Grade 9 Literary Devices Reveiw

Question 1

Symbolism is when_____are in a literary work to stand for or suggest something else.

Accepted Answer

Person, Animal, Object, Idea

Question 2

What is an Anecdote?

Accepted Answer

A short and interesting story

Question 3

"He is as quiet as a Tiger" is an example of?

Accepted Answer

Simile

Question 4

What Literary device is this?

Accepted Answer

Autobiography

Question 5

"My life is a box of chocolates" is an example of?

Accepted Answer

Metaphor

Question 6

What is this picture foreshadowing?

Accepted Answer

That the girl will regret not buying insurance from the boy.

Question 7

What is an Oxymoron?

Accepted Answer

The use of two contradiic

Question 8

What is the comic presenting?

Accepted Answer

Irony

Question 9

What is Theme

Accepted Answer

The main idea or message that the author is trying to convey

Question 10

What is an analogy?

Accepted Answer

A thing compared to another thing that is quite different

Question 11

Is this fiction or non-fiction?

Accepted Answer

Fiction

Question 12

What is the definition of Imagery?

Accepted Answer

Creating a mental image using figurative language.

Question 13

What are synonym-like words?

Accepted Answer

beautiful, attractive, pretty

Question 14

What is a Prologue?

Accepted Answer

An opening of a story that establishes the setting.

Question 15

What is not a Juxtaposition?

Accepted Answer

Comparing two sentences from a quote, book, etc.

Question 16

What is an Anaphora?

Accepted Answer

The deliberate repetition of the first part of a sentence

Question 17

"Steve Jobs made a little bit of money with Apple" is an example of?

Accepted Answer

Understatement

Question 18

What is a Denotation?

Accepted Answer

Literal meaning and/or opposite of connotation

Question 19

What is an Assonance?

Accepted Answer

A resemblance of sound which is also called vowel rhyme

Question 20

What is Tone?

Accepted Answer

The author's attitude toward the subject, The author's attitude toward the story

Question 21

what is an Allusion?

Accepted Answer

A figure of speech that makes reference to a place or person

Question 22

What is an Onomatopoeia?

Accepted Answer

The formation of a word whose sounds imitate the noise.

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