This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 121 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 121 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses an absent person or personified quality, object, or idea A) Personification. B) Apostrophe. C) Anaphora. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Apostrophe. 2. A scene in a movie or novel set in a time earlier than the main story is what? A) Imagery. B) Flashback. C) Alliteration. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flashback. 3. What is this an example of?Love is a battlefield. A) Idiom. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 4. This type of irony occurs when the audience knows something that the characters don't. A) Dramatic. B) Situational. C) Verbal. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dramatic. 5. Even though Jimmy is a pilot he has a fear of heights. A) Simile. B) Sarcasm. C) Paradox. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Irony. 6. Comparing two unlike things NOT using "like" or "as" A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteratioin. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 7. Setting is defined as ..... A) The chief opponent of the main character. B) The struggle between opposing forces. C) An object that represents a broader, hard-to-define idea. D) The time (including historical context) and place in which a story takes place. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The time (including historical context) and place in which a story takes place. 8. And it seems to me you lived your life, like a candle in the wind. A) Metaphor. B) Idiom. C) Simile. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 9. A thing which stands for or represents something else A) Imagery. B) Consonance. C) Oxymoron. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbolism. 10. What is this an example of? "A mountain climbing exploration Took us to these distant peaks Where no one's ever been before. Was it my imagination? Did I feel this mountain move? Did I hear it snore?" A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Flashback. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 11. The use of an object, character, or idea to represent something else. A) Plot. B) Oxymoron. C) Theme. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbolism. 12. Most people think that gorillas are mean, but actually they are shy. It seems that such a huge animal with very large teeth would be aggressive. Hollywood movies help convey this image of the scary, ferocious gorilla. In fact, gorillas only attack if they are provoked. This author belives that: A) Gorillas are misunderstood as vicious animals. B) Gorillas are mean animals. C) Gorillas don't like other animals. tagsCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.10. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gorillas are misunderstood as vicious animals. 13. What is Annotation? A) A note or comment added to a text to provide explanation or criticism about a particular part of it. B) The repetition of the initial sounds of words. C) The emotional or cultural association with a word. D) A type of rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A note or comment added to a text to provide explanation or criticism about a particular part of it. 14. What is the definition of appearance vs. reality? A) Hope and hopelessness. B) Guilt. C) Feeling of being isolated or excluded. D) The contrast between how things seem and how they actually are. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The contrast between how things seem and how they actually are. 15. The islands were growing smaller and smaller A) Pun. B) Alliteration. C) Oxymoron. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oxymoron. 16. When one character in a story has a problem with one or more of the other characters A) Man vs. man conflict. B) Man vs. nature conflict. C) Man vs. society conflict. D) Man vs. self conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Man vs. man conflict. 17. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning or in the middle of words A) Alliteration. B) Allegory. C) Parallelism. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 18. His eyes were like stars. Susan is as gentle as a kitten A) Metaphor. B) Allusion. C) Simile. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 19. Definition-This is at play when an expected outcome is subverted. For example, in O. Henry's classic tale, The Gift of the Magi, a wife cuts off her long hair to sell it in order to buy her husband a chain for his prized watch. Meanwhile, the husband has sold his watch in order to buy his wife a comb for her hair. The ..... irony comes from each person not expecting to have their gift be undercut by the other's actions. A) Situational irony. B) Dramatic irony. C) Verbal irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Situational irony. 20. This is going to cost me an arm and a leg! A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Idiom. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Idiom. ← 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