Literary Devices Quiz 470 (20 MCQs)

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1. The plot element that drives the action in a story. Man vs Man, Man vs Society, etc.
2. What is the persuasive appeal that is based on trust, usually featuring a celebrity or professional?
3. The stars are winking at me. What is the literary device used here?
4. Kelly wore her hair in pigtails like Britney Spears.
5. Home = where you live
6. My love to my students is like an endless ocean.
7. What literary device is being used in the following stanza? "O my Luve's like a red, red rose That's newly sprung in June; O my Luve's like the melodie That's sweetly played in tune."
8. ..... refers to the introduction of a story, where the characters and setting are introduced.
9. External Conflict is:
10. "I searched for the perfect program to peruse several small suggestions swiftly." is an example of .....
11. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
12. "I gazed-and gazed-but little thought/ What the show to me had brought:" includes an example of:
13. What type of literary device is found in the following quite: "Can't you see they smell like a broom" (14).
14. The sun smiled at the small child sitting around the flowers in the park is an example of .....
15. A metaphor is a comparison of two UNLIKE things
16. The trip to the beach was great! One flat tire, petrol shortage and water everywhere but not a drop to drink!
17. Which literary device is shown here?674 hic nux, hic mixta est rugosis carica palmis
18. When non-human thing is given human characteristics
19. The wall stared at me silently.
20. What does the term 'epistrophe' refer to?