Literary Devices Quiz 327 (20 MCQs)

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1. When I awoke it was broad daylight and the full sun was glaring straight into my eyes.

Correct Answer: A) Personification.

2. "The moon is a sneak, " is an example of:

Correct Answer: B) Metaphor.

3. The children were flowers grown in concrete gardens.

Correct Answer: C) Metaphor.

4. "Frailty, thy name is woman!"

Correct Answer: A) Apostrophe.

5. Pop, squish, buzz, squeak are all examples of .....

Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia.

6. The use of symbols, be they words, people, marks, locations, or abstract ideas to represent something beyond the literal meaning.

Correct Answer: D) Symbolism.

7. Speech that reflects pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar typical of a geographical region.

Correct Answer: C) Dialect.

8. Common expressions that are not literal and are used by certain groups of people

Correct Answer: D) Idiom.

9. Third-person Objective:

Correct Answer: B) Narrator outside the story; uses "he, " "she, " "they" The reader knows no thoughts and feelings.

10. Appeals to readers' senses through highly descriptive language.

Correct Answer: A) Imagery.

11. This is the use of clues that hint at events that will happen later in the story

Correct Answer: A) Foreshadowing.

12. Which literary device is shown here? 10 ..... sonitu suopte11 tintinant aures .....

Correct Answer: B) Consonance.

13. In poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel

Correct Answer: B) Assonance.

14. An author's attitude toward a subject

Correct Answer: B) Tone.

15. The part of a book which lists the chapters or contents within the book.

Correct Answer: C) Table of Contents.

16. How can we define a THEME of a story?

Correct Answer: C) The central idea of the story.

17. The sound device known as alliteration involves which of the following?

Correct Answer: B) Repetition of initial consonant sounds in stressed syllables.

18. A figure of speech in which a comparison between two unlike objects is stated directly using the words "like" or "as"

Correct Answer: B) Simile.

19. The villain or negative force in a story is called a/an

Correct Answer: A) Antagonist.

20. When something happens that is the opposite of what we expect

Correct Answer: A) Situational Irony.