This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 137 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 137 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Croak, caw, buzz, whirr, swish, hum, quack, meow, oink, and tweet are examples of what literary device? A) Personification. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Alliteration. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 2. Why does Roger grow afraid in the beginning of the story? A) He thinks Mrs. Jones will kidnap him. B) He thinks Mrs. Jones will call his mom. C) He thinks Mrs. Jones is going to hurt him. D) He thinks Mrs. Jones is going to call the police. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He thinks Mrs. Jones is going to call the police. 3. The son of the police chief is arrested for attempted burglary. A) Situational Irony. B) Verbal Irony. C) Dramatic Irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Situational Irony. 4. "It is one million degrees in Ms. Tomlinson's room!" is an example of ..... ? A) Personification. B) Allusion. C) Hyperbole. D) Direct characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 5. Today was the best day ever. A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 6. The snow whispered as it fell to the ground. What kind of Figurative language is the statement? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 7. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of at least two words in a line of poetry. A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Alliteration. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 8. What is it when the author integrates the audience into the play? A) Role Playing. B) Improv. C) Metatheater. D) Musicals. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metatheater. 9. What type of poem has a fixed form with 14 lines, where each line has ten syllables? A) Rhyming Poem. B) Limerick. C) Sonnet. D) Free Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sonnet. 10. An author makes an indirect reference to a figure, place, event, or idea originating from outside the text. A) Flashback. B) Allusion. C) Irony. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 11. Identify the literary device in the following sentence:'Time is money.' A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 12. Which pronouns are generally used by the narrator in Third Person Point of View passages? A) I, me, we, etc. B) You, yours, etc. C) He, she, they, or characters names, etc. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He, she, they, or characters names, etc. 13. Smell imagery A) Thermal. B) Aural. C) Olfactory. D) Visual. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Olfactory. 14. Choose the correct relationship between literary devices, elements, and techniques A) Literary elements include literary techniques, but not devices. B) The term "literary device" includes elements and techniques. C) The term "literary element" is an add on to a technique or device. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The term "literary device" includes elements and techniques. 15. Which of the following is an evaluative word? A) Listing. B) Imaginatively. C) Repetition. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imaginatively. 16. The comparison of two unlike things by saying one is like another A) Metaphor. B) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 17. When a person says something that is the opposite of what he/she means, the person is using A) Ironic speech. B) Verbal irony. C) Trickery. D) Verbal disagreement. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Verbal irony. 18. That government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the Earth A) Allusion. B) Allegory. C) Anthropomorphism. D) Unrelated. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Unrelated. 19. Which sentence is a "descriptive sentence" using the 5 senses? A) The cat can fly. B) The classroom was caked in a thick lime like smell that permeated my nostrils. C) I am reading a book. D) The car is fast. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The classroom was caked in a thick lime like smell that permeated my nostrils. 20. What type of Japanese poem consists of 17 syllables arranged in three lines, with the first line having 5 syllables, the second line 7, and the third line 5? A) Rhyming Poem. B) Limerick. C) Sonnet. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Haiku. ← 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