This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 178 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 178 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A reference to well-known people, places, events, or literary works A) Imagery. B) Illustration. C) Illusion. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 2. Which literary element is being used when the horses freak out every time they say the woman's name, "Frau Blucher?" A) Physical comedy. B) Foreshadowing. C) Sarcasm. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foreshadowing. 3. Language that causes people to imagine pictures in their mind (touch, taste, smell, sight, hear) A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 4. The repetition of the same letter/sound in a sentence A) Consonance. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 5. A static character remains the same and does not change throughout the novel. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 6. The attribution of human characteristics to something non-human A) Parallelism. B) Personification. C) Alliteration. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 7. Who wrote ANIMAL FARM? A) Robert Nye. B) George Orwell. C) Russell Baker. D) Karl Marx. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) George Orwell. 8. I asked the father for his daughter's hand A) Anaphora. B) Chiasmus. C) Multi-connector. D) Synecdoche. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Synecdoche. 9. Let's play a fun game! Can you tell me what personification means? A) Is it a contrast between what is expected to happen and what actually happens?. B) Or, is it giving human qualities or characteristics to non-human entities?. C) Maybe, it's the use of words to imitate sounds?. D) Or, could it be exaggeration or emphasis for dramatic effect?. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Or, is it giving human qualities or characteristics to non-human entities?. 10. This type of allusion refers to a variety of allusions that combine cultural traditions in a single work. A) Self-reference. B) Casual reference. C) Single reference. D) Corrective allusion. E) Multiple references or conflation. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Multiple references or conflation. 11. What is the purpose of onomatopoeia in literature? A) To confuse the reader by using words that have no meaning. B) To provide a visual representation of characters and settings. C) To create a sensory experience for the reader by using words that imitate sounds. D) To enhance the plot by introducing new conflicts and resolutions. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To create a sensory experience for the reader by using words that imitate sounds. 12. What literary device is this:the same vowel sound appears many times in words that are close to one another. (a, e, i, o, u)? A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 13. Mountains of waves piled up on me. A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Apostrophe. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 14. What is Pathos? A) Is an ironic remark tempered by humor. B) The dictionary definition of a word. C) How the author/text makes the reader feel. D) Emotional associations attached to a word. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) How the author/text makes the reader feel. 15. ..... is the point in a plot that creates the greatest intensity, suspense, or interest; usually the point at which the conflict is resolved A) Exposition. B) Falling action. C) Rising action. D) Climax. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Climax. 16. In the meantime the sky begins with a great murmur of confusion, followed by a cloud mixed with hail, and the Counts of Tyria here and there, and the Trojan youth, and the grandson of Venus, fleeing in fear through the various fields; rivers rush down from the mountains. What literary device is found in lines 164? A) Synecdoche. B) Anaphora. C) Anaphora. D) Litotes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Synecdoche. 17. I'll succumb to something that I summon soon, A solar shock of sudden sun or moon To separate semesters, I'm the same as school So search the sections, get to stepping fool A) Onomatopoeia. B) Unconnected. C) Anaphora. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 18. If you reopen that discussion, you will just be reopening "Pandora's Box!" This is: A) Analogy. B) Allusion. C) Discussion. D) Pragmatism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 19. The baby splish-splashes in the water. A) 2nd person point of view. B) Allusion. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 20. This is an example of what kind of literary device:"Whoa! Hold your horses." A) Idiom. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. ← 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