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Literary Techniques Quiz 36 (20 MCQs)

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1. The author uses more casual language in order to address the audience
2. A type of writing that ridicules the shortcomings of people or institutions in attempt to bring about a change.
3. Mitch, a student at Zeyen School, is in Room 43.
4. A narrative technique that allows a writer to present past events during current events in order to provide background for the current narration
5. The author references a well-known quote, often from a public figure
6. What type of literary technique is used in this paragraph? We looked on, waiting patiently-there was nothing else to do till the end of the flood; but it was only after a long silence, when he said, in a hesitating voice, "I suppose you fellows remember I did once turn fresh-water sailor for a bit, " that we knew we were fated, before the ebb began to run, to hear about one of Marlow's inconclusive experiences.
7. A metaphor compares two things using "Like" or "As" .
8. Guilty feet have got no rhythm. (George Michael)
9. The teacher asked Andrea if she had seen her friends copying from each other on the English test. She didn't want to lie, but she wanted to protect her friends.This is an example of .....
10. He heard the clack on stone and the leaping, dropping clicks of a small rock falling.
11. Which technique is present in the following quote: "Some of the men here might be thinking 'Okay, all of this is interesting, but I don't think like that.' ..... [And] some people will bring up evolutionary biology and apes, how, you know, female apes bow down to male apes and that sort of thing."
12. Which literary technique is used when a writer gives human traits to something that is not human?
13. Which device is being used? "The dead animal was surrounded by flies and maggots."
14. A commercial that focuses on a product's value for a low cost is relying on
15. What is the term for a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable?
16. Facts that support the thesis or the assertion in a piece of writing.
17. What is a Metaphor most similar to?
18. 'The door slammed with a crash!' is an example of which technique?
19. Volume is.....
20. "I have a million things to do today!" is an example of:
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