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Literary Techniques Quiz 21 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is a literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story?
2. We admired the sixth spectacular sunset this week.
3. Which literary technique does Theodore Roethke use in these lines?The hand that held my wrist Was battered on one knuckle; At every step you missedMy right ear scraped a buckle.
4. Storm clouds began to busily accumulate. It was time to fight
5. Not meant to be answered; used merely for effect.
6. Six silver swans swam across the lake.
7. The sudden understanding of the larger meaning of something; it's a sudden realization and a "Ah ha!" moment for a character
8. It is important to consider if a source of information is trustworthy; therefore we analyze
9. Which literary technique is language that appeals to specific senses (i.e., sight, sound, touch, smell, or taste), creating a concrete sensory experience in the reader's imagination?
10. "Don't miss, don't miss, DON'T miss, " is all I could hear in my head. Well, that, and the 10, 000 fans around me. Standing at the foul line, I couldn't help but think back to the championship game last year. The feeling of missing the game winning foul shots will stay with me forever. That was motivation though for me to get better in the off-season.
11. A figure of speech in which 'like' or 'as' is used to make a comparison between two basically dissimilar ideas. Example:Thank you for remembering my birthday you are as sweet as a candy.
12. Attributing human characteristics to nonhuman things or abstractions is .....
13. When someone knowingly exaggerates or says one thing and means another
14. What imagery type is presented by this excerpt:In the end, the Rivas sisters would outdo them. Boxes of meringues, bonbons, ladyfingers, and cinnamon buns that only the Swiss bakers in Manila could make were perhaps coming on the boat with them. I imagined a table glimmering with long-stemmed punch glasses; enthroned in that array would be a huge brick-red bowl of gleaming china with golden flowers around the brim.
15. What is the following an example of?:"If we want to fix our economy, we need jobs, jobs, jobs!"
16. The chair screamed when the kids jumped on it.
17. "The sun was like a large ball of button" is an example of what literary technique?
18. What literary technique involves the repetition of the same vowel sound in nearby words?
19. A phrase whose figurative meaning is different from the literal; words have different meanings
20. The references made to James Madison, when California joins the U.S.A. and to Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, etc. are examples of
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