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Literary Devices Quiz 329 (20 MCQs)

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1. The use of an object or action that has a deeper meaning than its literal meaning.
2. The leading character struggles against ideas, practices, or customs of other people.
3. An unusual set of circumstances for which the reader craves an explanation; used to create suspense
4. The outside narrator only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character.
5. I slept like the dead.
6. What type of irony occurs when an audience or reader knows something before characters in a literary work or show know?
7. "He was hopping about among the saucepans and the machines like a child among his Christmas presents, not knowing which thing to look at first."
8. An expression that should not be interpreted literally; its meaning is figurative and means something quite different from the literal meaning of the phrase
9. How the author reveals a character's personality traits and/or physical appearance ..... there are two types direct and indirect
10. Hints, clues or a warning that something will happen later in the story
11. Which literary device is shown here? 13 otium, Catulle, tibi molestum est:14 otio exsultas nimiumque gestis:15 otium et reges prius et beatas .....
12. A trope that compares two distinct things by using words such as like or as to link the vehicle (image) and the tenor (subject).
13. "I've told you a million times to write your name on the paper as soon as you get it." This is an example of .....
14. The snow was as white as a cloud.
15. An object or idea that repeats itself throughout a literary work. It may contribute to the development of a theme and is called a
16. It is when the writer evokes the 5 senses of the reader.
17. Book
18. When the character does not change throughout the text, which word best describe that character?
19. A police officer.
20. A story with an underlying meaning as well as a literal one.
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