This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 203 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 203 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Important hints or clues that an author drops to prepare the reader for what is to come in the story, helps the reader anticipate the outcome A) Characterization. B) Theme. C) Flashback. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Foreshadowing. 2. What does white symbolize in this work? A) Lilies. B) Purity. C) Christ. D) Virtue. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Virtue. 3. Using one or more of the 5 senses to paint a picture in the reader's mind. Example:The night was black as ever, but bright stars lit up the sky in beautiful and varied constellations which were sprinkled across the astronomical landscape.In this example, the experience of the night sky is described in-depth with color (black as ever, bright), shape (varied constellations), and pattern (sprinkled). A) Antagonist. B) Imagery. C) Aside. D) Characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 4. "Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain't got no business doing wrong when he ain't ignorant and knows better." is an example of which literary device? A) Elegy. B) Irony. C) Diction. D) Malapropism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Diction. 5. Which literary device is shown here?628 mille domos adiere locum requiemque petentes, 629 mille domos clausere serae; A) Metaphor. B) Synchysis. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anaphora. 6. It is a discord that can have external aggressors or can even arise from within the self. A) Metaphor. B) Idiom. C) Conflict. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Conflict. 7. Characters, objects, or events that have an abstract, or figurative meaning (stands for something else) Ex. George and Lennie's dream represents their freedom and wealth. A) Images. B) Symbolism. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Symbolism. 8. "As bright as the sun ..... " This is an example of A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 9. What's the definition of personification? A) The giving of human qualities to an animal, object or abstract idea. B) An exaggerated statement used to emphasize a point. C) A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole, or the whole for a part. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The giving of human qualities to an animal, object or abstract idea. 10. "This place is funky, funky, funky" What literary device can you spot here? A) Conjugation. B) Metaphor. C) Epithet. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Conjugation. 11. The dimples dug deeper in the baby's cheeks and the lone milky tooth shone in his mouth. This example is A) Aural imagery. B) Visual imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Visual imagery. 12. A comparison of two unlike items using the words "like" or "as" . A) Metaphor. B) Repetition. C) Simile. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 13. A branch of drama that has sorrowful events happening to the characters in the story. A) Apostrophe. B) Verbal irony. C) Couplet. D) Tragedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tragedy. 14. What is the literary device used to create a repeating pattern of sounds? A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 15. In your eyesI see there's something burning inside youOh, inside you(The Weeknd) A) Onomatopoeia. B) Metaphor. C) Imagery. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 16. I overheard the streets talking about you. A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 17. "He understands the female rage, / Why Eve was lustful and/ Delilah's/ Grim deceit." A) Paradox. B) Symbolism. C) Imagery. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 18. Which set of words rhyme? A) Cat bat. B) Orangetomato. C) Whichway. D) Polishedpans. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cat bat. 19. A word that imitates the sound it respresents:bam, poof, crash A) Inversion. B) Assonance. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 20. "Books are magic" is an example of ..... A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. ← 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