Literary Devices Quiz 197 (20 MCQs)

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1. The sun smiled at the angry clouds.

Correct Answer: D) Personification.

2. Which of the following could be added to the phrase, "My cat is black" to form a simile?

Correct Answer: D) As ink.

3. Read the following quote: "The dog barked loudly at the squirrel, which quickly ran up the tree." Is this an example of personification?

Correct Answer: B) No.

4. What is the abstract idea that dominates a literary work, the message of the story?

Correct Answer: A) Theme.

5. A form of language that writers use to convey something other than the literal meaning of their words

Correct Answer: B) Figurative language.

6. What is a Assonance?

Correct Answer: C) Is the repetition of the same or similar vowel sounds within words, phrases, or sentences.

7. An implied comparison between two things that are different, but share common characteristics

Correct Answer: B) Metaphor.

8. Her hair is like gold

Correct Answer: B) Simile.

9. Literature is a lens is an example of what literary device?

Correct Answer: B) Metaphor.

10. This is the use of a character, object, or idea to represent something else such as the American flag

Correct Answer: B) Symbolism.

11. Identify the correct literary device/technique: "The little boy was a shining star."

Correct Answer: A) Metaphor.

12. Her nose was a needle sharp, with nostrils as small and black as a mouse' eyes.

Correct Answer: D) Caricature.

13. "The story jumped off of the page" is an example of what?

Correct Answer: B) Personification.

14. Choose the term that BEST matches the definition. the perspective from which a story is told

Correct Answer: B) Point of view.

15. How do we define figurative language?

Correct Answer: A) Words or phrases that affect a meaning other than the usual or literal meaning of those words/phrases.

16. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader

Correct Answer: B) Mood.

17. A character who undergoes litter or no inner change; no growth or development; ends the story the same way he/she began

Correct Answer: B) Static Character.

18. The making of "pictures in words"

Correct Answer: A) Imagery.

19. Which of the following answers is a correct example of Characterization in "Convenience Store Woman" by Sayaka Murata?

Correct Answer: A) The author describes the protagonist's obsession with the convenience store.

20. Shakespeare was not unfamiliar with poetry.

Correct Answer: C) Litotes.