This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 165 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 165 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The sun hid his face behind the clouds. A) Hyperbole. B) Apostrophe. C) Personification. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 2. A literary, musical, or artistic work that imitates another's recognizable style or pieces together a medley of often incongruous elements from a number of existing works. A) Apostrophe. B) Colloquialism. C) Conceit. D) Enjambment. E) Pastiche. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Pastiche. 3. Else if you would be a man speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today. The words in BLUE are an example of A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 4. " ..... bony muscles hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square." -TKAM, Ch 1 A) Personification. B) Allusion. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 5. It was so cold I saw polar bears wearing hats A) Hyperbole. B) Idiom. C) Alliteration. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 6. An alphabetical listing of difficult, technical, or foreign terms with definitions or translation; usually found at the end of a book. A) Atlas. B) Resolution. C) Glossary. D) Series. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Glossary. 7. Pick the hyperbole below: A) Can't you get this question correct?. B) Mr. Smith is older than the hills. C) I went skating last Tuesday. D) Marcella was very, very cold. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mr. Smith is older than the hills. 8. "Living dead" is known as an ..... A) Image. B) Allusion. C) Oxymoron. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oxymoron. 9. The towering mountains loomed in the distance, their snow-capped peaks glistening in the sunlight. A) Visual imagery. B) Auditory imagery. C) Olfactory imagery. D) Gustatory imagery. E) Tactile imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Visual imagery. 10. When the reader knows something crucial that the characters do not-often leading to a shocking outcome-this is the definition of ..... A) Conflict. B) Verbal irony. C) Situational irony. D) Dramatic irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dramatic irony. 11. When words that appear in a sentence or a line of poetry begin with the same sound or letter A) Repetition. B) Alliteration. C) Consistency. D) Algorithm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 12. A character that does change by the end of the story is a ..... character. A) Round. B) Flat. C) Static. D) Dynamic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dynamic. 13. At the end of the story, Roger wishes he could say more than "Thank you, ma'm" but he doesn't. What is the reason he couldn't do so? A) He doesn't have any manners. B) He is upset that she wants him to leave. C) He doesn't want the money she gave him. D) He can't think of the words to express his gratitude. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He can't think of the words to express his gratitude. 14. "With torn and bleeding hearts we smile, " is an example of A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 15. What is an autobiography? A) Story about a person written by that person. B) Story about a person written by another person. C) Story passed on from generation to generation. D) Story about computers, technology, and machines. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Story about a person written by that person. 16. Vantage point from which the story is told A) Plot. B) Point of view. C) Narrator. D) Conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Point of view. 17. A loud crunch sounded when I bit into my taco. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 18. A moment of sudden realization or insight. A) Epiphany. B) Malapropism. C) Cliche. D) Comic relief. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Epiphany. 19. Definition-gives human characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, or ideas. The non-human objects are portrayed in such a way that we feel they have the ability to act like human beings. Example-The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky. A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Onomatopoeia. E) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 20. "The road was an aisle of brilliant velvet dust." A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. 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