This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 157 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 157 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. You can also download a multimedia presentation or play it live. It tells us about multimedia ..... A) Uses. B) Formats. C) Characteristics. D) Benefits. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Uses. 2. "Boom, boom, boom even brighter than the moon, moon, moon." A) Idiom. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 3. As soon as he saw her, the prince asked for her hand. A) Synecdoche. B) Metonymy. C) Alliteration. D) Anaphora. E) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Synecdoche. 4. A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two non-similar things. A) Metaphor. B) Imagery. C) Hyperbole. D) Figurative language. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 5. In the play, what breaks the cycle of insults, injuries and revenge that traps Shylock and the Christian characters together? A) Shylock's demands. B) Antonio's violence towards Shylock. C) The trial's result. D) Jessica running away. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The trial's result. 6. Is repetition repeating the same word? A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 7. Which of the following is the best example of a paradox? A) "He was in a room full of people, but he felt alone.". B) "Her home was like her castle.". C) "He played as if he were a professional on the field.". D) "A live orchestra filled her ears as she listened to the radio.". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "He was in a room full of people, but he felt alone.". 8. Refers to an author's word choice. Word choice can be formal, informal, colloquial or slang. A) Diction. B) Foreshadowing. C) Flashback. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Diction. 9. Life is a marathon, is an example of what? A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 10. A reference to something literary, mythological, historical, or biblical that the author assumes the reader will recognize A) Allusion. B) Alliteration. C) Allusions. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 11. That hockey player is an animal, so you better avoid him. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 12. "It was a dark and stormy night."This sentence creates ..... A) Mood. B) Allusion. C) Hyperbole. D) Characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mood. 13. In the play, "A Doll's House", Nora stands alone on the stage and speaks to herself and the audience. "You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me. It is perfectly true, Torvald. When I was at home with papa, he told me his opinion about everything, and so I had the same opinions; and if I differed from him I concealed the fact, because he would not have liked it. He called me his doll-child, and he played with me just as I used to play with my dolls. And when I came to live with you-I mean that I was simply transferred from papa's hands into yours. You arranged everything according to your own taste, and so I got the same tastes as your else I pretended to, I am really not quite sure which-I think sometimes the one and sometimes the other. When I look back on it, it seems to me as if I had been living here like a poor woman-just from hand to mouth. I have existed merely to perform tricks for you, Torvald. But you would have it so. You and papa have committed a great sin against me. It is your fault that I have made nothing of my life." A) Metaphor. B) Monologue. C) Dialogue. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Monologue. 14. Which point of view is the narrator "all-knowing" on the thoughts/feelings of TWO OR MORE characters? A) First person. B) Third person limited. C) Second person. D) Third person omniscient. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Third person omniscient. 15. -"indeed i never shall be satisfied with Romeo till i behold him ..... dead ..... " A) Situational Irony. B) Dramatic Irony. C) Verbal Irony. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Verbal Irony. 16. Draco Malfoy was the opposite of Harry and JK Rowling used him to show Harry's good traits. What type of literary device is this? A) Jargon. B) Foreshadowing. C) Foil character. D) Stock character. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Foil character. 17. What type of literary device is found in the following quite: "But what you remember most is this tree, huge, with fat arms and mighty families of squirrels in the higher branches" (22). A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 18. What figurative language is used in the sentence below ..... "I've got power, poison, pain and joy inside my DNA" A) Allusion. B) Alliteration. C) Apostrophe. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 19. A metaphor typically uses "like" or "as" . A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 20. Define:compound word A) One of two or more words pronounced alike but different in meaning (flour and flower, our & hour). B) Identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words (ex. "It beats as it sweeps as it cleans. "-Slogan for Hoover vacuum cleaners). C) The repetition of an initial consonant sound (ex. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.). D) Broadly, the repetition of consonant sounds; more specifically, the repetition of the final consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words (aka-half rhyme) (ex. Pitter Patter; rif raf; last but not least ). E) Word composed of two or more words (ex. butterfly, football, playground). Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Word composed of two or more words (ex. butterfly, football, playground). ← 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