Literary Devices Quiz 57 (20 MCQs)

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1. This type of irony is used when the reader knows something that a character does not.
2. This class is a million years long!
3. The character in any story, novel, or movie that goes against the main character; the "bad guy"
4. The dying plant placed by the windowsill in A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
5. In the phrase 'The whispering winds told tales of a coming tempest', which literary device is being used?
6. Which is not one of the 5 senses?
7. Bat and cat are at the track is an example of .....
8. A figure of speech in which words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words. It may also be a situation that ends up in quite a different way than what is generally anticipated. It is a difference between appearance and reality. This is known as
9. "Across the pond a bullfrog spoke a deep note of warning."
10. What is the best definition of figurative language?
11. Which is an visual imagery
12. Identify the literary device in the sentence 'The world is a stage.'
13. I have a red car. My car was in a wreck. Therefore, all red cars get wrecked.
14. Emotion, that affects literature.
15. If the author directly tells you what the character is like, that is:
16. What is a whiplash ending?
17. Each time a person speaks, we call this .....
18. What is the arrangement of rhyme at the end of a line of poetry?
19. This type of imagery is use address to our taste buds. This way the writer is capable of making us taste the food he or she is describing in the story.
20. When an author tells the audience what the personality of the character is