This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 177 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 177 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A direct comparison between two things using the words "like" or "as." A) Repetition. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 2. Perspective from which the story is told A) Humor. B) Point of view. C) Imagery. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Point of view. 3. Often times provides background information A) Foreshadowing. B) Flashback. C) Theme. D) Resolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flashback. 4. Which of the following is an example of dramatic irony? A) A mother expecting her children to do well in school, and they make the honor roll. B) A man meets his long-lost son but doesn't know it, although the reader does. C) A little girl can see the future. D) A teacher tells her students they did well on a test, but actually they all failed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A man meets his long-lost son but doesn't know it, although the reader does. 5. What is an ordinary object, event, person, animal, etc., to which we have attached extraordinary meaning or significance? A) Symbol. B) Metaphor. C) Synonym. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Symbol. 6. The element editorial cartoonists use that is the "opposite of what is expected" is called ..... A) Irony. B) Oppositely. C) Analogy. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irony. 7. Connotations refers to a meaning that is implied by a word. Connotations are often decided by cultural and emotional meanings. If someone called you childish, would it be considered a negative or positive connotation? A) Positive. B) Negative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Negative. 8. The clunker of a truck banged and clanged down the road. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Imagery. C) Simile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 9. Tongues of sandpaper lapped at my hands. The morning flew by as I filled bowls and changed papers. What are the blue phrases? A) Both similes. B) Both metaphors. C) One simile and one metaphor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Both metaphors. 10. You are like a rain A) Metaphor. B) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 11. The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of closely connected words. A) Allusion. B) Hyperbole. C) Alliteration. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 12. The city I live in never sleeps. A) Metaphor. B) Imagery. C) Personification. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 13. This part of the story is the high point, the most exciting, dramatic part. A) Rising acions. B) Climax. C) Exposition. D) Resolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Climax. 14. "Nory was a Catholic because her mother was a Catholic, and Nory's mother was a Catholic because her father was a Catholic, and her father was a Catholic because his mother was a Catholic, or had been." A) Juxtaposition. B) Allusion. C) Personification. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repetition. 15. Which literary device uses symbols to signify ideas and qualities that are different than their literal sense? A) Allusion. B) Imagery. C) Symbolism. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbolism. 16. The selection of words in a literary work; writers use to convey action, reveal character, imply attitudes A) Enunciation. B) Pronunciation. C) Rhyme. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Diction. 17. Mental pictures which are created by descriptions of the senses, so that we can see and feel what the character is experiencing. A) Imagery. B) Flashback. C) Metaphor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 18. How many words in the following sentence should be capitalized? "A few days ago, my mother told my father, "i'm taking phillip to frankfurt, kentucky." A) 1. B) 2. C) 3. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 4. 19. "Mom tore through my messy room looking for it." A) Example of metaphor. B) Example of hyperbole. C) Imagery using sight. D) Imagery using touch. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Example of hyperbole. 20. A difference between what is said and what is meant or what is said and reality A) Situational irony. B) Verbal irony. C) Dramatic irony. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Verbal irony. ← 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