This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 143 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 143 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch details in writing A) Characterization. B) Mood. C) Tone. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 2. Example:Pretty Peggy posed for the picture. A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. C) Assonance. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 3. A play on words involving a word with 2 or more different meanings or 2 words that sound alike and have different meetings. A) Allusion. B) Aside. C) Pun. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pun. 4. I was as busy as a ..... as I rushed to complete my homework. A) Elephant. B) Bat. C) Feather. D) Bee. E) Owl. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bee. 5. "My hand hurts so much it's going to drop off." Is an example of a ..... A) Hyperbole. B) Imagery. C) Alliteration. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 6. The theme is the underlying A) Main idea of the story. B) Message of the story. C) Symbolism. D) Mood of the story. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Message of the story. 7. In fiction, this is the narrator's attitude toward the text. In non-fiction, this is the author's/speaker's attitude toward his subject. A) Setting. B) Tone. C) Mood. D) Flashback. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 8. " ..... the only phrase of which I caught was ' ..... erected an absolute morphodite in that yard! Atticus, you'll never raise 'em!'"-TKAM, Ch 8 A) Malapropism. B) Euphemism. C) Oxymoron. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Malapropism. 9. "The score was four to two, with no more innings left to play." A) Personification. B) Inversion. C) Assonance. D) Epithet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assonance. 10. Which sentence is written in 3rd person? A) I wanted to go to the mall, but COVID stopped me. B) She went to the mall, because no one could tell her what to do. C) You wanted to tell Ms. Jessica not to go to the mall, but was afraid that she would give you a failing grade. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She went to the mall, because no one could tell her what to do. 11. Hiss! A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 12. "Nature's first green is gold" (1) A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 13. Which type of characterization best describes the quote below: "But I am so much more than that! I am a musician, and a swimmer, and a person able to make my own decisions." A) Direct characterization. B) Indirect characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Direct characterization. 14. "I dive into the stream of fourth-period lunch students and swim down the hall to the cafeteria" (7) A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 15. What is a character? A) The perspective from which a story is told. B) Person or animal invented by a writer. C) How a person is depicted in a story. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Person or animal invented by a writer. 16. And Winnie, looking down, saw hostsof tiny insects skittering and skatingon the surface A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 17. Details the author gives to help the reader predict future events A) Internal conflict. B) Theme. C) Foreshadowing. D) External conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Foreshadowing. 18. A character who provides a striking contrast to a main character A) Protagonist. B) Symbolic. C) Confidant. D) Foil. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Foil. 19. The character who works against the main character A) Round character. B) Protagonist. C) Antagonist. D) Flat Character. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Antagonist. 20. The use of exaggeration for effect is called ..... A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Alliteration. 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