Literary Devices Quiz 404 (20 MCQs)

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1. The word "dactyl" comes from the Greek meaning .....
2. Third-person omniscient:
3. ..... are the people, animals, or ideas in a story. The development of the ..... is what moves the action, or plot, of the story forward.
4. A poetic device that compares two essentially unlike things, finding a certain similarity between them, and using "like" or "as" to make a comparison.
5. Giving human qualities, traits, or characteristics to nonhuman things
6. Which is an example of an epilogue?
7. When a protagonist goes against their environment, that falls under .....
8. Yoda's speech pattern, "Ready are you?" is called?
9. Reference made to a well-known person, event, or place from history, music, art, or another literary work.
10. If I personify something, then I give it what?
11. The flow of words throughout a meter
12. Imitate sounds.
13. Which literary device is used in the sentence:'I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse'?
14. "Making friends" and "sharing things with others" are common THEMES in children's books.
15. Example:In the movie, Jaws, when a young man is laying on a float in the ocean, and the camera angle is shown underwater getting closer to his legs with intense music playing in the background, this would be an example of what?
16. The contrast between what a character in a story knows about a situation and what readers or viewers know about it
17. Which literary genre often includes a story within a story, where a main narrative serves as a framework for other smaller stories?
18. "The hum of a thousand bees" is an example of
19. Literary devices are also called .....
20. Which literary device is being used in the following sentence:'The world is a stage, we are merely players.'?