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Literary Devices Quiz 507 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is an intentional and extreme exaggeration for emphasis or effect?
2. Person, place, or thing that represents something beyond itself, most often something concrete or tangible that represents an abstract idea
3. The ANTAGONIST may be human or non-human.
4. Faith is like a stony uphill climb:a single stumble might send you sprawling but belief and steadfastness will see you to the very top.Is an example of
5. What is 3rd person objective point of view?
6. She is my mother who fathered me.
7. "Mrs. Whatsit continued to climb, her wings straining a little. Meg felt her heart racing; cold sweat began to gather on her face, and her lips felt as though they were turning blue. She began to gasp. What is the mood of this passage?
8. Linear plot development
9. The sun was ike a yellow marble in the sky
10. When the narrator says "you' and puts the reader directly into the story; may see this in instructions, speeches
11. The phrase, "he is older than dirt, " is an example of:
12. I feel like a limp dishrag.
13. A literary work that uses concise, colorful, often rhythmic language to express ideas or emotions.
14. The repetition of a beginning sound
15. A comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it. It aims at explaining that idea or thing by comparing it to something that is familiar.
16. These are usually words or phrases in literary pieces that writers use not only for artistic purposes but for greater understanding and appreciation of a reader.
17. "I would have given anything for the power to soothe her frail soul, tormenting itself in its invincible ignorance like a small bird beating about the cruel wires of a cage." -Lord Jim, by Joseph Conrad
18. The cat says meow.
19. A comparison between two things or objects using "like" or "as"
20. In the most general sense, irony is .....
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