This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 263 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 263 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the term for a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor? A) Irony. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 2. In the poem, "halfway home #2" Jackie wishes she had more time to do what? A) Explain her life in the city to her grandmother. B) Talk about her father. C) Make new friends. D) Describe her new home. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Explain her life in the city to her grandmother. 3. Epigraphs A) Reference to famous people, places, events, or ideas in history or literature. B) Quotations used at the beginning of a speech to hint at the speech's theme. C) When the same words or phrases are used 2 or more time. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quotations used at the beginning of a speech to hint at the speech's theme. 4. When there's a punctuation mark within a line of poetry to indicate a pause A) Tone. B) Allusion. C) Cesura. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cesura. 5. Brian was a wall, bouncing every tennis ball back over the net. This is an example of ..... ? A) Allusion. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 6. If I don't get that smart phone I will die! A) Hyperbole. B) Imagery. C) Idiom. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 7. The distinctive handling of language by an author. A) Style. B) Irony. C) Allusion. D) Figurative language. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Style. 8. Man vs. man can be described as ..... A) A fight. B) Internal conflict. C) Two male characters that oppose each other. D) Any two characters that oppose each other. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Any two characters that oppose each other. 9. Which of the following is an example of personification? a) The wind whispered through the trees. b) The wind is blowing. c) The wind is strong. A) The wind is peaceful. B) The wind is blowing. C) The wind whispered through the trees. D) The wind is strong. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The wind whispered through the trees. 10. The use of extreme exaggeration to provoke strong emotion from readers. A) Oxymoron. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 11. His tears were a river flowing down his face. A) Repetition. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 12. Which one describes a HYPERBOLE? A) An understatement. B) An Exaggeration. C) A mediocre description. D) A normal Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An Exaggeration. 13. Which literary device is the repetition of the same sound at the beginning of words? A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 14. Cry me a river A) Hyperbole. B) Oxymoron. C) Simile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 15. In Hercules, the audience knows that baby Hercules did not drink the last drop of potion. Hades does not know this and thinks that Hercules is mortal now. This is an example of what ..... A) Allusion. B) Allegory. C) Dramatic Irony. D) Climax. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dramatic Irony. 16. I stand in the middle of the aisle a wounded Zebra in a National Geographic special. A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 17. Mike likes his bike A) Dissonance. B) Assonance. C) Dramatic Irony. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 18. Morpheus' description of Odysseus: "He studied his face-the wide, grooved brow, the sunken eyes, the red hair, the jutting chin" (3). A) Hyperbole. B) Imagery. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 19. " ..... and there's no pretending you are anywhere but in a 'concrete jungle' as my grandfather says." -"Raymond's Run "concrete jungle" is an example of: A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 20. To sing, play, or sound or speak with tremulous, vibrating sounds. A) Cavern. B) Trill. C) Cahoots. D) Roust. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Trill. ← 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