Literary Devices Quiz 368 (20 MCQs)

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1. Characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation
2. How do you determine an author's purpose and craft in fictional texts, and why is this analysis essential for a deeper understanding of the narrative?
3. What literary device is used in the phrase:'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers'?
4. Choose the correct option."I walked a million miles to get here."
5. "Military intelligence" and "jumbo shrimp" are examples of:
6. This device is a figure of speech that compares two things using "like" or "as":
7. "I might just fade into Bolivian." -Mike Tyson
8. When something unexpected happens in a story or other literary writing, this is known as
9. "Love is an endless river." In this line, love is being compared to a river, using:
10. "Peter pranced playfully around the playground" is an example of .....
11. Repetition of vowel sounds across a line of text or poetry.
12. A struggle between two opposing forces, usually a protagonist and an antagonist. / A fight between two opposing forces, usually a protagonist and an antagonist.
13. When one syllable at the end of a word isn't pronounced, but is joined to the next syllable
14. The reference to a subject matter like a person, place, event or literary work in a literary piece is a(n)
15. The shelter was a circus of sights and sounds. What is the phrase in blue?
16. Irony in which a person says or writes one thing and means another, or uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning
17. She sells sea shells by the sea shore is an example of:
18. Which word is determined by the same letter assigned to the rhyming words at the end of each line?
19. "The cookie quickly looked brick-like in the oven, " is an example of
20. Extreme use of exaggeration to create emphasis