This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 160 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 160 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "A thicket of berry bushes protects it from unwanted eyes." A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 2. The repetition of initial consonant sounds (ex:Mickey Mouse). A) Hyperbole. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Alliteration. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 3. The words that a character speaks in a story ..... ORwhen a character speaks A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Dialogue. D) Talking. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dialogue. 4. The use of a repeating sound, phrase, word, or sentence for emphasis. A) Repetition. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 5. Select the word that correctly defines each story element. The climax of the story is when A) The turning point where the characters must face the main problem. B) The way an author creates a character. C) The description of the setting. D) The words the characters say to each other. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The turning point where the characters must face the main problem. 6. This is the repetition of initial consonant sounds in a line of poetry A) Personification. B) Alliteration. C) Imagery. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 7. E stands for..... A) Elaborate. B) Extend. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Elaborate. 8. I am as hungry as a bear! Is an example of ..... A) Hyperbole. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 9. A word which imitates the natural sounds of a thing, for example BUZZ and POP: A) Onomatopoeia. B) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 10. The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines or a poem or verse A) Dialect. B) Allusion. C) Irony. D) Rhyme Scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme Scheme. 11. Natural laws of human development as they relate to environment. A) Anthropoid. B) Anthropology. C) Anthropometer. D) Anthroponomy. E) Anthropopathic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anthroponomy. 12. What is this an example of?The storm clouds began to cry. A) Idiom. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 13. The Center for Disease Control advises everyone to get a flu vaccination. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 14. Which literary device is used in the sentence 'The wind whistled in the air.'? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 15. This is an extended work in prose, either fictitious or partly so, dealing with character, action, thought, etc, especially in the form of a story A) Novice. B) Novel. C) Noun. D) Monologue. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Novel. 16. Is Flashback a Literary device? A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 17. Which literary device compares two different things using the words 'like' or 'as'? A) Paradox. B) Irony. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 18. "The old charts call it 'Ship-Trap Island, "' Whitney replied. "A suggestive name, isn't it? Sailors have a curious dread of the place. I don't know why. Some superstition ..... " A) Allusion. B) Imagery. C) Metaphor. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Foreshadowing. 19. "The children pressed to each other like so many roses ..... " A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Imagery. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 20. It is going to take a zillion years to get through medical school. What is this? A) Simile. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 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