This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 259 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 259 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What are all the events before the climax called? A) Rising action. B) Falling action. C) Resolution. D) Exposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rising action. 2. A flashback is ..... A) Previous events split up the present happenings. B) Using symbols to represent concepts or idea. C) When the author hints at events yet to happen in a story. D) The same thing again. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Previous events split up the present happenings. 3. Personification is giving human characteristics to objects A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 4. What are archetypes? A) Descriptive words about sight, sound, taste, touch/feel, and smell. B) Patterns in literature. C) Recurrent image, idea or symbol that develops a theme. D) Something that stands for something else. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Patterns in literature. 5. "He lists the disasters, the droughts, the storms, the fires, the encroaching seas that swallowed up so much of the land ..... " A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 6. A contrast between what is expected and what actually happens A) Diction. B) Tone. C) Irony. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Irony. 7. The protagonist of a story is ..... A) The author's use of descriptive language to activate a reader's five senses. B) The series of events in a story. C) When an object represents a broad, hard-to-define idea. D) The main character in the story the "good guy.". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The main character in the story the "good guy.". 8. A reference to someone or something in pop culture is called ..... A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Parallel Structure. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 9. ..... is the use of an object to represent a concept A) Metaphor. B) Symbolism. C) Simile. D) Objectification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Symbolism. 10. A type of fallacy where things are either BLACK or WHITE. There are no shades of gray. A) Straw man. B) Circular reasoning. C) Either-or. D) Hasty generalization. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Either-or. 11. What is the theme of a literary work? A) A person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something. B) A central message, idea, or concern expressed in a literary work. C) The main problem in the story. D) The time and place in which a story is set. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A central message, idea, or concern expressed in a literary work. 12. Series of events that lead up to the highest point of intensity in the story. A) Rising action. B) Exposition. C) Climax. D) Point of view. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rising action. 13. Which literary device is shown here? 5 ..... misero quod omnis A) Assonance. B) Multi-connectors. C) Rhetorical question. D) Anastrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 14. An author or speaker purposely and obviously exaggerates to an extreme. It is used for emphasis or as a way of making a description more creative and humorous. It is important to note that hyperbole is not meant to be taken literally; the audience knows it's an exaggeration.Example:That suitcase weighs a ton! A) Allusion. B) Alliteration. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. E) Aside. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 15. The repetition of initial consonant sounds used especially in poetry to emphasize and link words as well as to create pleasing, musical sound A) Characterization. B) Dialect. C) Alliteration. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 16. True or false:a metaphor is a comparison that uses "like" or "as" . A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 17. A character who illuminates the qualities of another character by means of contrast. A) Antihero. B) Foil. C) Archetype. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foil. 18. Which literary device is used in the sentence:'The wind whispered through the trees'? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 19. The man could swim like a A) Turtle. B) Dinosaur. C) Burghers. D) Fish. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fish. 20. ..... have an inherent existence in any given literary piece and are extensively employed by writers to develop a literary piece e.g. plot, setting, narrative structure, characters, mood, theme, moral etc. Writers simply cannot create his desired work without including ..... A) Literary Elements. B) Literary Techniques. 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