This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 162 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 162 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. I remember my first time on a roller coaster like it was yesterday. I was six years old and terrified. A) Flashback. B) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Flashback. 2. What is the foreshadow in this passage?It was only 5:00AM, so everyone else in the house was still asleep. As they crept through the kitchen to the back door, Mary sniffed the air. It had the faint scent of coffee and something sweet. She shrugged it off and followed Justin out the door, down the back steps, and out onto the boat dock. The fog had settled over the lake, making it impossible to see anything. A) That Mary and Justin were going to go back to bed. B) That they might get into an accident or get lost on the lake because the fog made it impossible to see anything. C) They were about to eat breakfast. D) Hat Mary and Justin were going to go for a nice boat ride across the lake. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) That they might get into an accident or get lost on the lake because the fog made it impossible to see anything. 3. It is the repeated use of a word of line to lay emphasis A) Simile. B) Repetition. C) Hyperbole. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 4. The storm came in so fast. We didn't have any time to prepare. A) Flashback. B) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Flashback. 5. "Just as a Sword is the Weapon of a Warrior, a Pen is the Weapon of a Writer" is an example of ..... A) Simile. B) Analogy. C) Allusion. D) Metaphor. E) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Analogy. 6. Which is an example of an oxymoron? A) He said he was smart. B) Never give up and never surrender. C) Parting is such sweet sorrow. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parting is such sweet sorrow. 7. What type of figurative language gives human characteristics to nonhuman things? A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 8. An explanation, often employing metaphor and/or simile, in which an idea or a thing is compared to something that is quite different from it, but that would be familiar to the reader. A) Analogy. B) Unrelated. C) Connotation. D) Epigraph. E) Foil. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Analogy. 9. Which Literary Device is in the following sentence:The car was speeding down the road like a Tesla Rocket. A) Metaphor. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Alliteration. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 10. Human qualities attributed to an animal, object, or idea. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 11. Which is NOT an example of alliteration from the book? A) Complete calamity. B) Fluted flight feathers. C) Barking booming. D) Musky dark. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Musky dark. 12. Is this an example of imagery? "They ate food." A) Yes. B) No. C) No clue. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No. 13. Part of the story in which the problem(s) is moving toward a solution and major action comes to a satisfying end (usually) A) Exposition. B) Climax. C) Resolution. D) Falling action. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Falling action. 14. 'Shape poetry' is a type of poem whose visual appearance matches the topic of the poem. A) Rhyming Poem. B) Limerick. C) Sonnet. D) Concrete. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Concrete. 15. Cra-sack! Whumph! The beam broke and fell on them. A) Alliteration. B) Oxymoron. C) Metaphor. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 16. A word that represents a sound. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Oxymoron. C) Personification. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 17. What list of terms are classified as figurative language? A) Smell, Hear, See, Touch, Taste. B) Soft Sounds, Assonance, Onomatopoeia, Cadence, Rhythm. C) Simile, Hyperbole, Alliteration, Metaphor, Personification, Allusion. D) Square, Triangle, Rectangle, Circle, Oval. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile, Hyperbole, Alliteration, Metaphor, Personification, Allusion. 18. Visually descriptive figurative language A) Imagery. B) Cliche. C) Pun. D) Allegory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 19. Character that does not change throughout the course of the story; no transformations or important life lessons A) Flat character. B) Round character. C) Static character. D) Dynamic character. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Static character. 20. Language that is used to convey something that is different from the literal dictionary definition of the word A) Figurative Language. B) Literal Language. 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