Literary Devices Quiz 334 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which literary device is this:the weather is so bad, it's raining cats and dogs
2. Where animals, inanimate objects, or non-human things are portrayed as people, by walking, talking, or being given arms, legs, facial features, human movements
3. Which of these groups of words are onomatopoeic?
4. "The students roughly seized the girl" is an example of
5. Stores that feature characters like Cinderella exist in many cultures around the world. Cinderella is a(n)
6. A kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human
7. What is this an example of?A fire station catching on fire.
8. Play on words when words have more than one meaning
9. When the author reveals the character's personality through their actions or speech
10. President Snow from The Hunger Games is an example of which type of character?
11. EXAMPLE:Her hand was as cold as ice when she touched my feverish forehead, sending shivers down my spine.
12. A word which describes a character's personality, or how she/he acts in the story; must be backed up with evidence from the text.
13. The dog smiled with/ mouth jagged gaped.
14. What is the series of events in a story?
15. Identify the figure of speech in the following sentence:The water angrily flowed towards the sea.
16. Which character in The Alchemist represents the concept of 'Maktub'?
17. "A word is deadWhen it is said, Some say.I say it justBegins to liveThat day."
18. "O Captain! My Captain!"
19. The tree spread its gigantic, sun-flecked shoulders.
20. Which of these is NOT an example of irony?