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Literary Devices Quiz 55 (20 MCQs)

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1. "His heart is as black as the night" What literary device can you spot here?
2. Why is satire used?
3. The opposite is meant of what someone said.
4. When words stimulate one or more of the five senses
5. A repeated element that has symbolic significance through repetition. It can help produce theme or mood (example-references to light and darkness in Romeo and Juliet)
6. Nine ninjas kneaded dough to bake nut-bread.
7. Using part of something to refer to the whole thing is the definition of which term?
8. A question asked merely for rhetorical effect and not requiring an answer
9. Choose the word with the positive connotation. chuckle ..... snicker
10. The character who opposes the main character, hero, or heroine of a literary work.
11. He has been walking for days and days, when he has only been walking for 5 minutes is an example of:
12. There was a deafening silence in the crowd.
13. Charlie was a pig at the dinner table
14. "Charlie gazed hopelessly at the endless pile of bills stretching across the counter." Which type of figurative language?
15. A device where the speaker talks directly to an absent person, living or dead, or even a nonexistent person or thing as if it was capable of understanding.
16. Comparison of two things essentially different but with some commonalities; does not use "like" or "as"
17. The use of humor to criticize or make fun of something serious, such as government or movies
18. Occurs when the readers/audience knows something that some characters in a story/play do not.
19. A statement that is contradicting or opposed to common sense but could be true.
20. The trees touched the sky. This statement is using what form of literary language?
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