This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 145 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 145 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Definition-a figure of speech, usually one or two words, in which seemingly contradictory terms appear side by side. This contradiction is also known as a paradox. Example-The blob fish is pretty ugly. A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Onomatopoeia. E) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Oxymoron. 2. "The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor ..... " This is an example of A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 3. Luella wants Roger..... A) To work hard. B) To be her son. C) To be a moral person. D) Go home. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To be a moral person. 4. After he kills Duncan, Macbeth is A) Joyous. B) Overcome with guilt and remorse. C) Indifferent. D) Anxious but then relieved. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Overcome with guilt and remorse. 5. "The shady curtains from Aurora's bed" is an example of A) Idiom. B) Simile. C) Allusion. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 6. Exists when the reader sees what the characters in the story do not A) Dramatic irony. B) Hyperbole. C) Imagery. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dramatic irony. 7. These are tools that an author may choose to use to enhance their writing and to convey meaning in a certain way. Figurative language and sound devices are examples of literary techniques. A) Literary Devices. B) Literary Themes. C) Literary Techniques. D) Literary Criticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Literary Techniques. 8. What is the purpose of a soliloquy? A) To create an organization or a pattern to highlight the physical relationships of details or objects in a written piece. B) To create sensory details and phrases to appeal to the reader's senses of sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell. C) To reveal a character's inner thoughts, feelings or plans to the audience. D) To arrange the words and lines in a poem or story in order to produce a desired effect. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To reveal a character's inner thoughts, feelings or plans to the audience. 9. You can't teach an old dog new tricks A) Hyperbole. B) Idiom. C) Onomatopoeia. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Idiom. 10. Why does Winnie feel reassured when she hears the music box? A) She is happy to see her old friend Mae again. B) She had a friend who had one like it. C) She loves music boxes. D) She heard it the night before when Mae was in the woods and Winnie was with her grandmother and the man in the yellow suit. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She heard it the night before when Mae was in the woods and Winnie was with her grandmother and the man in the yellow suit. 11. "Look hard for your river Jordan, my child. You'll find it." A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Allusion. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 12. The technique of giving the reader hints of what is to come later A) Connotation. B) Allusion. C) Foreshadowing. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Foreshadowing. 13. What is the meaning of the allusion?Ask me anything; I'm like Google over here. A) I can search answers. B) I know all the answers. C) I don't know anything. D) I have some answers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I know all the answers. 14. Plot has ..... required parts. A) 2. B) 3. C) 4. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 5. 15. Measure A) Geo. B) Graph. C) Meter. D) Bull. E) Nom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Meter. 16. Which literary device is used in the following sentence:'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers'? A) Onomatopoeia. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 17. The attitude of a writer towards the subject or audience. A) Dialect. B) Voice. C) Tone. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tone. 18. Two kids meet up in the hallway and start to fight. A) Conflict. B) Foreshadowing. C) Analogy. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Conflict. 19. When a word or phrase is written multiple times, usually for the purpose of emphasis. A) Metaphor. B) Foreshadowing. C) Colloquialism. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repetition. 20. A scene in a movie, novel, etc., set in a time earlier than the main story. A) Irony. B) Mood. C) Metaphor. D) Flashback. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Flashback. ← 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