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Literary Devices

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A #languagearts quiz! to introduce #literarydevices and get people #moving. (I have posters with literary devices on my side wall).

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1
An obvious comparison between two unlike things; it is generally easy to spot.
Simile
Smile
Smithy
Soup
2
The environment in which a story takes place is called?
Story line
Suspense
Setting
Sandwich
3
Onomatopoeia refers to . .
words that are significant and important.
words that sound like what they mean.
words that grab our attention and are exciting.
words that are clever and rhyming.
4
Dialogue is . . .
Actual pain that makes the reader wince.
Actual conversation that creates intimacy in a story.
Actual humor that adds joy to the story.
Actual cruelty that makes the reader sad.
5
Satire . . .
gives everybody a free pass to act however they want.
makes people feel really great about themselves.
makes fun of everybody for the sake of tearing them down.
ridicules humanity's faults for the betterment of society.
6
Apostrophe is . . .
Speaking to someone absent or non-human.
Speaking to a frog.
A part of a sentence that shows ownership.
A cool thing in a sentence.
7
Conflict provides . . .
the main characters' back story.
the pattern of the story's dialogue.
the sequencing of events.
the tension and drama stories are built on.
8
Overstatement or exaggeration used for humor or emphasis is . . .
Hyperbole
Hyperglycemic
Hypertension
Hyperactive
9
__________ may seem to contradict itself but actually makes sense.
Personification
Point of View
Patience
Paradox
10
A symbol is an image or object . . .
that also stands for something larger than itself.
that also means to do something better.
that was worshiped during medieval times.
that should be omitted from a sentence.