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Literary Devices and Techniques Quiz

Authored by Robinetta Evans

English

9th - 12th Grade

CCSS covered

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Literary Devices and Techniques Quiz
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

The choice to use a word or phrase in writing or a speech is known as:

Syntax

Diction

Grammar

Punctuation

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

The general feeling or atmosphere that a piece of writing creates within the reader is known as:

Tone

Mood

Theme

Plot

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. Example: William wails in wake of woe.

Metaphor

Alliteration

Onomatopoeia

Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

The narrator's position in relation to a story being told. (List person "I", 2nd person "you", 3rd person "they". Name Proper Noun)

1st person

2nd person

3rd person

Proper Noun

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

When giving something that is not human, human characteristics, such as 'The daisy danced to the sun', this is known as what?

Metaphor

Simile

Personification

Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

The author's attitude in a given text.

Objective

Subjective

Indifferent

Critical

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

The sequence of events in which each event affects the next one through the principle of cause-and-effect is known as?

Chronology

Causality

Synchronicity

Continuity

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

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