This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 142 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 142 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What type of noun names a specific person, place, or thing? A) Noun. B) Proper noun. C) They tend. D) Common noun. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Proper noun. 2. "My lips, two blushing pilgrims" is an example of ..... A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 3. When the same consonant letter or sound is at the beginning of several closely connected words A) Alliteration. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 4. What is the correct way to write act two scene two? A) Act II, scene ii. B) Act 2, Scene II. C) Act Two:Scene 2. D) Act Two; Scene two. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Act II, scene ii. 5. When the writer givers an advanced hint to what may happen later in the story A) Foreshadowing. B) Allusion. C) Simile. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foreshadowing. 6. What is Ms. Leibforth's favorite color? A) Green. B) Blue. C) Pink. D) Black. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Black. 7. It is a literary device used when the author uses an object or image to represent a larger idea or feeling. A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Symbolism. D) Suspense. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbolism. 8. Where do you PEAE A) End. B) Middle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Middle. 9. That test was a piece of cake! Is an example of a/an A) Idiom. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 10. Tension in literature is created using conflict, obstacles, friction, a struggle between two things A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 11. "Metaphor" is a ..... A) Literary Element. B) Literary Technique. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Literary Technique. 12. The associations called up by a word that goes beyond its dictionary definition A) Internal rhyme. B) Allusion. C) Connotation. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Connotation. 13. Which word or phrase best explains what an image in poetry is? A) Sensory language. B) Musical sound effect. C) Repetition. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sensory language. 14. A word or phrase that creates a picture in your mind or appeals to one or more of the five senses-sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell. A) Imagery. B) Alliteration. C) Foreshadowing. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 15. Rhetoric is the art of ..... A) Writing. B) Persuasion. C) Arguing. D) Learning complex vocabulary. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Persuasion. 16. Tobias was a green monster who was afraid of the dark. He'd scream whenever the lights were turned off. He went to a monster therapist who tried every method to teach Tobias that there was nothing to be afraid of. Unfortunately, Tobias never overcame his fears. A) Tobias is a flat character. B) Tobias is a round character. C) Tobias is a static character. D) Tobias is a dynamic character. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tobias is a static character. 17. The use of words that imitate the sounds they describe. A) Mime. B) Alliteration. C) Pun. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 18. The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines A) Anaphora. B) Stanza. C) Alliteration. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anaphora. 19. It's a group of cast members not involved in the plot who give the audience background information A) Comic relief. B) Alliteration. C) Chorus. D) Narrator. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chorus. 20. What type of figurative language is shown below:I think I read a million books this summer! A) Analogy. B) Hyperbole. C) Alliteration. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. ← 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