This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 209 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 209 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "Ben Shapiro is an alt-right sage without the rage." is an example of ..... A) Mind reading. B) Mudslinging. C) Spin. D) Flawed logic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mudslinging. 2. This literary device is an exaggerated statement for effect A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 3. Luis regretted that he had not finished his homework and would get a zero for the assignment. A) Internal Conflict. B) External Conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Internal Conflict. 4. Read the following passage and determine what the word ..... tarnishing ..... means:One night, as I watched my newborn son sleep, studying his beautiful face, I suddenly became filled with fear. I was convinced I would screw him up-that all my problems would wash over him, tarnishing his perfect soul. Strangely, while panicking about my son's impending doom, Dad popped to mind. I sat there in the dark, surrounded by the soothing sounds and smells of my baby's room, and I thought of how Dad must have felt when I was born. I knew at that moment that he never intended to hurt me. I realized that he loved me just as I loved my son. I knew that he had done the best he could, even if it wasn't always very good. A) Cleansing. B) Dirtying. C) Polishing. D) Reconciling. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dirtying. 5. Which literary device is used in the following sentence: "The moonlight danced on the water" ? A) Alliteration. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 6. "The afternoon sun sliced through the cracks of barn walls." What literary device is used? A) Consonance. B) Metaphor. C) Allusion. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 7. Which sentence is written correctly? A) It is very hot in summer. B) I go to the beach in sammar. C) I like swimming in the see. D) I feel habby there. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It is very hot in summer. 8. An apron of steam A) Metaphor. B) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 9. The series of events that make up your story. A) Elements. B) Plot. C) Characters. D) Point of View. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plot. 10. When a narrator who is not involved in the story tells the story; this is an example of ..... POV A) First person. B) Second person. C) Third person. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Third person. 11. Which literary device uses descriptive language to create a picture in the reader's mind? A) Allusion. B) Foreshadowing. C) Epiphany. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 12. The boy was dying to get a new school bag. A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 13. The basic information needed to understand the story A) Resolution. B) Rising action. C) Exposition. D) Falling action. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exposition. 14. Read the metaphor below and determine the two things being compared:Her mind opened and sailed onto the gentle breezes of the ocean. Distractions tugged and thoughts tailed her. She almost crashed, but the tightly held string of love held her safely. A) Mind, ocean. B) Mind, kite. C) Ocean, bird. D) Love, thoughts. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mind, kite. 15. A figure of speech that makes reference to a well-known person, event, or place is called ..... A) Personification. B) Illusion. C) Imagery. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 16. Words whose meaning is NOT exactly as stated A) Literal language. B) Figurative language. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Figurative language. 17. Which literary device is this:the living dead A) Paradox. B) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron. 18. Identify the literary device in the following sentence:Cathy kicked the caramel-colored kangaroo. A) Symbol. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 19. A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont, who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. The words in BLUE are an example of A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Allusion. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 20. "I would Love you ten years before the flood, And you should, if you please, refuseTill the conversion of the Jews." (To his Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell). Identify the literary device used in this line. A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. ← 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