This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 108 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 108 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which literary device is this:tic-tok, tic-tok, tic-tok A) Oxymoron. B) Allusion. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 2. The narrator is involved in the story and uses I to unfold the plot. A) Third person omniscient. B) Third person limited. C) Second person. D) First person. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) First person. 3. What is an example of an INTERNAL conflict? A) Individual vs. individual. B) Individual vs. supernatural. C) Individual vs. nature. D) Individual vs. self. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Individual vs. self. 4. As steady as A) A rock. B) A book. C) A box. D) A table. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A rock. 5. Repeating something that has already been stated A) Repetition. B) Analogy. C) Personification. D) Rhetorical devices. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 6. Which word means a poem about death or dying? A) Lyric. B) Ballad. C) Elegy. D) Sonnet. E) Limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Elegy. 7. Find the adjective phrase:Dianne cooked a delightful exotic Caribbean dish. A) A delightful exotic. B) Dianne cooked. C) Delightful exotic Caribbean. D) Caribbean dish. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Delightful exotic Caribbean. 8. Direct speech between characters A) Setting. B) Characterization. C) Diction. D) Dialogue. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dialogue. 9. One day, a kitten finds a small, white bell. It sits on a chair and rings the bell. Poof! The kitten is now a little girl.Where would you find this story? A) In a book of true stories. B) In a fairy tale book. C) In a newspaper. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In a fairy tale book. 10. True or false? An element of Gothic literature could involve hobbits and dragons. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 11. All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests A) Denotation. B) Connotation. C) Assonance. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Connotation. 12. What are flashbacks and what are they used for? A) Another word for present day. B) Author writes about characters' past life; helps the reader to understand character motive. C) Is the exact same as foreshadowing. D) Describes how quickly a character is developing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Author writes about characters' past life; helps the reader to understand character motive. 13. Define:verb A) Modifies a noun or pronoun by describing, identifying, or quantifying words (ex. fuzzy, colorful, five, big). B) Asserts something about the subject of the sentence and express actions, events, or states of being. C) Replaces another noun or pronoun. D) Modify a verb. E) Person, animal, place, thing, and abstract idea. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Asserts something about the subject of the sentence and express actions, events, or states of being. 14. "Hello darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you again ..... " (Paul Simon, The Sounds of Silence)is an example of ..... A) Personification. B) Juxtaposition. C) Anaphora. D) Apostrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Apostrophe. 15. What term means:A comparison of two things using "like" or "as" ? A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 16. An emotion, desire, physiological need, or similar impulse that acts as an incitement to action A) Plot device. B) Catastrophe. C) Motivation. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Motivation. 17. This is an example of which literary device? Now let me welcome everybody to the Wild Wild WestA state that's untouchable like Eliot Ness A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 18. The following is an example of a ..... "The man in that house." A) Complete sentence. B) Run-on sentence. C) Sentence fragment. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sentence fragment. 19. Which would be the best symbol for money? A) A key. B) A suitcase. C) A dollar sign. D) A brain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A dollar sign. 20. Identify the adverb in the following sentence:The baby played happily with its toy. A) Baby. B) Played. C) With. D) Happily. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Happily. ← 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