This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 228 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 228 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What type of noun gives a general term for a person, place, or thing? A) Concrete noun. B) Compound noun. C) Collective noun. D) Common noun. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Common noun. 2. Read the sentence and choose the onomatopoeia. Kristen's brother is the coolest because he can burp the alphabet. A) Brother. B) Alphabet. C) Kristen. D) Burp. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Burp. 3. MAMA:We ain't no business people, Ruth. We just plain working folks. This text shows an example of ..... A) Point of view. B) Diction. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Diction. 4. "You can have sarcasm without verbal irony" A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 5. 3rd person point of view (POV) is ..... A) When the narrator is not part of the story. B) When the narrator is part of the story. C) The series of events in the story. D) Hints or clues about future events in a story. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) When the narrator is not part of the story. 6. In the sentence 'The sun kissed my cheeks and the wind whispered through the trees.', what literary device is being used? A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 7. What is this an example of? The flowers were fluttering and dancing in the wind. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 8. A Literary device contains A) A main idea the author uses to enhance their writing. B) Characterization of a text the author uses to enhance their writing. C) Techniques, styles and strategies an author uses to enhance their writing. D) A photograph the author uses to enhance their writing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Techniques, styles and strategies an author uses to enhance their writing. 9. What is the correct term? A) Literacy Devices. B) Literature Devices. C) Literally Devices. D) Legitmately Devices. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Literature Devices. 10. Define:homophone A) One of two or more words pronounced alike but different in meaning (flour and flower, our & hour). B) Identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words (ex. "It beats as it sweeps as it cleans. "-Slogan for Hoover vacuum cleaners). C) The repetition of an initial consonant sound (ex. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.). D) Broadly, the repetition of consonant sounds; more specifically, the repetition of the final consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words (aka-half rhyme) (ex. Pitter Patter; rif raf; last but not least ). E) Word composed of two or more words (ex. butterfly, football, playground). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) One of two or more words pronounced alike but different in meaning (flour and flower, our & hour). 11. Identify the literary device'Montag sat like a carved white stone' p. 104 A) Metaphor. B) Symbol. C) Imagery. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 12. Which type of imagery is associated with the sense of smell? A) Kinetic. B) Olfactory. C) Gustatory. D) Tactile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Olfactory. 13. Candies with nougat centers as white as snow A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 14. Patrick Star and Gilligan are actors whose are recognizable and well known is an example of a ..... character. A) Dynamic. B) Stock. C) Flat. D) Round. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stock. 15. Adjectives are used in writing to ..... A) Add more words. B) Make your writing more interesting to the reader. C) Make the teacher happy. D) Tell more details about the verb. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Make your writing more interesting to the reader. 16. Which of the following is used in the sentence? Sarah's seven siblings like to sing. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. E) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 17. What is the complication? A) There are no complications. B) One of many problems in the story. C) The problem that begins the story but not the only one. D) The only problem in the story. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The problem that begins the story but not the only one. 18. Something entirely different happens from what audience may be expecting, or the final outcome is opposite to what the audience is expecting. A) Paradox. B) Situational irony. C) Verbal irony. D) Dramatic irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Situational irony. 19. Invention of some force that miraculously appears to lead to the resolution A) Foreshadowing. B) Flashback. C) Deus ex machina. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Deus ex machina. 20. A grouping of 3 nouns, clauses, or phrases A) Growing tricolon. B) Parallel structure. C) Repetition. D) Chiasmus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Growing tricolon. ← 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