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Literary Devices Quiz 524 (20 MCQs)

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1. A person, place, object, or activity that stands for something beyond itself is a .....
2. The general feeling created for the reader or audience by the work at a given point:atmosphere.
3. It is a literary device used when a nonhuman thing is given human characteristics.
4. A certain feeling or "vibe" readers get from words and descriptions:
5. The development of a character in a text by showing the reader their actions.
6. It is a feeling the poet/writer is trying to convey.
7. Writer uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation.
8. I am as quick as a fox.
9. The authors choice of words ..... defines which term
10. Boom! Clap!The sound of my heart
11. What literary device does the phrase "On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before" , contains?
12. The emotional associations of words
13. The author tells the story, using the third person, but is limited to reporting what the characters say or do; the author does not interpret their behavior or tell us their private thoughts or feelings.
14. Which of the options below defines the term hyperbole?
15. A struggle between a character and an outside force, such as another character, society, fate, or force of nature
16. Which is NOT an example of descriptive writing?
17. Hinting at future events in a story
18. This type of irony is where the audience knows more than the characters. We know more than the characters do with creates humor or suspense.
19. A made-up story that is based on a real time and place in history, so fact is mixed with fiction.
20. Identify the literary device in the following passage: "Only last week did we develop penicillin and television and nuclear power, and now if America's new spacecraft succeeds in reaching Venus, we will have literally reached the stars before midnight tonight" (Kennedy 2). HINT:Penicillin and television were discovered in the late 1920s and nuclear power was discovered in the 1930s. This speech was written in 1962.
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