This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 114 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 114 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Why doesn't Winnie ask the man in the yellow suit for help when she is being kidnapped? A) She is too busy trying to stay on the horse and too shocked to call out to him. B) She wants him to follow her. C) Winnie is happy and excited to be with the tucks already. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She is too busy trying to stay on the horse and too shocked to call out to him. 2. Is this logical?A cow can be black and white. My dog is black and white. Therefore, my dog is a cow. A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No. 3. A literary device in which the author speaks or describes an animal, object, or idea as if it were a person. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Idiom. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 4. When a character says something but means the opposite A) Situational Irony. B) Verbal Irony. C) Foreshadowing. D) Suspense. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Verbal Irony. 5. What is being foreshadowed? The dark storm clouds rolled across the lake and Rebecca couldn't help but shiver. The ominous feeling the black clouds gave her made her pull her wool coat closely around her. She started walking faster and faster, hoping that whatever was coming would pass quickly. A) It is going to be a sunny day. B) She isn't afraid of the storm and she is going to take it head on. C) That Rebecca is really looking forward to the storm that is going to come in. D) There is going to be an intense rain storm that Rebecca is scared of. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) There is going to be an intense rain storm that Rebecca is scared of. 6. Which devices are used in Fiction AND Non-fiction A) Imagery, Character, Diction. B) Metaphor, Simile, Definition. C) Example, Cause and effect, appeal to authority. D) Compare and contrast, Metaphor, Description. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Compare and contrast, Metaphor, Description. 7. Words that imitate their sound A) Onomatopoeia. B) Assonance. C) Rhyme. D) True Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 8. The purpose or effect of dramatic irony is to ..... A) Create tension for the audience. B) Help the reader make predictions. C) Confuse the audience. D) Trick the audience into making hte wrong prediction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Create tension for the audience. 9. PerspectiveRefers to the way a reader/viewer is positioned by the author in relation to the text and/or how a particular ideology is embedded in a text. For example, a feminist perspective. A) Author. B) Text. C) Context. D) Audience. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Context. 10. When the audience or reader knows something important that a character in the story does not know, this is called A) Situational irony. B) Intelligent craft. C) Dramatic irony. D) Rising action. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dramatic irony. 11. The child bounced the ball at the backyard barbeque A) Irony. B) Personification. C) Alliteration. D) Litotes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 12. A struggle between opposing forces (often antagonist vs. protagonist) A) Deus ex machina. B) Plot. C) Conflict. D) Characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Conflict. 13. What is a historical illusion? A) The author's use of specific word choice to help the reader better understand a character or situation in the story. B) A brief references to a famous past event or person in history. Used to add context or help give meaning. C) The use of specific detailed descriptions to enhance a story and ensure deeper understanding. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A brief references to a famous past event or person in history. Used to add context or help give meaning. 14. Which is an example of description? A) An extremely long and wordy passage everyone will choose because long passages = good passages, right?. B) While I was in bed with the flu, I could hear the sound of the loud music and people's overlapping chatter downstairs. C) My friends were dancing, mingling, having a good time. D) Meanwhile, my classmate Egan was a musical genius-a god according to his friends. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) While I was in bed with the flu, I could hear the sound of the loud music and people's overlapping chatter downstairs. 15. A theme that is found throughout all of literature in different cultures and in different time periods A) Stated Theme. B) Implied Theme. C) Recurring Theme. D) Universal Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Universal Theme. 16. 'The sea was as flat as a plate-glass window.' A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 17. Periodic Sentence-A long sentence comprised of several short balanced, dependent clauses ending with an independent clause that completes the idea. A) "My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark thatlingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; andbehold a man transformed into abrute!" (38). B) Two ideas seem equal but theysuggest a closer look;may emphasize a contrast in ideas(antithesis). C) "A mere look, word, or motion, -amistake, accident, or want of power, -are all matters for which a slave maybe whipped at any time" (47). (also parallel). D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark thatlingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; andbehold a man transformed into abrute!" (38). 18. Identify the literary device: "The tables folded like butterflies" A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Allusion. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 19. "The children were flowers grown in concrete gardens" is an example of: A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 20. Repetition of initial consonant sounds, like the "w" sound in these lines: "Once up a midnight dreary, While I pondered, weak and weary." A) Personification. B) Alliteration. C) Symbolism. D) Parallelism. 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