quiz 235 (20 MCQs)

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1. Dramatic irony is when the audience is in on a secret that the .....
2. The message or lesson the author is trying to convey in a literary piece.
3. A teacher forgets her homework and isn't able to grade the students' papers.
4. Identify the theme of this passage:
5. Characters in a drama that are opposite in nature that highlight each other's qualities.
6. Make this a simile.She sings .....
7. The literary device, Symbol, means .....
8. The example highlighted below is an example of? The wind whipped the branches all around, As the rain fell silently to the ground.
9. Name, law, custom, order
10. When a character tells the story from his/her point of view;uses words like I, me, we, us to refer to himself or herself
11. We can learn a lot about a character if we pay attention to how other people feel and act in reaction to this character.This type of characterization falls under which category?
12. When something stands for or represents something beyond itself.
13. Trapped on a dessert island, Samantha must learn how to survive the elements until she is rescued.
14. A dignitary would enter the room with great .....
15. Formation or the use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.
16. Which literary device is used to make a non-human object or idea seem human?
17. The mood implied by an author's word choice and the way that the text can make a reader feel
18. I'm so hungry I could eat a horse! What is this an example of?
19. " ..... attack follows attack along the weakening, retreating, crumbling lines, "
20. This is an example of which literary device? Do you ever feel like a plastic bagDrifting through the wind, wanting to start again?