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What type of character does not undergo inner changes?
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Static
Flat
Dynamic
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What is a "flat character"?
A character who foreshadows what will happen later.
A character who undergoes change throughout the story.
A character that does not change/little emotional depth.
A character who mirrors the protagonist in the story.
3
What literary device describes how a character looks?
Auditory Imagery
Allusion
Direct Characterization
Indirect Characterization
4
Identify the lit device: "an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience."
Hyperbole
Theme
Tone
Motif
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What type of imagery describes how something smells?
Gustatory
Olfactory
Auditory
Visual
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Name the device: when a writer gives a hint of what is to come later in a story.
Imagery
Foreshadowing
Onomatopoeia
Allusion
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What kind of irony is it if the audience knows the killer upstairs, but the character doesn't?
Onomatopoeia
Verbal
Situational
Dramatic
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What is a 'dynamic character'?
changes throughout the story/faces trials and develops
only in the narrative for a short (but pivotal) period
does not change too much from beginning to end
represents objects, actions and ideas
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What device is an author using if s/he shows what a character is like through his/her actions?
Dynamic Character
Indirect Characterization
Direct Characterization
Foil Character
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Name the device: "She did not realize that opportunity was knocking at her door."
Mood
Personification
Metaphor
Setting
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What is an "allusion"?
an advanced hint of what is to come later in the story
style of speaking or writing determined by choice of words
abstract ideas or principles
brief and indirect reference
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What is 'theme'?
the use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities
a set of rules in a language.
a figure of speech that makes a comparison
an idea that a writer repeats in his work
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What is 'mood'?
When the author (seeks to create) emotions in the reader.
When the reader creates emotions for the author.
When the reader falls in love with a character.
When the author is super emotional.
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What point of view does an author use to show the reader what a character is thinking?
First person
Third person limited
Second person
Third person omniscient
15
Identify the literary device: when two or more words repeat the same vowel sound
Repetition
Alliteration
Consonance
Assonance
16
Which example is a simile?
He has a heart of stone
You are so like your dog.
She was like, totally upset.
You are as beautiful as a sunflower.
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Why would an author ever use onomatopoeia?
to enhance the rhyme
To make a description more expressive and interesting.
To hide a comparison between two things.
to show the angle of considered things.
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A description of the sensory aspects of a scene (how it looks, sounds, feels, smells, etc.) is:
Imagery
Theme
Juxtaposition
Irony
19
Which of the following is a metaphor?
cool as a cucumber
sea-like grief
all the world's a stage
the curtain of night"
20
Name the literary device featured in the meme!
Metaphor.
Alliteration.
Visual Imagery
Mood
21
What kind of irony is it if a shark hunter is eaten by a shark?
Verbal
Punny
Dramatic
Situational
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What type of imagery is it when an author describes how something TASTES?
Visual
Gustatory
Tactile
Olfactory
23
Name the literary device: "In a
summer season when soft
was the
sun..."
Hyperbole
Alliteration
Irony
Metaphor
24
If an author makes a reference to a historical moment, what literary device is he/she using?
Simile
Allusion
Alliteration
Metaphor
