This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 218 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 218 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A third person in a play or story that has no physical being but witnesses all events and is all-knowing. A) Omniscient Narrator. B) Benevolent Narrator. C) Omnipotent Narrator. D) Third Person Narrator. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Omniscient Narrator. 2. Which of the following means: "on the alert; watchful?" A) Infatuated. B) Enthralled. C) Vigilant. D) Grimaced. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vigilant. 3. The life lesson/message of the poem A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Theme. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theme. 4. "The couch has two personalities:'Melinda inhaling pepperoni and mushroom' and 'No one ever eats in the family room, no ma'am" ' (15) A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 5. Which bias is telling only part of a story; supporting one side and ignoring another perspective? (Also called cherry picking) A) Spin. B) Slant. C) Sham. D) Saturation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Slant. 6. Read the following sentence from "Thank You, Mr. Falker" ."Almost as if it were magic, or as if light had poured into her brain, the words and sentences started to take shape on the page as they never had before."This sentence includes a(n) ..... A) Idiom. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 7. What is the tone of the following sentence? "'Here we go again, ' he moaned, as he watched the other team score yet another goal." A) Joy. B) Fury. C) Excitement. D) Frustration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Frustration. 8. When a character has a conflict with someone else A) Man vs nature. B) Man vs man. C) Man vs self. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Man vs man. 9. Two opposite ideas in the same sentence (ie "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ..... ") A) Allusion. B) Rhetorical Question. C) Loaded language. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Antithesis. 10. What is a dramatic foil? A) Text directly states the character of a person. B) Person/force against main character. C) Characters who contrast each other. D) Main character. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Characters who contrast each other. 11. "Four out of Five Dentists Recommend Trident Chewing Gum" is an example of which fallacy? A) Bandwagon. B) Hasty Generalization. C) Appeal to Authority. D) Appeal to Popularity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Appeal to Authority. 12. Employs a narrator who tells a story without describing any character's thoughts, opinions, or feelings; instead, it gives an objective, unbiased point of view. A) 3rd person limited pov. B) 3rd person omniscient pov. C) 3rd person object pov. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3rd person object pov. 13. The emotional atmosphere or ambiance evoked in the reader by a literary work. A) Mood. B) Characterization. C) Tone. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mood. 14. Simile or Metaphor? The assignment was a breeze. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 15. This is the leading character of a story. They can be either good or bad. A) Protagonist. B) Antagonist. C) Dynamic. D) Round. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Protagonist. 16. I had to walk uphill 15 miles to go to school-both ways! A) Allusion. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 17. The label on the inside of a bathing suit reads, "Dry clean only. Do not get wet." A) Verbal. B) Situational. C) Dramatic. D) Not Ironic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Situational. 18. Writing speech exactly as it sounds, accents and slang included, is A) Dialect. B) Dialogue. C) Simile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dialect. 19. "Her long hair is an ocean of waves" is an example of ..... A) Personification. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 20. In the sentence 'The thunder roared angrily', what literary device is being used? A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. ← 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