Literary Devices Quiz 397 (20 MCQs)

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1. The feelings and associations suggested by a word.
2. Refers to the feelings and associations created by a word.
3. Asked for emphasis or effect, but not for an answer
4. Two unlike things compared directly, implying several similar qualities.
5. Main character put against the systems or beliefs of a group.
6. This is the main idea or moral of the story.
7. The overall emotion and atmosphere created by a work of literature
8. The expression "the life is a higway" is an .....
9. Which literary device is a word that makes a sound?
10. Mallory was listening to a nutrition presentation at school and couldn't believe how much she was learning. She came to the realization of how unhealthy her family ate. She decided she wanted to get healthy and help her family get healthy too. She devised a plan to add one healthy item to their diet each Week. She also started grocery shopping with her mom to help her learn how to cook healthy. What was Mallory's motivation?
11. Which of the following uses denotation to describe a 90 year old man?
12. This is an example of which literary device? You can hear happiness staggering on down the streetFootprints dressed in redAnd the wind whispers, "Mary"
13. How many main types of irony are there?
14. Writing that appeals to the reader's physical senses (sight, taste, smell, touch, hearing)
15. During a literature class, David read a poem aloud. Luna noticed that some words in the poem sounded like the noises they were describing. What is the figure of speech that imitates the sound it represents, which Abigail later explained to Luna?
16. "I will not eat them in a house. I will not eat them with a mouse" is an example of
17. The story takes place in New York, 1776 during the Revolutionary War. This is an example of which literary device?
18. The opposition of forces within a story and can be external or internal
19. A line or lines that are repeated in a poem is .....
20. Comparison of unlike objects that does not use "like" or "as"