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Literary Devices Quiz 502 (20 MCQs)

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1. A rhetorical device in which two seemingly contradictory words are used together for effect (i.e. poor, little, rich girl; jumbo shrimp)
2. The sun glows brightly in the sky. What literary device is used here?
3. A Protagonist is a ..... ?
4. A Dog, to whom the butcher had thrown a bone, was hurrying home with his prize as fast as he could go. As he crossed a narrow bridge, he looked down and saw his reflection in the quiet water as if in a mirror. But the greedy Dog thought he saw a real Dog carrying a bone much bigger than his own. If he had stopped to think he would have known better. But instead of thinking, he dropped his bone and sprang at the Dog in the river, only to find himself swimming for dear life to reach the shore. At last he managed to scramble out, and as he stood sadly thinking about the good bone he had lost, he realized what a foolish Dog he had been. What is the theme?
5. The practice of giving human traits to nonhumans in writing. "The fire danced" is an example.
6. Which stage of the plot progression follows the climax?
7. What is a possible theme of this poem?
8. Read the following poem, "A Birthday" by Christina Rossetti and answer the question below. My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is a weathered shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit; My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon [peaceful] sea; My heart is gladder than all these Because my love is come to me. QUESTION:What mood do the details of the poem convey?
9. When reality is different from appearance; the implied meaning of a statement is the opposite of its literal or obvious meaning
10. The verbal expression of sensory experience; descriptive or figurative language used to create world pictures; is created by details that appeal to one or more of the five senses.
11. What is the purpose of hyperbole in literature?
12. The contrast between what the character thinks to be true and what we (the reader) know to be true .....
13. This is a figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else.
14. I've asked you a million times to clean your room!
15. The door opened and closed by itself and had a brain of its' own.
16. Darth Vader is an ..... of a villain in Star Wars. (He is the most common example of)
17. The physical and social context in which the action of a story occurs. The major elements are the time, the place, and the social environment that frames the characters.
18. Narrator exists outside the events of the story, and relates the actions of the characters by referring to their names or by the third-person pronouns he, she, or they.
19. The example highlighted below is an example of? The leaves danced in the wind.
20. "Cuz it's cool when ya cause a cozy conditionin'. Which we create, cuz that's our mission"
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