This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 254 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 254 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The literal meaning A) Descriptive language. B) Denotation. C) Connotation. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Denotation. 2. A narrator whose knowledge is limited to one character A) Limited narrator. B) Point of view. C) Irony. D) Protagonist. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Limited narrator. 3. Poem made of 3 lines where the first line has 5 syllables, the second line has 7 syllables, and the third line has 5 syllables. It has no rhyme scheme or meter. A) Narrative. B) Free verse. C) Limerick. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Haiku. 4. Verisimilitude A) The atmosphere in a literary work or the attitude the author puts in a literary work. B) An object, person, or place that has a meaning in itself and that also stands for something larger than itself, usually an idea or concept; some concrete thing which represents an abstraction. C) The central or dominant idea behind the story; the most important aspect that emerges from how the book treats its subject. D) The use of realistic elements to make literature appear truthful or accurate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The use of realistic elements to make literature appear truthful or accurate. 5. Epics open in medias res or in the middle of the action, and we learn of past events through flashbacks. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 6. "I'm a BARGAIN shopper" vs. "I'm a CHEAPSKATE." A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Connotation. D) Denotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Connotation. 7. A figure of speech that references a person, place, or event-usually other work of art A) Irony. B) Foreshadowing. C) Allusion. D) Flashback. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 8. What literary device is used in the phrase 'time flies'? A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 9. This literary device is when the author gives hints as to what's going to happen later in the story. A) Flashbacks. B) Allegory. C) Foreshadowing. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Foreshadowing. 10. Series of events leading to the climax. During this time, the tension builds as the conflict becomes more evident. A) Foreshadowing. B) Climax. C) Rising action. D) Resolution/falling action. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rising action. 11. The author's attitude toward the subject and the emotional response the story creates for the reader. A) Tone and atmosphere. B) Tone. C) Atmosphere. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone and atmosphere. 12. Which word is the verb in the sentence? The students talked loudly in class. A) Students. B) Loudly. C) Class. D) Talked. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Talked. 13. All the events that lead to the climax of a story are called the ..... A) Conflict. B) Exposition. C) Falling action. D) Rising action. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rising action. 14. The struggle that the main character faces in the book is called what? A) Internal. B) Theme. C) Conflict. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Conflict. 15. "The wall stared at me silently" is an example of what type of literary tool? A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Metonymy. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 16. Last straw A) Actions or communications need more than one person. B) To go to bed. C) Do or say something exactly right. D) The final problem in a series of problems. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The final problem in a series of problems. 17. What literary device is the following? The light of the fire is a sight A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 18. What is euphony? A) The unpleasant and jarring presentation of sounds in a literary work. B) The pleasant and mellifluous presentation of sounds in a literary work. C) The rhythmic and repetitive presentation of sounds in a literary work. D) The silent and muted presentation of sounds in a literary work. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The pleasant and mellifluous presentation of sounds in a literary work. 19. "The beginning of the end" is an example of a/an: A) Colloquialism. B) Irony. C) Allegory. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Paradox. 20. When the writer gives a non-living/object or thing(s) human like characteristics is? A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Anlaogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. ← 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