This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 88 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 88 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What figurative language is present in the statement below?"The sad truth is that what I could recall in 5 seconds all too soon needed 10, then 30, then a full minute-like shadows lengthening at dusk." A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 2. What is the definition of antagonist? A) The character the reader follows throughout the text. B) The character that works against the main character. C) The character that supports the main character. D) The characters that are never fully developed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The character that works against the main character. 3. An exaggerated statement that's not meant to be taken literally by the reader. A) Foreshadowing. B) Euphemism. C) Flashback. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 4. Which of the following demonstrates a first-person point-of-view? A) Jeremy walked home from the store. B) I walked home from the store. C) None of these are correct. D) You walked home from the store. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I walked home from the store. 5. Irony (Dramatic) A) A figure of speech in which extreme exaggeration is used. B) A word or group of words whose meaning is created from usage and not the definition of the words. These are usually developed in local areas. C) The irony occurring when the implications of a situation, speech, etc. are understood by the audience but not by the characters. D) Description that appeals to at least one of the five senses:sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The irony occurring when the implications of a situation, speech, etc. are understood by the audience but not by the characters. 6. What does anaphora refer to? A) A reference to a well-known person, text, or idea. B) The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of a line. C) The repetition of the same consonant sounds. D) A narrative poem, often set to music, that tells a story. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of a line. 7. The plot goes ahead of time; meaning a scene that interrupts and takes the narrative forward in time from the current time in the stoty. A) Flash-forward. B) Flashback. C) Juxtaposition. D) Stream of Conciousness. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Flash-forward. 8. To convince a reader to believe an idea or take a course of action, the author uses ..... writing A) Expository. B) Persuasive. C) Narrative. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Persuasive. 9. What story is this from? "I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you." A) The Bet. B) The Lady or the TIger. C) The Tell Tale Heart. D) All Summer in a Day. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Bet. 10. What is the main function of the narrator in a story? A) To tell the story. B) To provide background information. C) To confuse the reader. D) To create suspense. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To tell the story. 11. The who and whom of the story is defines ..... A) Setting. B) Milieu. C) Character. D) Suspense. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Character. 12. Conversation between two or more characters in either fiction or nonfiction; and is told almost exclusively in drama is the definition of which term A) Claim. B) Diction. C) Dialogue. D) Dialect. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dialogue. 13. What is the definition of medium? A) One of the means or channels of general communication, information, or entertainment in society, as newspapers, radio, or television. B) The elements of the natural world, as mountains, trees, animals, or rivers. C) To get up after falling or being thrown down. D) A middle state or condition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) One of the means or channels of general communication, information, or entertainment in society, as newspapers, radio, or television. 14. Which literary device is a type of phrasal repetition that mirrors the syntax but changes one or two words? A) Allusion. B) Enjambment. C) Metaphor. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Parallelism. 15. The main character of a story who must overcome conflict A) Figurative Language. B) Protagonist. C) Villain. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Protagonist. 16. Make a situation seem less important than it really is. / Make a situation seem less important than it really is. A) Personification. B) Underwear. C) Conflict. D) Understatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Understatement. 17. A conflict where a person must fight against nature. A) Man vs. society. B) Man vs. man. C) Man vs. nature. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Man vs. nature. 18. What literary device best describes the sentence? A) Allusion. B) Irony. C) Metaphor. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 19. "The foxtails were as tall as skyscrapers" is an example of ..... A) Simile. B) Alliteration. C) Rhyme. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 20. Verbal irony is defined as ..... A) When something is said, but the opposite is meant; sarcasm is one example. B) The main character in the story the "good guy" . C) Hints or clues about future events in a story. D) When the reader knows something crucial that the characters do not; leads to a surprising twist. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) When something is said, but the opposite is meant; sarcasm is one example. 21. "I am so hungry I could eat a horse." is an example of which literary device? A) Allegory. B) Hyperbole. C) Idiom. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 22. "The Heart wants what it wants-or else it does not care" A) Symbolism. B) Personification. C) Juxtaposition. D) Situational Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 23. The calm lake was a mirror. A) Metaphor. B) Idiom. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 24. What is the mood of a text? A) Emotions audience feels from a given passage. B) The time and place of the story. C) The Lesson the reader learns from the story. D) The summary of events in the text. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Emotions audience feels from a given passage. 25. Identify the verb in the following sentence:The bus drove down the block. A) Bus. B) Block. C) Down. D) Drove. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Drove. 26. Has many definable character traits A) Dynamic character. B) Flat character. C) Round character. D) Static character. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Round character. 27. The technique that employs wit to ridicule a subject, usually some social institution or human foible, with the intention of inspiring reform A) Allegory. B) Paradox. C) Cliche. D) Satire. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Satire. 28. The handles on the doors are huge ..... really exaggerated to be funny! What literary device is being used? A) Allusion. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Irony. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 29. A direct representation or a comparison where one thing is another. A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 30. One who seeks to impart knowledge and understanding to someone who needs or deserves the information. Usually a wise person with a keen intellect and emotional intelligence. May serve as a moral compass or guide for other characters. A) Sage. B) Everyperson. C) Jester. D) Explorer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sage. 31. Can you guess what a hyperbole is? A) Is it the repetition of initial consonant sounds in a series of words?. B) Or is it a scene or event from the past inserted into the present?. C) Or, could it be exaggerations for emphasis or dramatic effect?. D) Maybe it's the use of words that go beyond their literal meaning?. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Or, could it be exaggerations for emphasis or dramatic effect?. 32. A whiff of the coffee aroma filled our noses. This is a good example of what literary device? A) Personification. B) Irony. C) Imagery. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 33. A narrator whose credibility has been seriously compromised. A) First person point of view. B) Stream of consciousness. C) Unreliable narrator. D) Omniscient point of view. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Unreliable narrator. 34. Identify the literary device in the following passage: "Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backward 10 years later" (Jobs 3). A) Juxtaposition. B) Alliteration. C) Idiom. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Idiom. 35. ..... is the author's use of vivid descriptions that appeals to the readers five sense (to help them visualize what is being described). A) Hyperbole. B) Setting. C) Irony. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 36. A conflict where a person fights against a law, belief, or social values set by society. A) Man vs. society. B) Man vs. man. C) Man vs. nature. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Man vs. society. 37. Fire-in The Glass Castle A) Simile. B) Motif. C) Tone. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Motif. 38. Lisa's mouth is as big as Texas. A) Not a hyperbole. B) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 39. "Stargirl was leaning forward, looking earnestly at Becca Rinaldi, her voice small as a little girl's" (64).(1 answer) A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Metaphor. E) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 40. The angle from which the story is told is the ..... A) Camera view. B) Character view. C) Point of view. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Point of view. 41. Words are used to mimic sounds A) Personification. B) Symbolism. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 42. She tried to not cry but eventually sighed and asked why.Select the correct answer A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 43. What is the best definition of allusion? A) Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling. B) An implied or indirect reference in literature to a familiar or famous person, place, or event. C) An organizational device used in literature to create expectation or to set up an explanation of later developments. D) An exaggeration or overstatement (Ex. I had to wait forever). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An implied or indirect reference in literature to a familiar or famous person, place, or event. 44. "It had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up" (3-7) A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Imagery. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 45. When the plot is presented in a non-casual order, with events presented in a random series jumping to and from the main plot with flashbacks or flashforwards or in any other manner that is either not chronological or not cause and effect. A) Point of view. B) In medias res. C) Nonlinear structure. D) Stream of consciousness. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nonlinear structure. 46. Deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration A) Tone. B) Symbol. C) Hyperbole. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 47. It beats as it sweeps as it cleans.What is the literary device used in the sentence? A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assonance. 48. A character who is not highly developed A) Flat character. B) Dynamic character. C) Static character. D) Round character. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Flat character. 49. "By his loved mansionry, that the heaven's breath smells wooingly here." This sentence is an example of ..... A) Rhetorical question. B) Pathos. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 50. Which of the following characters is most likely to be an antagonist based on their personality traits? A) A character who is kind, generous, and always helps others. B) A character who is selfish, manipulative, and lacks empathy. C) A character who is funny, outgoing, and the life of the party. D) A character who is shy, introverted, and prefers to be alone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A character who is selfish, manipulative, and lacks empathy. 51. "But have you ever imagined getting a blind date from a capsule toy?" is an example of: A) Irony. B) Allusion. C) Hyperbole. D) Rhetorical question. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhetorical question. 52. What does reportorial mean? A) Factual, dry, neutral. B) Analytical, critical, opinionated. C) Emotional, expressive, subjective. D) Fictional, imaginative, biased. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Factual, dry, neutral. 53. What is the purpose of figurative language? A) To emphasize something or make writing more interesting. B) To allow characters to talk in a narrative. C) The lesson or meaning of the story. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To emphasize something or make writing more interesting. 54. "Busy old fool, unruly sun-" A) Imagery. B) Allusion. C) Paradox. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 55. Figure of speech comparing two different things (not using "like" or "as") A) Metaphor. B) Parallelism. C) Simile. D) Idioms. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 56. "The baby was as snug as a bug in a rug." This expression is an example of which of the following? A) Tone. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assonance. 57. The old man croaked his request.This is an example of ..... A) Direct Metaphor. B) Idiom. C) Implied Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Implied Metaphor. 58. Throughout A Rose for Emily, Faulkner talks about dust and decay over and over in order to help the audience see themes and to help create a somber mood. A) Motif. B) Symbol. C) Theme. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Motif. 59. The Titanic was often called the "unsinkable ship", yet it sank on its maiden voyage. A) Verbal. B) Not Ironic. C) Situational. D) Dramatic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Situational. 60. EXAMPLE:On some summer days, the garage heats up like an oven. A) Simile. B) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. ← 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