Literary Devices Quiz 486 (20 MCQs)

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1. What type of irony happens when an expected outcome is reversed?
2. It rained on a couple's wedding day.
3. What is being used here?:I turned into the living room and heard the click-clack of her knitting needles.
4. What literary device is illustrated in this statement?"I feel so sleepy, I can sleep for a thousand years"
5. The popcorn popped in the microwave is an example of .....
6. Peter paid for the pretty poster.
7. A contrast between appearance and reality; usually when something is the opposite of what is expected.
8. Eye glasses can symbolize .....
9. The emotional atmosphere a writer creates in his/her work
10. How can we define the TONE of a story?
11. When an author uses foreshadowing, it is to .....
12. An epic hero travels over a vast setting, offering his services as a warrior to other communities and societies.
13. How the the components of the story are organized.
14. When the plot or another character hint at what is to come later on in the story
15. Read the sentence and choose the onomatopoeia.I love the swish of the basketball net.
16. Definition-a symbolic image or idea that appears frequently in a story. These can be symbols, sounds, actions, ideas, or words. They strengthen a story by adding images and ideas to the theme present throughout the narrative. Example-Throughout a story, there is surprisingly bad weather-snow, freezing rain, and even a tornado. These weather conditions further emphasize the larger theme of nature's power over humans.
17. Which literary device is most clearly used in this line from "The Prince and the She-Devils" ?"The buildings have ceilings decorated with stars, and gorgeous rich couches surrounded by silk curtains of many colors."
18. "I pulled the go-cart through the saw-tooth fern, down into the green dimness where the palmetto fronds whispered by the stream."
19. A part of something to refer to the whole
20. I am broken hearted.