Literary Devices Quiz 151 (20 MCQs)

Quiz Instructions

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1. "Their voices were like guitars in the night" is an example of

Correct Answer: B) Simile.

2. Her new car cost an arm and a leg.

Correct Answer: C) Idiom.

3. A writer's word choices, which often convey voice and tone.

Correct Answer: D) Diction.

4. There are four lines in each

Correct Answer: C) Verse.

5. I am the smartest person in the world.

Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole.

6. The action following the climax, a cool down

Correct Answer: B) Falling action.

7. Which of the following is an example of a symbol?

Correct Answer: D) All of the above.

8. The dog's bed is a marshmallow, it looks so comfortable.

Correct Answer: C) Metaphor.

9. What is this term?a part standing for or representing the whole

Correct Answer: A) Synecdoche.

10. Is this alliteration?The cobra caused chaos in the theatre.

Correct Answer: A) Yes.

11. The most common type of meter is

Correct Answer: A) Iambic pentameter.

12. "The trees were punching at the sky as the wind shook them wildly"

Correct Answer: C) Personification.

13. Movement imagery

Correct Answer: C) Kinetic.

14. It's those we hate the most that need love the most.

Correct Answer: C) Paradox.

15. Choose a synonym for hint, mention, reference.

Correct Answer: B) Allusion.

16. The comparison of two unlike things using the words "like" or "as" is referred to as a?

Correct Answer: C) Simile.

17. The feeling or idea that a word has. (Not necessarily the dictionary definition.)

Correct Answer: C) Connotation.

18. Events that took place at an earlier time

Correct Answer: B) Flashback.

19. "Her hair is as black as the night sky" is an example of .....

Correct Answer: A) Simile.

20. What is the literary device where two words are opposing and contradictory?

Correct Answer: D) Oxymoron .