This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 222 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 222 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When an author includes a quotation from another literary piece at the beginning of her work, this is called a(n) ..... A) Epigraph. B) Epitaph. C) Simile. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Epigraph. 2. What type of characterization describes a character through their thoughts, actions, speech, and dialogue? A) Direct characterization. B) Indirect characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Indirect characterization. 3. The main or most important character in a work of literature; the hero A) Antagonist. B) Protagonist. C) Foil. D) 1st person. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Protagonist. 4. Although he has facial deformities, Auggie struggles with being accepted by his classmates. This is an example of ..... A) Internal conflict. B) External conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) External conflict. 5. Which point of view uses the pronouns 'I', 'me', 'we', and 'our'? A) Limited Third-Person. B) Third Person. C) First Person. D) Second Person. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) First Person. 6. What is the tone of this passage:Tim Rutledge of Orlando, Florida, was on his way to Indiana to make a delivery Monday when he drove right into a snowstorm and his brakes froze. In temperatures of 42 degrees below zero with the wind chill, Rutledge pulled over at a truck stop and got under his truck to fix the brakes. While Rutledge was on the ground, the truck shifted and trapped him underneath. A) Passion. B) Fear. C) Sorrow. D) Calm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fear. 7. What three ways describe the Connotation of a word? A) Positive, Negative, Sinusoidal. B) Positive, Neutral, Negative. C) Positive, Neutral, Electric. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Positive, Neutral, Negative. 8. What is the "claim" in an argumentative essay? A) Your argument. B) The argument from the other side. C) Your argument against the other side. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Your argument. 9. An omniscient narrator is most likely ..... A) First person. B) Second person. C) Third person. D) Fourth person. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Third person. 10. The repeating of words or phrases to emphasize a point A) Repetition. B) Alliteration. C) Imagery. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 11. A literary or dramatic character who undergoes little or no inner change; a character who does not grow or develop A) Dynamic character. B) Static character. C) Narrator. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Static character. 12. A figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Irony. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 13. Max stood up like a struck match. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Imagery. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 14. The sisters stood in the stairway spying on their mother A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 15. Sounds, words, or phrases used again and again. A) Refrain. B) Repetition. C) Alliteration. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 16. What literary device is used?"All the world's a stage, and all men and women are merely players." A) Simile. B) Allusion. C) Irony. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 17. All of the following types of conflict are external EXCEPT A) Character vs. self. B) Character vs. character. C) Character vs. nature. D) Character vs. society. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Character vs. self. 18. Names the literary device used here:On the sand banks, the rabbits sat as quietly as little gray, sculptured stones. A) Allusion. B) Metatphor. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 19. What is the following an example of ..... "Yeah I heard it through the grape vine ..... " A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Idiom. 20. ..... like moist black velvet..... A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. ← 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