Literary Devices Quiz 58 (20 MCQs)

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1. Mrs. Nacarlo, Candlewood Middle School, West Hollow Middle School, and New York are all examples of:
2. Repetition of a particular sound in the first syllables of a series of words or phrases
3. Which of the following is NOT a pun?
4. Feelings or meanings conveyed in the poem
5. Occurs when a speaker speaks something contradictory to what he/she intends to say
6. 2 lines in a row rhyme
7. And she said hello to meand she said I do not see is an example of .....
8. The metaphor is a comparison.
9. A plot device in which an abrupt ending occurs .....
10. "Love is a fruit in season at all times and in reach of every hand."
11. What question do we need to ask ourselves to determine the mood of a story?
12. My backpack weighs 1000 pounds!
13. Your friend falls. You laugh at him. Then you fall.
14. Enjambment breaks line in poems with (a)
15. Description or narration to distill complex ideas into a simple, accessible story.
16. Will you please stop talking
17. Clues an author provides about events that may occur later in the story
18. When a character exhibits an abundance of pride. This pride often results in the character's downfall.
19. Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not. The same particle does not rise from the valley to the ridge. This entire page is an example of
20. A brief reference to a person, event, or place in history, or to a work of art/ literature