Literary Devices Quiz 122 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which literary device is all about the reader's emotions as they read?

Correct Answer: D) Mood.

2. This term means an appeal to emotion.

Correct Answer: A) Pathos.

3. " The fish I caught was 60 feet long!"

Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole.

4. Someone getting run over by an ambulance is an example of .....

Correct Answer: A) Irony.

5. This literary device uses "like" or "as" for comparision

Correct Answer: B) Simile.

6. "The silence was deafening."

Correct Answer: D) Oxymoron.

7. It refers to any electronic application that uses both words and pictures in a combination of text, voice, picture or video.

Correct Answer: B) Multimedia.

8. The central character or leading figure in a story. / The central character or main figure of a story.

Correct Answer: B) Protagonist.

9. Which of these is an example of a colloquialism?

Correct Answer: D) Both 1 and 2 are colloquialisms.

10. Descriptive words or phrases that appeal to the five senses.

Correct Answer: C) Imagery.

11. Static characters .....

Correct Answer: A) Stay the same.

12. How is analogy defined?

Correct Answer: A) The comparison between two similar items.

13. "I smelled the sour dirty laundry spilling over the basket in the hall" is .....

Correct Answer: A) Imagery.

14. Identify the type of irony in the following sentence:'I can't wait to go to the dentist.'

Correct Answer: A) Verbal irony.

15. What literary device compares two unlike things using "like" or "as" ?

Correct Answer: A) Simile.

16. A word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another and is not meantto be understood as literally true

Correct Answer: D) Figure of Speech.

17. Which literary device is being used in the sentence, "The buzzing bee flew by" ?

Correct Answer: D) Naming.

18. Those clucking chickens are driving me crazy! What literary device is used in the sentence?

Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia.

19. The author specifically TELLS the reader something about a character's personality/traits.

Correct Answer: A) Direct characterization.

20. It refers to the techniques employed by writers to develop characters through dialogue, description, action, reaction, and thoughts.

Correct Answer: B) Characterisation.