Literary Devices

Question 1

The mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one

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malapropism

Question 2

What is a metphor?

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comparison of two objects without using like or as

Question 3

Words

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diction

Question 4

What is the most intense part of any story?

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climax

Question 5

What charcter is the main one in a story or novel?

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protagonist

Question 6

A man struggling with double personality is what type of conflict?

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Internal

Question 7

A character who changes as the story or novel progresses is what kind of character?

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round

Question 8

What type of characterization requires "no thinking"?

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direct

Question 9

In literature, when you reference other literature, history, etc. it is

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an allusion

Question 10

Contradictory words or phrases that make sense

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oxymoron

Question 11

What literary device is represented by a talking cockroach?

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personification

Question 12

Freytags Pyramid sets the structure for

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plot

Question 13

That problem is as common as a cold.

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simile

Question 14

I told you a million times not to do that.

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hyperbole

Question 15

What characterization is it when the author shows the reader what the character is like?

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indirect

Question 16

What is a word or image that represents a larger idea?

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symbol

Question 17

How words relate to each other is

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syntax

Question 18

The tension between what is said and what is meant is

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verbal irony

Question 19

An object is used to describe something it is closely related to.

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metonomy

Question 20

Jumbo shrimp represents which literary device?

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oxymoran

Question 21

What drives the plot of a story or novel?

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conflict

Question 22

An author might develop a character through the use of

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all of the answers

Question 23

What is it when the audience knows something the characters in the story do not?

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dramatic irony

Question 24

Underemphasizing the extent to which a statement might be true

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understatement

Question 25

An author might develop a character through the use of

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all of the answers

Literary Devices

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