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Literary Devices Quiz 281 (20 MCQs)

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1. "The blood red clouds were scattered across the western sky as the sun inched below the the rocky horizon." This is an example of .....
2. A play on words that exploits the multiple meanings or similar sounds of a word.
3. Imagine you're in a thrilling detective story! Olivia, Anika, and Daniel are trying to identify the unique style or tone that makes an author's writing distinctive. What do they call this?
4. Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, sighing, through all her works, gave signs of woe.-John Milton
5. The boss is like a lion. What type of figurative language is this?
6. An implied comparison between two unlike things that have something important in common.
7. Identify the type of irony in the following sentence:'The blind man was given a beautiful painting as a gift.'
8. What is the mood in a story?
9. That house has been there since the dawn of time. It's really old, and is starting to fall apart.
10. If we know something happening in the story that the character don't, what type of irony is this?
11. A(n) ..... is a story in which the characters, settings, and actions stand for something beyond themselves.
12. An object, person, place or experience that represents something else.
13. He was as slow as a sloth.
14. An example of this device might be:The repeated image/idea of dying plants
15. She was as wise as an owl.
16. A struggle between two opposing forces, especially involving the protagonist.
17. The statements "less is more" and "I am nobody" are examples of .....
18. Keep your eyes peeled for my missing book.
19. Putting two different things close together to show the differences more clearly.
20. The pedestrian received an angry honk from an impatient driver.
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