This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 124 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 124 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When Ruth Jones's alarm clock woke her at seven o'clock that morning, she had no idea that today would be the longest day of her life. What is this an example of? A) Flashback. B) Foreshadowing. C) Allusion. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foreshadowing. 2. "The pirate smelled like a garbage can, " is an example of ..... A) Hyperbole. B) Irony. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 3. Why would Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones want to help this boy? A) She was a nice person and helped everyone. B) She thought Roger was homeless. C) She was young once and had been in similar situations as Roger. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She was young once and had been in similar situations as Roger. 4. The repetition of vowels sounds in a word:Holy Mole A) Consonance. B) Assonance. C) Refrain. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 5. In a creative writing class, Abigail wrote the following sentence:'The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas'. Grace and Maya are discussing about it. According to them, what literary device did Abigail use in her sentence? A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 6. The guides made sure to focus when they repeated the head count. A) Allusion. B) Metonymy. C) Paradox. D) Synecdoche. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Synecdoche. 7. The message the author is trying to express within a story A) Resolution. B) Falling action. C) Theme. D) Point of view. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theme. 8. Who was Narcissus A) A man who loved himself and stared at his own reflection. B) A man who hated other people and plotted revenge. C) A man who fell in love but destroyed the love with jealousy. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A man who loved himself and stared at his own reflection. 9. A reference, typically brief, to a person, place, thing, event, or other literary work with which the reader is presumably familiar. A) Archetype. B) Euphemism. C) Symbolism. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Archetype. 10. Now I'm the model of a modern major general, /the venerated Virginian veteran whose men are all lining up A) End rhyme. B) Allusion. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 11. Which literary device is the example referring to? If a character mentions offhandedly that bad things always happen to them in autumn, then the observant reader will be alert when the leaves in the story begin to fall. A) Foreshadowing. B) Paradox. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foreshadowing. 12. Giving humanlike qualities to nonhuman things A) Simile. B) Allusion. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 13. "She had a smile like the sun" What literary device can you spot here? A) Simile. B) Irony. C) Metaphor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 14. A part of something represents the whole, or the whole represents the part A) Allusion. B) Enjambment. C) Synecdoche. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Synecdoche. 15. A concrete object that stands for something deeper is called ..... A) Imagery. B) Symbolism. C) Situational irony. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Symbolism. 16. When human characteristics are given to inanimate (non-living) things it is called, ..... A) Point of view. B) Personification. C) Personality. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 17. A situation in which there are two contradicting meanings of the same event, image, words, or story, often referring to the difference between expectation and reality A) Paradox. B) Diction. C) Irony. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Irony. 18. What is Parallelism/Parallel Style? A) Moral character. B) Emotions. C) A pattern of repetition of words/phrases. D) Comparison w/a concept. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A pattern of repetition of words/phrases. 19. What best defines the hero of an epic? A) The epic hero is a leader who is identified with a particular society and undertakes a great deed in battle or a quest. B) The epic hero is a strong man in a cool costume who helps people. C) The epic hero is a loner who goes his own way and solves problems along the way. D) The epic hero is a poser who runs away at the first sign of danger. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The epic hero is a leader who is identified with a particular society and undertakes a great deed in battle or a quest. 20. "The pen is mightier than the sword" is an example of ..... A) Simile. B) Metonymy. C) Personification. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metonymy. ← 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