This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 215 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 215 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Uses an image, character, object to represent something more than or beyond itself. A) Setting. B) Idiom. C) Symbol. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbol. 2. Which is the correct end mark for this sentence? Open your history book A) Period. B) Question mark. C) Exclamation point. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Period. 3. The appearance of scenes or objects that aren't really there. A) Trill. B) Eddies. C) Mirage. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mirage. 4. This literary device compares two things, without using the words as/like. A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 5. "Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me" is an example of ..... A) Simile. B) Metonymy. C) Personification. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 6. Determine if the sentence contains a simile or a metaphor. Her hands were as cold as ice after the hayride. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 7. This is the use of words that imitate sounds. A) Idiom. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Pun. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 8. Repeats the same words or phrases A) Repetition. B) Idiom. C) Mood. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 9. The person or thing that causes the conflict for the protagonist A) Antagonist. B) Dynamic character. C) Round character. D) Static character. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antagonist. 10. This is a joke based on the interplay of homophones-words with the same pronunciation but different meanings. A) Idiom. B) Allusion. C) Hyperbole. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pun. 11. The underlying meaning or message of a text is a A) Theme. B) Personification. C) Setting. D) Narrator. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme. 12. What is it called when literature references anything famous? A) Allusion. B) Pun. C) Verbal irony. D) Point of view. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 13. What is an anachronism? A) An act that leads to anarchy. B) Something that has to do with acrobatics. C) Something that is placed in a time to which it does not belong. D) Something that is placed into a time to which it does belong. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Something that is placed in a time to which it does not belong. 14. We could hear the squeal of his tires as he drove away fast. A) Hyperbole. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Repetition. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 15. What is the purpose of imagery in writing? A) To engage the reader by changing points of view multiple times. B) To make the writing more interesting and help readers understand what is being described. C) To excite the reader by using different writing methods. D) To show the difference between dynamic and static character types. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To make the writing more interesting and help readers understand what is being described. 16. Which literary device is shown here? A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Chiasmus. D) Syncope/syncopation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Syncope/syncopation. 17. Hint as to what happens next; suggestions or warnings about events to come are dropped. A) Irony. B) Foreshadowing. C) Allusion. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foreshadowing. 18. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the King's horses, And all the King's men Couldn't put Humpty together again! A) Alliteration. B) Free verse. C) Rhyme. D) Limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme. 19. Which literary device is used to give human characteristics to non-human things? A) Personification. B) Oxymoron. C) Alliteration. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 20. A narrative device that interrupts the chronological order of a story to depict events that occurred earlier. A) Foreshadowing. B) Flashback. C) Symbolism. D) Plot. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flashback. ← 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