This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 241 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 241 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Repeated sound of the first letter in a series of words, or repetition of the same letter sounds within words/phrases A) Repetition. B) Mood. C) Idiom. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 2. I close my eyes so I can see. A) Juxtaposition. B) Paradox. C) Oxymoron. D) Verbal Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paradox. 3. The people watching snow white know that the apple is poisoned but snow white doesn't know is A) Dramatic irony. B) Situational irony. C) Verbal irony. D) Conceit. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dramatic irony. 4. When a sentence uses words that start with the same letter. (Ex:Sally sells seashells by the seashore.) A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 5. Which one of the literary devices is used in this line? "I am silver and exact." A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Rhetorical Question. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 6. "He's gonna make me some invisible ink, and I'm gonna write to Dill in it." -TKAM, Ch 9 A) Euphemism. B) Malapropism. C) Oxymoron. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oxymoron. 7. This literary device compares two things (not to be taken literally) A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Assonance. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 8. She was a quiet mouse reading in the corner of the class. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 9. What 2 components are included in the exposition? A) Characters, dialogue. B) Narrator, conflict. C) Characters, resolution. D) Characters, setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Characters, setting. 10. What is the term?giving an object or animal attributes that are human (i.e. feelings, thoughts, or attitudes) A) Juxtaposition. B) Assonance. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 11. A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is mean A) Irony. B) Dramatic irony. C) Verbal irony. D) Sarcasm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Verbal irony. 12. Identify the literary device in the sentence 'The darkness of the night was a blanket of secrets.' A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 13. Identify the literary device in the sentence 'Her eyes were shining stars'. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 14. Which of the following is: "A character whose personality doesn't change over the course of a work" A) Indirection characterization. B) Direct characterization. C) Static character. D) Dynamic character. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Static character. 15. A way of speaking that is characteristic of a certain social group or of inhabitants of a certain geographical area A) Dialect. B) Dialogue. C) Diction. D) Dynamic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dialect. 16. When the narrator uses pronouns like "you" A) First person. B) Second person. C) 3rd person limited. D) 3rd person omniscient. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Second person. 17. True or false? An element of Gothic literature could involve satire. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 18. Refers to the person telling the story A) Rule of Three. B) Personification. C) Point of View. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Point of View. 19. "The wind whispered its secrets to me" A) Irony. B) Characterization. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 20. This is an example of what kind of literary device:"They are as quiet as a mouse." A) Metaphor. B) Imagery. C) Idiom. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 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