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Literary Devices Quiz
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Test your knowledge on literary devices such as allusion and argument with these engaging questions.
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A perspective (or point of view) is...
Someone walking slowly down the street
Someone looking out a window
Someone's view/thoughts about one event
Someone's action they take in an event
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Which of these is a sentence fragment?
A snake can be a pet.
Sam has a pet fish.
A cat can climb a tree.
The dog with the spotted tail.
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Perspective or point of view
Exaggeration
How you see it.
The facts or evidence.
Giving human qualities to a non-human.
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Which of these sentences contains an allusion?
Defeat stalked the home team.
The football game seemed to pit David against Goliath.
The home team was as uncoordinated as a newborn giraffe.
The challengers were as fierce as lions.
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What is situational irony?
A character says the opposite of what he/she means.
Reader knowsthe opposite of what the character believes.
It's a funny situation.
The opposite of what is expected happens.
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An example of situational irony is...?
A character says one thing but means another
A fire station burns down
A pilot with a fear of heights
Readers know more than characters
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Which of the following is a rhetorical question?
Who knows?
When are you leaving?
Do you know which room my exam is in?
What is 5+5?
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Identify the following examples of irony as situational, dramatic, or verbal…
situational
dramatic
Sucky
verbal
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Dramatic irony occurs in the play when...
when the audience knows something that the characters do not
whenever Shakespeare stages a fight
when the friar believes he can unite the feuding famiies
when Lord Capulet tell Juliet to marry Paris
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A counterclaim is
evidence
a type of irony
the opposite of a claim
irrelephant
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Common reactions to suspense are...
cheer
laughter
knots in your stomach
anxiety
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Bias means...
assert that something is the case, without providing evidence
cause (someone) to believe something
an argument or set of reasons put forward to oppose an idea or theory
unfairly prejudiced for or against someone or something
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What is dramatic irony?
author's choice of words
something other that what is expected happens
audiences know things that character do not
saying other that what is meant
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When the main character comes face to face with a conflict. The turning point of the story.
FALLING ACTION
CLIMAX
CLIMB
SETTING
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A suspenseful story about a puzzling event, or crime that isn't solved until the end.
Poetry
Biography
Mystery
Science Fiction
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What is a universal theme?
Only stories with universal themes are considered literature
Themes that a wide range of readers can relate to.
Are used in essays to think the same way about an issue.
Themes that a small group of readers can relate to.
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This is where the story begins to develop its conflict. Suspense builds here.
Falling Action
Resolution
Climax
Rising Action
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What is a counterclaim?
A statement that explains what the opposition thinks
A statement that confirms your claim
A statement that introduces a body paragraph
A statement that asks a question
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This is where the story begins to develop its conflict. Suspense builds here.
Resolution
Climax
Rising Action
Falling Action
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What is Central idea?
A conclusion or opinion that is reached because of known facts or evidence.
most important idea of the passage
examples, facts, evidence, or other ideas
message or lesson of the stoy
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True or False- The definition of rhetoric is the art of public speaking and music
False
True
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Conflict means that there is a ...
concern
doubt
fear
problem
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Which sentence demonstrates parallel structure?
Kenna interviewed Kristen, Tristen, and her best friend Christen.
Dakota wrote stories, edited photos, and designed layouts.
Nathan asks for an extension.
Bella took pictures and puts them on her yearbook spread.
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A universal theme ...
is a broad statement about life.
appear again and again across time periods and cultures.
focuses on one particular culture or time period.
are usually found in non-fiction articles.
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What is the definition of
allusion
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When some kind of reference is made to a person, place, etc
A comparison between two things that does NOT use like or as
A group of lines in a poem.
When several words have the same beginning letters or sounds
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A sentence fragment is an incomplete sentence.
2. False
1. True
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What is an argument?
Reasons and evidence that are used to prove a point.
A claim or position supported by reasons and evidence.
A writer's position on a problem or an issue.
The opposing point of view.
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A
Claim
in an argument:
Is the quotations that you use
Is the statement you are arguing
Is the conclusion paragraph
Is the evidence you use
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Finish the definition of RHETORIC: "The art of _______________ speaking or writing..."
excited
persuasive
professional
comical
30
Which is a sentence fragment?
Two or three miles down the highway at the traffic light.
The blue truck backed into the fence.
She found the game on the top shelf of the closet.
This is the agreement that Gary explained to me.
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Which is the example of a parallel structure?
A government of the people, by the people, for the people.
The sun sank slowly
Tic toc tic toc
On the table.Over there.
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Verbal irony is also known as...
sarcasm
hyperbole
symbolism
stage directions
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What is verbal irony?
main idea or message
something other than what is expected happens
audiences know things the characters do not
saying other than what is meant (sarcasm)
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Which is an example of dramatic irony
We know Patrick is the murderer
Mary is the perfect wife
A police officer is killed
We know the cops ate the murder weapon
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What is the definition of a claim in an argument?
A fact that cannot be debated
A summary of the entire argument
A question that sparks discussion
A statement the writer is trying to prove is true
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Parallel structure is...
The repetition of grammatical form within a sentence.
Descriptive words to create imagery
The difference of grammatical form within a sentence.
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Often times suspense writers will include a _____________ in their story.
love story
surprise ending
main character
plot
