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Literary Devices Quiz 264 (20 MCQs)

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1. "This is the one song everyone/ would like to learn:the song/ that is irresistible" // the song that forces men/ to leap overboard in squadrons/ even though they see the beached skulls"
2. What isn't a pun?
3. A reference or indirect mention to a piece of literature, person, place, or idea that is meant to be understood by the listener or reader. In English literature these are most commonly biblical, cultural, historical, or literal. This is a definition of which literary device?
4. An imaginative comparison between two unlike things in which one thing issaid to be another thing
5. Choose the term that BEST matches the definition. a person, place, thing or event used to represent something else
6. "Never nibble on you nails when you are nervous" is
7. Humorous, satirical, lighthearted, tongue-in-cheek
8. Comparing two seemingly unlike things using like or as
9. Hints that something is going to happen in the storyEx. George tells Lennie in the opening chapter that if he gets into trouble to go back and hide in the brush by the river.
10. Turning point in the story
11. She was as smart as a dictionary.
12. What literary device is present below? Christian bent the ball like Messi.
13. What literary device is used in the phrase 'time flies'?a) Imageryb) Similec) Metaphord) Personification
14. The part of the plot that gives necessary background information.
15. Events that result from the decision of the climax
16. The snow danced around in the wind.
17. From the The Giver:When some is killed it is called "release."
18. What effect does hyperbole create?
19. "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers."
20. This figure of speech compares two unlike things using like or as to help make the comparison.
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