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Literary And Poetic Devices I
Test Description: Literary and poetic devices
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) What is a simile?
A
saying less than what is meant for effect
B
a comparison of two unlike things using like or as
C
a comparison of two unlike things saying one thing
D
a regularly-repeated phrase or verse of a poem or song
2) What is imagery?
A
a musical quality produced by a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
B
a person, place, or thing that stands for something else
C
language that appeals to the five senses to paint a vivid picture in one's mind
D
an extreme exaggeration
3) What is satire?
A
the repetition of sounds at determined, regular intervals
B
writing that makes fun of human mistakes
C
the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
D
a phrase that is designed to be difficult to say
4) What is irony?
A
the use of sensory words to create images in the reader's mind
B
the contrast between what happens, and what one expects to happen
C
a play on words, often using homophones, that creates a corny joke
D
a relationship shared by two word pairs
5) What is flashback?
A
a break in the current action in a story to explain something that happened in the past
B
a hint about what will happen later in a story
C
what happens is unexpected by everyone
D
a person says one thing, but really means another
6) What is a metaphor?
A
it gives a hint about something that will happen later in a story
B
a comparison between two unlike things, saying that one thing is the other
C
a comparison between to unlike things, using like or as
D
the story's main idea or lesson
7) What is personification?
A
giving human traits to something that isn't human
B
a musical quality produced by a series of stressed and unstressed syllables
C
a word that has an opposite meaning from another
D
a word that has a similar meaning to another word
8) What is foreshadowing?
A
the types of internal and external conflict
B
the most exciting part of the story
C
a hint about what will happen later in a story
D
tells what happened before in a story
9) What is an onomatopoeia?
A
a word whose sound suggests its meaning
B
the first stage of plot
C
one of the external conflicts
D
the narrator is a character in the story
10) What is an allusion?
A
the repetition of consonant sounds
B
a reference to a person or event, which the reader is expected to understand
C
a magic trick that fools the reader
D
the repetition of vowel sounds
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