This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 243 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 243 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Forshadowing is: A) Part of a situation that is the opposite of what you expect. B) Hints about future events. C) Showing events from the past. Reliving a memory. D) Giving human characteristics to non-human things. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hints about future events. 2. What is the correct order of the sequence of events within a story? A) Rising Action, Exposition, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution. B) Climax, Resolution, Rising Action, Falling Action, Exposition. C) Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution. D) Resolution, Falling Action, Climax, Rising Action, Exposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution. 3. What is this an example of? "Did you hear 'bout Ticklish Tom He got ticked by his mom. Wiggled and giggled and fell on the floor. Laughed and rolled right out that door." A) Personification. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 4. My dentist has really bad teeth. A) Alliteration. B) Metaphor. C) Irony. D) Nomenclature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Irony. 5. Occurs when major conflicts begin to be solved: A) Falling Action. B) Climax. C) Resolution. D) Flashback. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Falling Action. 6. Aesthetic Relates to a sense of beauty or an appreciation of artistic expression. A) Author. B) Text. C) Context. D) Audience. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Author. 7. A character who doesn't change throughout the story is a A) Static character. B) Round character. C) Flat character. D) Dynamic character. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Static character. 8. What is revealed about Scrooge's childhood when he is returned to his schoolhouse with the Spirit? A) He was lonely and spent much time lost in books. B) He was his father's favorite. C) He cared only about money. D) He was afraid of ghosts. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He was lonely and spent much time lost in books. 9. Her eyes are shiny A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Alliteration. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 10. Which definition is correct for the following term:Protagonist A) The main character; the character who drives the plot forward. B) The high point in a story; the moment we've all been waiting for. C) The moral or lesson the author communicates through the story's plot. D) The perspective from which a story is told. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The main character; the character who drives the plot forward. 11. If a character has to confront their own morals, which type of conflict is being presented? A) Man vs. Society. B) Man vs. Self. C) Man vs. Fate. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Man vs. Self. 12. BONUS QUESTION:"I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me. " This is an example of a A) Oxymoron. B) Pun. C) Idiom. D) Understatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pun. 13. A recurring feature of a work that develops its theme A) Mood. B) Motif. C) Foreshadowing. D) Plot. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Motif. 14. What is the PURPOSE of DICTION A) To make a comparison to provide further meaning. B) To give the writing a lyrical effect. C) To convey a mood or tone with word choice. D) To invoke an emotion though the senses. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To convey a mood or tone with word choice. 15. This quote is an example of of what type of figurative language, "I'm so hungry I can eat a cow!" A) Irony. B) Allusion. C) Symbolism. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 16. What is the tone of the following text?"I will not!" she shouted. "I will not be left at the mercy of our enemies while you slink away!" (108). A) Angry. B) Pleased. C) Happy. D) Suspicious. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Angry. 17. This literary device repeats a word or phrase over and over for effect A) Repetition. B) Assonance. C) Alliteration. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 18. The couple smiled when their ride arrived. A) Synecdoche. B) Irony. C) Metonymy. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metonymy. 19. "Dinner was awfully good" is an example of what? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Oxymoron. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oxymoron. 20. The boy claimed the plasticknife was so sharp that itcould cut a diamond. A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. ← 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