Literary Devices Quiz 420 (20 MCQs)

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1. Audience knows more about a situation or event than the characters do
2. Technique in which writers employ two or more characters to be engaged in conversation with one another
3. Study of mankind
4. A subdivision of an act in a dramatic presentation in which the setting is fixed and the time continuous
5. Definition:the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of nearby words
6. Is the use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in the plot.
7. When the audience knows something that the characters don't is called .....
8. "Sarah saw six seahorses while swimming" is an example of .....
9. Billy feels strangely drawn to the Bell and Dragon and was compelled to enter.
10. Your explanation is as clear as mud.
11. Godfather Death is a folktale/fable from which country?
12. An inoffensive expression substituted for an offensive one is the definition of what term?
13. This sentence contains an example of:He ran around an heap of metal being swallowed by a greedy bramble of blackberry bushes.
14. Read the passage and determine its text structure! Ansel Bourne was a preacher, carpenter, and most likely an inspiration for the name "Bourne" in the movie and novel series, The Bourne Identity. Up until 1857, Bourne had been a carpenter, until he was called to religion. After 1858, he worked as an evangelical preacher, until 1887. He set up shop in Norristown, Pennsylvania, as a candy maker using the name A.J. Brown. Three months later, he woke up not knowing where he was, with no memory of the previous months. The case of Mr. Bourne has fascinated psychologists, and some film makers, for years.
15. How is repetition used in Horror?
16. A pilot has a fear of heights is an example of ..... (how can a person who flies fear heights?!)
17. A feeling or atmosphere a writer creates for the reader
18. The main character of the story is faced with an important decision that could change his life entirely. Which type of conflict is shown?
19. Multimodal textCombination of two or more communication modes (for example, print, image and spoken text, as in film or computer presentations).
20. "Guys are messy and unclean, but are really hard workers." is an example of .....