This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 45 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 45 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The definition of a simile is: A) Giving non-human objects human characteristics or abilities. B) When the audience knows something a character or characters do not. C) When the opposite of what you expect to happen happens. D) The direct comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind. E) A warning or hint of something to come. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The direct comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind. 2. Which literary term is showcased in the following quote:I was that Monster. A) Symbolism. B) Metaphor. C) Epiphany. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 3. What is the definition of epiphany? A) The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words or stressed syllables. B) The comparison of one thing with another thing using like or as. C) A visionary moment when a character has a sudden insight or realization that changes his or her understanding of themselves or their comprehension of the world. D) A scene in a movie or novel that is set in a time earlier than the main story. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A visionary moment when a character has a sudden insight or realization that changes his or her understanding of themselves or their comprehension of the world. 4. When an author uses humanlike characteristics to describe objects, this is called ..... A) Alliteration. B) Imagery. C) Personification. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 5. Which of the following is NOT a type of irony? A) Situational. B) Experimental. C) Verbal. D) Dramatic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Experimental. 6. The time, place, and environment A) Setting. B) Stanza. C) Hyperbole. D) Opening. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Setting. 7. A ..... character's personality does not change throughout the story. A) Flat. B) Good. C) Static. D) Round. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Static. 8. What is a literary allusion? A) Contrast between what a character says and what they mean. B) A brief references to a famous past event or person in history. Used to add context or help give meaning. C) A brief reference to the events or characters from another story. Popular, well known works such as the Bible, Shakespeare, mythology, or fairy tales. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A brief reference to the events or characters from another story. Popular, well known works such as the Bible, Shakespeare, mythology, or fairy tales. 9. Which of the following is the best definition of conflict? A) The events building up to the climax which build interest, tension, or suspense. B) A type of art, music, or literature characterized by a specific form. C) A message about life being conveyed by a story. D) The struggle between two opposing forces in a story. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The struggle between two opposing forces in a story. 10. What happens at the end of Godfather Death? A) The physician marries the princess. B) The physician kills Godfather Death. C) Godfather Death kills the physician. D) They all live happily every after. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Godfather Death kills the physician. 11. A struggle between two or more forces (ex. Man vs. Nature A) Conflict. B) Genre. C) Dialogue. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Conflict. 12. My mom has a Spartan workout routine. A) Allusion. B) Metaphor. C) Irony. D) Allegory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 13. What are the feelings of the reader called? A) Point of view. B) Mood. C) Characterization. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mood. 14. What literary device involves a discrepancy between expectation and reality? A) Simile. B) Irony. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irony. 15. Which Literary Device is in the following sentence:I could eat a million tacos all day everyday. A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 16. A simile COMPARES 2 things using the words ..... or ..... A) And, or. B) Like, as. C) And, like. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Like, as. 17. My heart pounded on my chest. A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 18. ..... is when a non-living thing is given human characteristics. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 19. When the character faces an inside opposition. A) External Conflict. B) Plot. C) Theme. D) Internal Conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Internal Conflict. 20. Conflict that exists between a person and himself or herself A) Internal. B) External. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Internal. 21. What literary device represents a thing or abstraction as having human characteristics? A) Allusion. B) Hyperbole. C) Imagery. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 22. Which POV uses "I, me, and my" to tell a story? A) 1st person. B) 3rd person omniscient. C) 2nd person. D) 3rd person objective. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1st person. 23. Thunder rolled across the sky, shaking the house as if it were made of cards. The wind howled and moaned. The children tiptoed down the stairs holding tightly to the railing. The sounds of the storm had made it impossible for them to stay upstairs. They decided they wanted to be downstairs with their parents.Which describes the mood of the passage? A) Hopeless. B) Calm. C) Alarming. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alarming. 24. Point-of-View is: A) The way a character speaks. B) The buildup to an unknown outcome in a story. C) Who is telling the story (1st person, 2nd person, 3rd person). D) Description in a story that creates a picture in the reader's mind. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Who is telling the story (1st person, 2nd person, 3rd person). 25. All the world's a stage, and all the men and women [are] players. A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 26. "The latest proposal will not stop the steady declines of the coal industry." is an example of ..... A) Flawed logic. B) Mind reading. C) Slant. D) Opinions presented as facts. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Opinions presented as facts. 27. When your parents learn about your new plan to raise money, it's going to sink like the Titanic. A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. C) Idiom. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 28. Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken" has a deeper meaning. Robert Frost is encouraging people to follow their own path. A) Mood. B) Denotation. C) Tone. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Connotation. 29. The moon smiled down on us. A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Oxymoron. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 30. The usage of words in a way to create musical effect. It can be internal rhyme or end rhyme. A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Lithotes. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme. 31. Something that stands for or represents something else (ex:heart represents love) A) Satire. B) Symbol. C) Simile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Symbol. 32. Parallelism creates a parallel position between opposite ideas through grammatical elements as a means of emphasizing contrast. / Parallelism:Create a parallel position between opposing ideas through grammatical elements as a way to emphasize contrast. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 33. Her eyes were as big as saucers. A) Metaphor. B) Exaggeration. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 34. Background information necessary in order to understand a story A) Resolution. B) Climax. C) Rising action. D) Exposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Exposition. 35. Which is the correct end mark for this sentence? What an amazing sight it must have been A) Period. B) Question mark. C) Exclamation point. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exclamation point. 36. "Maybe she's born with it, maybe it's Maybelline!" A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 37. A prediction, omen, or hint of what is to come in a story: A) Motif. B) Perspective. C) Foreshadowing. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Foreshadowing. 38. Refers to the overall feeling of a piece of writing A) Triples. B) Witty. C) Tone. D) Opinion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tone. 39. After his second visit with the witches, Macbeth decides to kill A) Lady Macbeth. B) Macduff. C) The witches. D) Banquo. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Macduff. 40. The central idea, topic, or point of a story, which could be a life lesson or the author's overall message to the reader A) Summary. B) Cliche'. C) Generalization. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Theme. 41. An extravagant exaggeration used as a figure of speech A) Alliteration. B) Hyperbole. C) Conflict. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 42. Which of the following is NOT an example of man vs. nature? A) Encountering a human in the wild. B) Survival. C) A natural disaster. D) A wild animal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Encountering a human in the wild. 43. "Montag slid down the pole like a man in a dream." A) Simile. B) Irony. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 44. What is the term for a piece of writing that deliberately mimics another work in order to critique it? A) Parody. B) Personification. C) Satire. D) Rhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parody. 45. What's a message? A) Something that is made or created. B) Meaning or Idea. C) To express an idea in written or spoken form. D) Clearly and exactly stated. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Meaning or Idea. 46. True or False:A prediction at the beginning of a work is considered foreshadowing, even if the prediction does NOT come true. A) Neither true nor false if you never read to find out. B) False!. C) It could be either. D) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False!. 47. The sequence of events that ties the beginning of a story to the end. A) Plot. B) Theme. C) Setting. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plot. 48. Don't count your chickens before they're hatched. A) Analogy. B) Apostrophe. C) Antithesis. D) Aphorism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Aphorism. 49. Which is an example of second person point of view? A) He went to the store to buy milk so she could make brownies. B) First, gather your ingredients. Then add 1 cup of sugar to the batter. C) I made a sandwich. We went to the store to buy some milk. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) First, gather your ingredients. Then add 1 cup of sugar to the batter. 50. A series of events that builds from the conflict. It begins with the inciting incident and ends with the climax. A) Falling Action. B) Rising Action. C) Conflict. D) Resolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rising Action. 51. Opportunity was knocking at her door. A) Personification. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Pun. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 52. A story written in 1st person about a specific memory or several related memories. A) Autobiography. B) Biography. C) Memoir. D) Historical Fiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Memoir. 53. Omnipotent, first person, second person, and third person are all examples of ..... A) Characterization. B) Protagonist. C) Antagonist. D) Point of view. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Point of view. 54. The main message of a text. A) Concept. B) Setting. C) Theme. D) Characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theme. 55. The pop and bang of the fireworks sounded overhead. A) Symbolism. B) Assonance. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 56. Words like digust and terror in "The Little Frog" are examples of A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 57. "He is running faster than the wind" A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 58. What type of noun names a specific person, place, or thing? A) Common noun. B) They tend. C) Noun. D) Proper noun. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Proper noun. 59. "My lips, two blushing pilgrims" is an example of ..... A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Idiom. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 60. When the same consonant letter or sound is at the beginning of several closely connected words A) Alliteration. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesIntroductions QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesLiterary Devices Quiz 1Literary Devices Quiz 2Literary Devices Quiz 3Literary Devices Quiz 4Literary Devices Quiz 5Literary Devices Quiz 6Literary Devices Quiz 7Literary Devices Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books