This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 156 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 156 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The wind was blowing so hard, the sun was scared to come out. A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Oxymoron. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 2. It is the feeling conveyed by the READERS towards the passage. A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Voice. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mood. 3. "Purple puppies like playing on the playground. " This is an example of A) Personification. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 4. Which of the following sentences displays the best use of imagery? A) I am very hungry; I am so hungry I could eat a horse!. B) My stomach is rumbling and is about to eat itself. C) My mouth is watering at the smell of the warm cookies, rising with steam, that smell like vanilla. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) My mouth is watering at the smell of the warm cookies, rising with steam, that smell like vanilla. 5. A scene that is set in a time earlier than the main story A) Foreshadowing. B) Irony. C) Hyperbole. D) Flashback. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Flashback. 6. Stereotypes can be positive or negative A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 7. "Mrs. Nacarlo created a review game and encouraged the students to play then she watched to see how well they did and asked them what they needed more review on." A) Complete sentence. B) Run-on sentence. C) Sentence fragment. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Run-on sentence. 8. When something happens that is opposite of what was expected. A) Idiom. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Irony (situational). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Irony (situational). 9. Which literary device is used to repeat a word, phrase, or line for emphasis? A) Repetition. B) Imagery. C) Parallel Verses. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 10. Mammals names Sam are clammy.What is the literary device used in the sentence? A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Consonance. 11. Which of the following is the best definition of climax? A) A psychological struggle within the mind of a character. B) The part of a story that happens after the most exciting point but before the problems are solved. C) The most exciting part of a story when the tension is at the highest point. D) The sequence of events within a story. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The most exciting part of a story when the tension is at the highest point. 12. Identify the metaphor in the following sentence:'Her voice is music to his ears.'a) Her voiceb) music to his earsc) his earsd) is A) Her voice. B) Music to his ears. C) His ears. D) Is. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Music to his ears. 13. An author's purpose may be to amuse the reader, ....., inform the reader, or satirize a condition A) Persuade the reader. B) Make the reader cry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Persuade the reader. 14. What type of rhyme does the following have:"I cannot go to school today, "Said little Peggy Ann McKay A) Internal Rhyme. B) End Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) End Rhyme. 15. Which literary device is shown here? 7 ..... quod amantem iniuria talis8 cogit amare magis ..... A) Litotes. B) Polyptoton. C) Anaphora. D) Unrelated. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Polyptoton. 16. Used to persuade, motivate, and/or evoke emotional responses in an audience and is often used in speeches. A) Allegory. B) Parallelism. C) Metonymy. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parallelism. 17. One who seeks something beyond the boundaries of the mind or a physical location. A) Jester. B) Rebel. C) Explorer. D) Outlaw. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Explorer. 18. Murmur, buzz and pop is what device A) Alliteration. B) Symbolism. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 19. What is limited in a play, that can be virtually unlimited in a novel? A) Literary devices. B) Time and space. C) Characterisation. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Time and space. 20. The term used to describe a contrast between what appears to be and what really is A) Irony. B) Mood. C) Metaphor. D) Climax. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irony. ← 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