This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 117 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 117 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A contrast between what the character thinks to be true and what we (the reader) know to be true: A) Dramatic irony. B) Situational irony. C) Verbal irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dramatic irony. 2. A ladder may stand as a symbol for a connection between heaven and earth. A) Metaphor. B) Symbolism. C) Alliteration. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Symbolism. 3. Which word is the term for tools used by the author to enliven and provide voice to the text? A) Hyperbole. B) Motif. C) Literary Devices. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Literary Devices. 4. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza A) Couplet. B) The clock. C) Blank verse. D) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Couplet. 5. A time earlier than the main story A) Foreshadowing. B) Flashback. C) Hyperbole. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flashback. 6. "Iktomi was was walking along one day and he was going across the prairie. He went through the ravines, over the hills ..... and then he sees the body of water. As he gets closer and closer to this water he sees all of these prairie chickens along the water's edge. You could see them by the water and they are there dancing." What point of view is this story told in? A) First Person. B) Second Person. C) Third Person. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Third Person. 7. This year has been bitter-sweet. A) Oxymoron. B) Paradox. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron. 8. "Mike likes his new bike." A) Conflict. B) Connotation. C) Consonance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Consonance. 9. "But my heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill." -William Sharp A) Onomatopoeia. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 10. ..... is an intentional exaggeration for emphasis or comic effect. A) Personification. B) Symbolism. C) Hyperbole. D) Apostrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 11. What literary device is used to give human qualities to non-human entities? A) Personification. B) Paradox. C) Metaphor. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 12. Represents savagery, fun, and irrationality among the boys A) The beast. B) The hunters' dance. C) Piggy's glasses. D) The fire. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The hunters' dance. 13. What literary device is used in the revelation that Braling 1 and Braling 2 have switched places? A) Foreshadowing. B) Irony. C) Metaphor. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irony. 14. This makes a comparison between two or more things that are similar in some ways but otherwise unlike. A) Allusion. B) Analogy. C) Alliteration. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Analogy. 15. A person or entity who takes part in the action of the story or otherliterary work. A) Narrator. B) Character. C) Exposition. D) Climax. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Character. 16. Which is an example of 1st person narration? A) Susie poked Julia in the eye and laughed. B) I poked him in the eye and laughed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I poked him in the eye and laughed. 17. Method of persuasion that appeals to EMOTIONS and FEELINGS. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 18. A particular form of a language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group. A) Apostrophe. B) Genre. C) Connotation. D) Dialect. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dialect. 19. External struggle between a character and an element of nature;may struggle with an animal, land or weather A) Man vs. Man. B) Man vs. Nature. C) Man vs. Society. D) Man vs. Himself. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Man vs. Nature. 20. The example highlighted below is an example of? My Aunt Sherry is so tight with her money, that everyone in the family calls her Scrooge. A) Narrative. B) Personification. C) Assonance. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. ← 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