This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 104 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 104 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Diction is A) Reading aloud. B) Taking notes. C) Word choice. D) How you speak. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Word choice. 2. Something that repeats over and over A) Repetition. B) Hyperbole. C) Cliche. D) Characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 3. "Metal ground against metal; a lurching shudder shook the floor beneath him. He fell down at the sudden movement and shuffled backward on his hands and feet, drops of sweat beading on his forehead despite the cool air. His back struck a hard metal wall" A) Setting. B) Imagery. C) Characterization. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 4. EXAMPLE:A tree might represent growth and life, while a desert represent emptiness or isolation. A) Metaphor. B) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Symbolism. 5. What literary device is being used to describe the painting with the vivid reds and mellow greens and the feeling of the salt air on your skin? A) Theme. B) Setting. C) Plot. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 6. Writing Starting, end Lyrical sounds Effervescent vowels go up Writing starting, end. A) Simile. B) Alliteration. C) Refrain. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Refrain. 7. ..... is the repetition of beginning consonant sounds. A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Alligator. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 8. When an author indirectly hints at-through things such as dialogue, description, or characters' actions-what's to come later on in the story. A) Metaphor. B) Foreshadowing. C) Colloquialism. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foreshadowing. 9. This is an example of which literary device? You try to scream but terror takes the sound before you make itYou start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes A) Metaphor. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 10. All events after the climax and leading to the resolution: A) Exposition. B) Resolution. C) Rising Action. D) Falling Action. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Falling Action. 11. What is the meaning of the following simile? "as hungry as a bear recently awakened from hibernation" A) Someone is really hungry. B) Someone is slightly sleepy. C) Someone is extremely sleepy. D) Someone is slightly hungry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Someone is really hungry. 12. The thoughts, beliefs, or feelings of the characters are revealed through his/her own actions, words, physical description, thoughts or even other character's opinions of him/her. A) Direct Characterization. B) Indirect Characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Indirect Characterization. 13. Using something to represent something else A) Foil. B) Irony. C) Symbolism. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbolism. 14. "It takes a million years graduate from school" is an example of: A) Hyperbole. B) Exaggeration. C) Overstatement. D) Mistake. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 15. This is a literary technique used in novels, plays and movies and even poems to place two ideas, characters, places or actions side by side so that the qualities of the proposed idea, protagonist, setting or action are placed in favor of the reader/audience. It is a common technique used by writers to persuade their audiences to agree with their perspectives by allowing them to compare and contrast. A) Parallelism. B) Juxtaposition. C) Metaphor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Juxtaposition. 16. Writers use similes and metaphors to ..... A) Contrast. B) Exaggerate. C) Compare. D) Argue. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Compare. 17. Find the simple predicate in the following sentence:The wacky platypus wanted more Cracker Jacks. A) Wacky. B) Platypus. C) Wanted. D) Jacks. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wanted. 18. All of the events after the climax. The tensionof the story comes down. A) Conflict. B) Falling action. C) Rising action. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Falling action. 19. This character is central to the story. The plot revolves around him or her. A) Dynamic character. B) Static character. C) Protagonist. D) Antagonist. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Protagonist. 20. A comparison of two unrelated things not using like or as A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesIntroductions QuizzesLiterary Devices Quiz 1Literary Devices Quiz 2Literary Devices Quiz 3Literary Devices Quiz 4Literary Devices Quiz 5Literary Devices Quiz 6Literary Devices Quiz 7Literary Devices Quiz 8Literary Devices Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books