Literary Devices Quiz 350 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which literary device uses deliberate exaggeration to make something seem larger or more important than it actually is?
2. The wind skipped through the trees.
3. Which point of view tells ALL character's thoughts and emotions and is told from the outside narrator? This is the ALL KNOWING narrator.
4. A movie you are watching shows a woman jogging in the woods. The next scene shows a mountain lion lying in wait down the path where the woman is jogging.
5. A simile is a comparison using like or as
6. Descriptive or figurative language that appeals to the senses.
7. Definition:A brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art.
8. It is words or lines with repetition of vowel sounds within words.
9. What is a logical fallacy?
10. Which type of imagery is associated with the sense of sight?
11. Lady Macbeth says, "Look like the innocent flower, /But be the serpent under it" to Macbeth. This sentence is an example of .....
12. He sells snails.
13. The logical assumption or educated guess based on facts or observed knowledge
14. This technique involves encouraging people to think or act in some way simply because other people are doing so.
15. Literary devices help affect the ..... of the text.
16. She sells sea shells is an example of .....
17. An antagonist is.....?
18. The broken windshield in Hunters in the Snow by Tobias Wolff
19. A traditional story intended to explain some mystery of nature, religious doctrine, or cultural belief. The gods and goddesses of mythology have supernatural powers, but the human characters usually do not.
20. The method an author uses to revealcharacters and their personalities