Literary Devices Quiz 371 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is a plot technique?

Correct Answer: B) The order the author chooses to present the events in the story.

2. What is the literary device used to give human characteristics to non-human entities?

Correct Answer: B) Personification.

3. Conjoined contradictory terms is the definition of which term?

Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron.

4. Example:Gosh, he is romantic; quite the Romeo!

Correct Answer: A) Allusion.

5. A seemingly contradictory statement

Correct Answer: A) Paradox.

6. EXAMPLE:The night was a blanket of darkness.

Correct Answer: B) Metaphor.

7. The feeling created in the reader by a literary work

Correct Answer: D) Mood.

8. An often repeated phrase, name, or idea is called a

Correct Answer: A) Motif.

9. This marks the place in a literary work that is the most significant to the main character and/or the plot is the .....

Correct Answer: A) Climax.

10. The time, place, and circumstances in which a story occur is called

Correct Answer: A) Setting.

11. Hissing steam and squeaking metal

Correct Answer: B) Imagery.

12. Identify the correct literary device:Paula planted the pretty pink poppies in the pot.

Correct Answer: A) Alliteration.

13. Comparison using like or as. Ex:She is as blind as a bat.

Correct Answer: C) Simile.

14. A brief remark in which a character expresses private thoughts to the audience

Correct Answer: A) Aside.

15. Mark's voice is velvet.

Correct Answer: A) Metaphor.

16. What is science fiction?

Correct Answer: D) Fantasy that uses science & technology (robots, machines, computers).

17. Which literary devices hints at something that will happen later in the text?

Correct Answer: D) Foreshadowing.

18. Comparing two or more things using "like" or "as"

Correct Answer: A) Simile.

19. The turning point of a story

Correct Answer: D) Climax.

20. A person's account of his or her life

Correct Answer: C) Autobiography.