This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 17 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 17 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. An obvious exaggeration. "I've told you a million times!" A) Alliteration. B) Characterization. C) Imagery. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 2. Interruption of the narrative to show an episode that happened before that particular point in the story. A) Flashback. B) Style. C) Stereotype. D) Point of view. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Flashback. 3. A sudden perception (moment of understanding)that causes a character to change or act in acertain way A) Epitaph. B) Epiphany. C) Epic. D) Content. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epiphany. 4. Creating a sound through a word A) Onomatopoeia. B) Hyperbole. C) Connotation. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 5. Devices that authors use to enhance their literary work are called A) Conflicting views. B) Literary elements. C) Implied themes. D) Points of view. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Literary elements. 6. What type of characterization describes the character through their physical description, line of work, or passions and pursuits. A) Direct characterization. B) Indirect characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Direct characterization. 7. A literary tactic of diverting attention away from an item or person of significance A) Deus ex machina. B) Indeterminable ending. C) Plot manipulation. D) Red herring. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Red herring. 8. Characterization:element or technique? A) Literary element. B) Literary technique. C) Both. D) Neither. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Literary element. 9. There is a real love hate relationship developing between the two of them. A) Repetition. B) Personification. C) Oxymoron. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oxymoron. 10. The distinctive words and way a character speaks is called ..... A) Point of view. B) Personification. C) Dictation. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Diction. 11. Examples of ..... are:family, love, hard work pays off, never give up, perseverance, friendship A) Metaphor. B) Allusion. C) Symbolism. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Theme. 12. Literature in which human errors or problemsappear funny-these stories end on a happynote A) Novel. B) Comedy. C) Thriller. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Comedy. 13. Infer means to do what? A) Guess. B) Draw conclusions. C) Predict. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 14. I feel something so right Doing the wrong thing And I feel something so wrong Doing the right thing I couldn't lie, couldn't lie, couldn't lie Everything that kills me makes me feel alive(One Republic) A) Oxymoron. B) Metaphor. C) Juxtaposition. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Juxtaposition. 15. "They surged about her, caught her up and bore her, protesting, and then pleading, and then crying, back into a tunnel, a room, a closet, where they slammed and locked the door. " is an example of A) Metaphors. B) Repetitions. C) Alliteration. D) Short and long sentences. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Short and long sentences. 16. What are the odds the gods would put us all in one spot A) Slant rhyme. B) Metaphor. C) Assonance. D) Synecdoche. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assonance. 17. An exaggeration not intended to be taken at a literal level A) Paradox. B) Symbol. C) Hyperbole. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 18. When you give human characteristics to animals or objects A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 19. Identify a more vivid way to write the verb in the following sentence:The hungry student ate his lunch in 10 seconds because he was starving. A) Protested. B) Eating. C) Drank. D) Devoured. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Devoured. 20. The main sequence of events. A) Plot. B) Prologue. C) Set. D) Setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plot. ← 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