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Literary Devices Quiz 540 (20 MCQs)

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1. An author states exactly the personality of a character
2. The art of persuasion using literary devices through speeches, media, or argumentation is called .....
3. What is MAN VS. NATURE?
4. The rain ran down the road.
5. The giving of human characteristics to something non-human such as an inanimate object or a concept.
6. Identify the literary device in the following passage: "That's the journey we're on today. But let me tell you how I came to be here. As most of you know, I'm not a native of this great state. I ..... I moved to Illinois over two decades ago. I was a young man then, just a year out of college. I knew no one in Chicago when I arrived, was without money or family connections. But a group of churches had offered me a job as a community organizer for the grand sum of 13, 000 dollars a year. And I accepted the job, sight unseen, motivated then by a single, simple, powerful idea:that I might play a small part in building a better America" (Obama 2).
7. Bird is a symbol for freedom.
8. "She was the most beautiful girl in the world" is an example of what?
9. What has words that consist of words and phrases that appeal to a reader's five senses?
10. The time period and location of a literary piece.
11. I can do a cartwheel! It's a piece of cake! What does the idiom "Piece of cake" mean?
12. Words like "the sloping porch, " "the chipping paint, " and "the rotting mold" are all examples of what?
13. Is the following a simile or not? Jesus is tall like a giraffe.
14. Is this Imagery:I saw the stars in the sky
15. Why does Poppy fall into Glitter Creek?
16. Universal patterns in all stories and mythologies regardless of culture or historical period and hypothesized that part of the human mind contained a collective unconscious shared by all members of the human species.
17. "Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get. "-Forrest Gump
18. The time or place in which a story takes place is the
19. A feeling of uncertainty about the outcome of events in a literary work.
20. This is a kind of a narrative or a description in which the characters, setting, objects, actions or events represent an idea or concept and sometimes even another real life event. This kind of a literary device operates on two levels. On the surface level we have a narrative which has all the characteristics of a narrative/description and has value as a stand alone text. At a deeper level, it is a text which uses its elements as symbols which represent other ideas-abstract or concrete-and many a times convey a moral, religious, ethical or political message and this aspect is of a greater literary value. eg. Animal Farm by George Orwell. It is often called an extended Metaphor.
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