Literary Devices Quiz 331 (20 MCQs)

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1. This device is the central idea of a work of literature:
2. A figure of speech in which an animal, object or idea is given a personality and described as a human.
3. Figure of thought:One of the two major divisions of figures of speech (the other being rhetorical figures).
4. Which example below is an oxymoron?
5. The specific choice of words used to help determine the style in which the person is speaking or writing
6. '"But there's a catch ..... by the end of the year you must figure out how to make your object say something, express an emotion, speak to everyone who looks at it" ' (12)
7. Clues that hint at what's to come
8. Macbeth kills Duncan and then almost immediately decides that someone else must die because of the witches predictions. Who?
9. The recording or re-creation of a character's flow of thought
10. When you say one thing, but mean the opposite
11. Author gives a hint as to what is to come later on in the story
12. MY BREAKES SCREECHED TO A STOP AT THE RED LIGHT .....
13. When you are analyzing poetry and you're trying to find the meaning beyond the literal meaning of the words, you are looking at the .....
14. What is the name of Ben Tang's store?
15. The act of repeating (an event, word, sound, etc)
16. The meaning/emotions associated with a word
17. What is this:He is as happy as a clam
18. Highest point of emotional intensity in the plot.
19. At 3 p.m. Jorge said, "I'm STARVING. I haven't eaten since lunch."
20. The character struggles against an outside force.