Literary Devices Quiz 487 (20 MCQs)

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1. What literary device does the Rodgers and Hammerstein song "Do I love you because you're beautiful? Or are you beautiful because I love you?" illustrate?
2. What does the word "Ideas" mean?
3. Hints or clues in a story that suggest what action is to come are referred to as this .....
4. What literary device is being used in the sentence 'The sky is a canvas painted with clouds'?
5. What is the name of the following literary device? "Her lovely voice is music to my ears."
6. The train slowed to a crawl.
7. When the narrator is all knowing .....
8. "He was following his brother around like a lost puppy"
9. "This town is colder now, I think it's sick of us." -OneRepublic What is this an example of?
10. Christina rubbed her lucky rabbit's foot before the big test.
11. What uses symbols to signify ideas and qualities, by giving them meanings that are different from their literal sense.
12. She is a cheetah on the race track.
13. Something happens that contradicts what the audience or reader expects.
14. A comparison between two unlike things using words such as like, as, resembles or than
15. Which matches the definition of tone?
16. A vaccine is a preparation of killed or weakened germs that is injected under the skin and causes the blood to produce antibodies against the disease. Effective vaccines, for instance, have been developed for small pox, rabies, and polio. What is the tone of the passage?
17. The feeling or attitude the reader receives from the characters.
18. What is the following an example of ..... "Make me your radio, turn me up when you feel low ..... "
19. When the writer establishes similar patterns of grammatical structure and length
20. A description of an object or action that is not literal.