This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 140 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 140 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When the character faces an inside opposition. A) Plot. B) External Conflict. C) Internal Conflict. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Internal Conflict. 2. Conflict that exists between a person and himself or herself A) Internal. B) External. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Internal. 3. What literary device represents a thing or abstraction as having human characteristics? A) Allusion. B) Hyperbole. C) Imagery. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 4. Which POV uses "I, me, and my" to tell a story? A) 1st person. B) 2nd person. C) 3rd person objective. D) 3rd person omniscient. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1st person. 5. Thunder rolled across the sky, shaking the house as if it were made of cards. The wind howled and moaned. The children tiptoed down the stairs holding tightly to the railing. The sounds of the storm had made it impossible for them to stay upstairs. They decided they wanted to be downstairs with their parents.Which describes the mood of the passage? A) Hopeless. B) Calm. C) Alarming. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alarming. 6. Point-of-View is: A) The buildup to an unknown outcome in a story. B) Who is telling the story (1st person, 2nd person, 3rd person). C) The way a character speaks. D) Description in a story that creates a picture in the reader's mind. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Who is telling the story (1st person, 2nd person, 3rd person). 7. All the world's a stage, and all the men and women [are] players. A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 8. "The latest proposal will not stop the steady declines of the coal industry." is an example of ..... A) Opinions presented as facts. B) Mind reading. C) Slant. D) Flawed logic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Opinions presented as facts. 9. When your parents learn about your new plan to raise money, it's going to sink like the Titanic. A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. C) Idiom. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 10. Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken" has a deeper meaning. Robert Frost is encouraging people to follow their own path. A) Connotation. B) Denotation. C) Mood. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Connotation. 11. The moon smiled down on us. A) Hyperbole. B) Oxymoron. C) Analogy. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 12. The usage of words in a way to create musical effect. It can be internal rhyme or end rhyme. A) Rhyme. B) Personification. C) Lithotes. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 13. Something that stands for or represents something else (ex:heart represents love) A) Satire. B) Symbol. C) Simile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Symbol. 14. Parallelism creates a parallel position between opposite ideas through grammatical elements as a means of emphasizing contrast. / Parallelism:Create a parallel position between opposing ideas through grammatical elements as a way to emphasize contrast. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 15. Her eyes were as big as saucers. A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Exaggeration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 16. Background information necessary in order to understand a story A) Exposition. B) Rising action. C) Climax. D) Resolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Exposition. 17. Which is the correct end mark for this sentence? What an amazing sight it must have been A) Period. B) Question mark. C) Exclamation point. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exclamation point. 18. "Maybe she's born with it, maybe it's Maybelline!" A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 19. A prediction, omen, or hint of what is to come in a story: A) Theme. B) Motif. C) Perspective. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Foreshadowing. 20. Refers to the overall feeling of a piece of writing A) Witty. B) Opinion. C) Tone. D) Triples. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tone. ← 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