Literary Devices Quiz 250 (20 MCQs)

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1. The fog crept in on little feet.
2. A play on words; sometimes on different senses or sounds
3. Uneasy feeling that a reader gets when they don't know what is going to happen next
4. Identify the tone of the passage:"Lana paced up and down the hall, and every few minutes headed to the window to check for the mail carrier. When he finally showed up, she ran down the path and stretched out her hand for the mail. She took a deep breath and, hands shaking, ripped open the envelope."
5. When the story is told from a character's point of view; you will see pronouns like "I, me, we, etc."
6. "My alarm yelled at me this morning." Which literary device is used here?
7. Rolling over peaks and through valleys like a car on a roller coaster
8. Which of these is an example of metaphor?
9. Bob and Sally got into an argument. Sally accused Bob of cheating with Jane. Bob and Jane were able to prove that they were not cheating. As a result, Sally apologized to Bob and Jane. Of what type of conflict is this an example?
10. A word or phrase that is not formal; slang.
11. A news segment features a city-wide donation to the food shelf to combat local poverty and hunger. This is an example of which text structure type?
12. Rufus smiles as wide as the ocean.
13. What is the most intense part of the story?
14. A repeated theme is called a
15. The literal meaning
16. A narrator whose knowledge is limited to one character
17. Poem made of 3 lines where the first line has 5 syllables, the second line has 7 syllables, and the third line has 5 syllables. It has no rhyme scheme or meter.
18. Verisimilitude
19. Epics open in medias res or in the middle of the action, and we learn of past events through flashbacks.
20. "I'm a BARGAIN shopper" vs. "I'm a CHEAPSKATE."