This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 119 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 119 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When you stop the main action of a story to tell something in the past is known as ..... A) Hyperbole. B) Irony. C) Flashback. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Flashback. 2. Stood Santa's sleigh A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 3. The earth waited for the perfect time to exact its revenge. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Apostrophe. E) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 4. A traditional story that is passed down through generations and explains why the world is the way it is ..... defines the following term A) Legend. B) Deism. C) Symbol. D) Myth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Myth. 5. I have done this a thousand times. A) Alliteration. B) Hyperbole. C) Rhetorical devices. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 6. Use of words and phrases that appeal to a reader's five senses in order to describe something is what? A) Metaphors. B) Allusion. C) Imagery. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 7. Epistolary A) A novel written as a series of documents. B) A plot that follows a straight moving, chronological order. C) The angle of vision from which a story is told. D) A sudden descent from the impressive or significant to the ludicrous. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A novel written as a series of documents. 8. It is a causal reference to a famous/ biblical story. A) Illusion. B) Allusion. C) Delusion. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 9. Sarcasm is usually a type of A) Pun. B) Dramatic irony. C) Situational irony. D) Verbal irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Verbal irony. 10. "A work that symbolizes or represents an idea or event." is an A) Alliteration. B) Allegory. C) Allusion. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allegory. 11. Definition of THEME is A) The beginning of a story. B) What the reader senses. C) The lesson for the reader. D) A problem to be solved. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The lesson for the reader. 12. A character that shows only a single trait is called a A) Round character. B) Flat character. C) Complex character. D) Square character. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flat character. 13. This excerpt appeals to which sense:Down in the street little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn paper into spirals, and though the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue ..... A) Sound. B) Smell. C) Sight. D) Touch. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sight. 14. Complete the simile.Her ring shines like ..... A) Water. B) The sun. C) A kitten. D) Ice. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The sun. 15. Narrator only gives insight into the thoughts and feelings of ONE character in a story, uses pronouns such as "she" "they", narrator not a character in the story A) First Person Point of View. B) Second Person Point of View. C) Third Person Omniscient ("all knowing") Point of View. D) Third Person Limited Point of View. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Third Person Limited Point of View. 16. Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of two or more words (close together) A) Symbol. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 17. What is ethos? A) A word or expression used in lieu of a harsher alternative. B) The author's attitude toward a subject. C) How the text makes someone feel. D) An appeal to ethics and credibility. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An appeal to ethics and credibility. 18. The phrase, "This bag weighs a ton, " is an example of what literary device? A) Allusion. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 19. The following are examples of what?Harry Potter, Scout, Peter Parker, Elsa A) Protagonist. B) Movies. C) Heroes. D) Characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Protagonist. 20. What type of literary device is illustrated below: "My temper really flared up when he walked into the room." A) Simile. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) Onomatopoeia. 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