This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 110 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 110 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. It's time to buckle down and get this yard work done. A) Idiom. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. E) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 2. This is the step in plot sequence where the events occur right after the climax and the story gets resolved. A) Exposition. B) Rising Action. C) Climax. D) Falling Action. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Falling Action. 3. "My teeth chattered as I waited for the bus in the cold" A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 4. Just look at the way Sam is eating. He's such a pig. A) Simile. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 5. A sentence or fragment of a sentence in a poem. A) Line. B) Sentence. C) Quatrain. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Line. 6. The struggle between two opposing forces that is the basis of the plot. A) Conflict. B) Connotation. C) Consonance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Conflict. 7. Giving human characteristics to an animal or inanimate object. A) Hyperbole. B) Symbol. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 8. The narrator is focused on the feelings of just one character (uses he, him, she, they, them). What point of view? A) Omniscient. B) First Person. C) Second Person. D) Third person Limited. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Third person Limited. 9. The quality of being open to more than one interpretation. This kind of language or expressions can be understood in multiple ways, leading to uncertainty or confusion. A) Rhetoric. B) Analogy. C) Ambiguity. D) Sarcasm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ambiguity. 10. Which of these is NOT true about theme? A) A theme can be tracked throughout an entire story/book. B) A theme should be able to be applied to multiple stories. C) A theme should be a full sentence. D) A theme should be specific to one story and include character names. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A theme should be specific to one story and include character names. 11. I hear the snap of a twig. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Imagery. C) Alliteration. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 12. A literary device by which the audience's understanding of events or individuals in a work surpasses that of its characters. A) Dramatic irony. B) Allusion. C) Monologue. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dramatic irony. 13. I am a black ocean in your future. I am a dark ocean in your future. A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Understatement. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 14. Employing the five senses (sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste) to engage a reader's interest A) Figurative language. B) Characterization. C) Dialogue. D) Sensory details. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sensory details. 15. The "turning point" of the literary work. A) Rising Action. B) Theme. C) Setting. D) Climax. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Climax. 16. A comparison between two unlike things with the intent of giving added meaning to one of them. No special words are used. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 17. Who throws their money around like dandelions into the sunlight? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 18. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy. A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Repetition. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 19. The sequence of events that happen in a story A) Plot. B) Theme. C) Characterization. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plot. 20. The repetition of consonant sounds, Ex. "Fetched fresh, as I suppose, off some sweet wood." A) Consonance. B) Alliteration. C) Allusion. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. ← 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