Literary Devices Quiz 262 (20 MCQs)

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1. An antagonist is a character that .....

Correct Answer: A) Causes conflict.

2. The teacher saying "recess time" was music to my ears.

Correct Answer: A) Metaphor.

3. This is the set of ideas associated with a word in addition to its explicit meaning.

Correct Answer: C) Connotation.

4. What are the sequence of events in a story called?

Correct Answer: B) Plot.

5. What is a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead, called?

Correct Answer: B) An elegy.

6. A comment said only to the audience; the other characters on stage do not hear the comment.

Correct Answer: B) Aside.

7. Grandma Sands laughed just like the Wicked Witch of the West.

Correct Answer: A) Simile.

8. To evoke means:

Correct Answer: A) To bring to mind; call forth.

9. A story takes place in Ola, AR during 2016. This is an example of

Correct Answer: C) Setting.

10. Conjoining contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence')

Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron.

11. Select the sentence that illustrates the use of proper parallel structure.

Correct Answer: B) Amy Tran has wit, charm, and a pleasing personality.

12. Great, gregarious Gary from Gryffindor likes grapes.

Correct Answer: C) Consonance.

13. Using language that signifies the opposite of its literal meaning

Correct Answer: D) Irony.

14. Soon, I was riding my bike to the animal shelter. What is the phrase in blue?

Correct Answer: C) None of these.

15. Comparisons between two unlike things using the words "like" or "as" are called .....

Correct Answer: A) Similes.

16. WHich type of irony is also a type of figurative language?

Correct Answer: B) Verbal.

17. A word or phrase that has a special meaning:It's raining cats and dog.

Correct Answer: B) Idiom.

18. The end of the story; return to stability; the untying of a knot

Correct Answer: A) Denouement.

19. It is a deliberate exaggeration for effect. What is it called?

Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole.

20. What does Flashback mean?

Correct Answer: A) Is a switch from the present time of the story to a scene in the past.