This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 233 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 233 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How does Scrooge feel about seeing his past? A) He isn't really interested. B) He is excited, but then becomes very sad. C) He doesn't remember any of it. D) He is bored and unhappy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He is excited, but then becomes very sad. 2. "Her smile is like a ray of sunshine." This sentence is an example of: A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Diction. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 3. Her blue eyes were as bright as the Sun, blue as the sky, but soft as silk. A) Simile. B) Imagery. C) Idiom. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 4. An incident or event that took place (back) in the past. A) Foreshadowing. B) Flashback. C) Satire. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flashback. 5. A character who experiences some change in personality or attitude from the beginning of the narrative to the end. A) Dynamic Character. B) Static Character. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dynamic Character. 6. It was so hot outside my tennis shoes melted on the sidewalk. A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 7. What is the characterization? A) The perspective from which a story is told. B) How a person is depicted in a story. C) The set of events and actions that occur in a literary work. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) How a person is depicted in a story. 8. The student hissed at them and slithered out of the room. A) Oxymoron. B) Juxtaposition. C) Zoomorphism. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Zoomorphism. 9. ..... is part of the Plot Structure where all the problems are worked out. A) Plot Structure. B) Exposition. C) Resolution. D) Rising Action. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Resolution. 10. A literary work that uses the familiar spoken form of language, sentence after sentence. A) Comedy. B) Suspense. C) Prose. D) Tragic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prose. 11. True or False:Tone refers to the readers feelings about a text and mood refers to the authors attitude towards their subject matter. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 12. The conclusion of the action-how the story comes to an end A) Exposition. B) Falling action. C) Resolution. D) Climax. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Resolution. 13. Define:noun A) Modifies a noun or pronoun by describing, identifying, or quantifying words (ex. fuzzy, colorful, five, big). B) Asserts something about the subject of the sentence and express actions, events, or states of being. C) Replaces another noun or pronoun. D) Modify a verb. E) Person, animal, place, thing, and abstract idea. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Person, animal, place, thing, and abstract idea. 14. Read the following and determine if the author used direct or indirect characterization. "You have this, " Mrs. Miller encouraged the students like she always had. She was known by everyone as the "School's Cheerleader" . Having no children, she loved her students as though they were her own flesh and blood. A) Direct characterization. B) Indirect characteriation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Direct characterization. 15. (identify red, italicized portion) All day yesterday they had read in class about the sun. About how like a lemon it was A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 16. What does Pathos refer to in rhetorical devices? A) Appealing to a person's moral character. B) Appealing to a person's emotions. C) Appealing to a person's logic/reasoning. D) Comparison w/a concept. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Appealing to a person's emotions. 17. The bees buzzed around the flowers. A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Allusion. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 18. She ate seven sandwiches on a sunny Sunday.What is the literary device used in the sentence? A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 19. What is the following an example of ..... "And I'm gonna miss you like a child misses their blanket ..... " A) Metaphor. B) Idiom. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 20. Which type of characterization shows things that give hints about the personality of the character? A) STEAL method. B) Direct Characterization. C) Acronym. D) Indirect Characterization. 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