Literary Devices Quiz 360 (20 MCQs)

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1. The repetition of the same sound within nearby words. Usually the repetition of consonants at the beginning of a word. Ex:Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
2. Find the simple predicate in the following sentence:The lonely sheep went bowling on Tuesday.
3. In Greek mythology, a mythical bird called the phoenix lives for hundreds of years before bursting into flames at its death. However, it soon rises from its own ashes and is reborn. What is the meaning of the allusion in the sentence below? Fans debated whether their team would rise from the ashes.
4. Alice's adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do:once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book, " thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?" So she was considering, in her own mind whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.
5. Which is a form of Personification?
6. A warning or indication of a future event in a narrative
7. The turning point or most exciting part of the story is called .....
8. Spoken lines between characters
9. Which of the following is used in the sentence? When his team lost, Lindell was a big baby.
10. "It was a mountain of gleaming metal that towered high above the children and their parents."
11. Figurative languageWord groups/phrases used in a way that differ from the expected or everyday usage. They are used in a non-literal way for particular effect (for example:simile-'white as a sheet'; metaphor-'all the world's a stage'; personification-'the wind grabbed at my clothes').
12. What is this:She is a beautiful flower.
13. I leaped out the window and heard timber crashing and the flames roaring right behind me. I staggered, almost falling, coughing and sobbing for breath.
14. The bacon sizzled in the pan.
15. Attempting to expose or criticize the corruption or foolishness of a person/society.
16. My bed flipped and went BAM!!!
17. Green Day:I walk this empty street On the Boulevard of broken dreams Where the city sleeps And I'm the only one and I walk alone
18. Reference to another work of art, literature, etc.
19. We can't buy that; it costs an arm and a leg!
20. A comparison of two things in which no word of comparison (like or as) is used.