"The wind wrapped its cold fingers around the gate and held it shut." Which device is this?

In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo says of Juliet at her window, "It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!" Which device is that?

"By the third mile, the backpack weighed a thousand pounds." Which device is this?

"After the fire took the whole barn, Dad said we had had a bit of bad luck." Which device is this?

"The kettle hissed, the floorboards creaked, and the screen door banged shut." Which device is this?

"The wind whipped the wet flags on the west wall." Which device is this?

"The old man rowed slowly over the open water toward home." Which device is this?

"He is as stubborn as a fencepost set in wet cement." Which device is this?

"The locker room filled with a deafening silence after the final whistle." Which device is this?

"The only rule at the club is that there are no rules." Which device is this?

Stepping out into the downpour with no umbrella, she said, "Perfect weather for a walk." Which device is this?

"The letter said his position had been eliminated, not that he had been fired." Which device is the phrase "position had been eliminated"?

"Don't worry about the exam. My brother says it's a piece of cake." What is the phrase "a piece of cake"?

"Smoke from the wet leaves stung our eyes and left a sweet, burnt smell over the whole yard." Which device is this?

"The banquet hall glittered with candlelight; outside the window, a boy searched the alley for scraps." Which device is this?

"The new kid was a real Romeo, sighing over someone different every week." Which device is this?

A novelist gives a character a broken pocket watch that comes to stand for the years he lost in prison. What is the watch?

The phrase "the light on the water" returns at the close of six different chapters of a novel. What is a recurring element like this called?

An author has a character notice a hairline crack in the dam in chapter two. The dam fails in chapter eleven. What is the early detail?

In the middle of a trial scene, a novel breaks off to show the defendant at age nine, then returns to the courtroom. What is that interruption?

A playwright lets the audience watch a killer hide in the closet, then has a character walk in and say the house is empty. What has the playwright created?

A writer ends a story with a fire station burning down while its crew is away running a fire-safety fair. What has the writer created?

Two writers describe the same man. One calls him thrifty; the other calls him stingy. What are they using differently?

To speed up a chase scene, a writer replaces one long sentence with three short ones: "He stopped. Nothing moved. Then the door opened." What has the writer changed?

Revising a draft, a writer changes "walked quickly" to "strode" and "said" to "snapped" throughout. What is she working on?

A reviewer writes that the author's attitude toward his own hometown comes through as bitter and impatient. Which element is the reviewer describing?

A story opens with fog over a flooded road, a dead streetlight and no other cars, and the reader begins to feel uneasy. Which element is that feeling?

In Macbeth, a famous speech includes the line "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow". Which device does that line use?

Which sentence uses the term "theme" correctly?

Which sentence uses the term "protagonist" correctly?

Which sentence uses the term "mood" correctly?

Which sentence uses the term "foreshadowing" correctly?

Which sentence uses the term "symbol" correctly?

Which sentence uses the term "verbal irony" correctly?

Which sentence uses the term "third-person limited" correctly?

Which sentence uses the term "external conflict" correctly?

Which sentence uses the term "allusion" correctly?

Which sentence uses the term "extended metaphor" correctly?

Three of these name a sound device. Which one does not?

Three of these name a stage of plot. Which one does not?

Three of these name a kind of irony. Which one does not?

Three of these name a point of view a story can be told from. Which one does not?

Three of these name a kind of character. Which one does not?

Three of these name a form a poem can take. Which one does not?

Every chapter of a novel takes place inside one hospital over four days in August 1952. Which element of the story is that?

A quiet, careful nurse works beside a reckless, joking surgeon, and the contrast makes both of them easier to see. What is the surgeon to the nurse?

The whole struggle of a novel is a farmer trying to hold on to his land through a drought year. Which element of the story is that?

By the last page, the reader is meant to carry away the idea that loyalty can cost more than it gives. Which element of the story is that?

A narrator says "I" and reports only what he himself sees from the back row of the courtroom. Which element of the story is that?

The first two pages tell the reader who the family is, where they live and what the father does for work, before anything happens. Which part of the plot is that?