Literary Devices Quiz 356 (20 MCQs)

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1. A girl wakes up late for school and quickly rushes to get there. As soon as she arrives, though, she realizes that it's Saturday and there is no school.What kind of irony is this?
2. Use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities, by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal sense
3. A book written about one's own life is called
4. The person who tells the story. Could be first, second or third person.
5. Which does not belong to the group?
6. "Mr. Neck makes a note in his book. 'I knew you were trouble the first time I saw you. I've taught here for twenty-four years and I can tell what's going on in a kid's head just by looking in their eyes" ' (9)
7. The teller of the story.
8. What is the purpose of using understatement in a political cartoon, according to Trisha, Savar and Shaurya?
9. Juxtaposes concepts with opposing meanings within a word or phrase that creates an apparent self-contradiction. Can be used to illustrate a a paradox.
10. Which part of a story's plot shows the final outcome?
11. What is main character of a story called?
12. The feelings the author creates using words
13. In a story, 2 characters are having a verbal argument=
14. This figure of speech that gives animals or objects human characteristics.
15. The outcome of a situation is the opposite of what is expected is called .....
16. True or false? An element of Gothic literature could involve wild and untamed nature.
17. What is the purpose of personification in a story?
18. "We have. in this country, two million children under the age of sixteen years who are earning their bread."The use of the bread here is an example of .....
19. What type of figurative language is shown below:Chester Cheetah chomped on chunks of chewy cheddar cheese.
20. What literary device uses an object or action that means something other than its literal meaning?