Literary Devices Quiz 36 (20 MCQs)

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1. Define:ASSONANCE?
2. What is the time and place of a story, movie, or novel?
3. What is the tone of a poem or literary work?
4. The intentional repeating of a sound, word, phrase, line, or idea in order to create a sense of importance.
5. A type of figurative language that gives human characteristics to inanimate objects
6. You are reading a story that makes you feel scared and that's what the author wanted, what is this an example of?
7. What literary device is used in this line: "Go slow over the road."
8. Words such as "crack", "hum", and "buzz" are examples .....
9. Something said in a way for ironic contrast
10. The feeling or atmosphere that the writer creates through word choice
11. Hanging with you is as easy as pie
12. A literary device that reflects on repetition in two or more nearby words of initial consonant sounds.
13. When the opposite of what you expect to happen is what happens
14. What is the malapropism in this example? "The doctor gave me a subscription for my allergies."
15. What is a type of metaphor and is employed when non-human things, such as objects, animals, a feeling or an abstract idea, are given human attributes.
16. A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings.
17. What does a sloth symbolize?
18. What type of literary device is used in the sentence 'Tim was a beast on the football field.'?
19. "Pretty ugly" is an example of
20. What is true about "theme" ?