This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 264 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 264 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Paval is the school's head custodian. We see him sweeping the hallways, wiping down tables in the cafeteria, and mowing the lawn in the fields. A) Paval is a flat character. B) Paval is a round character. C) Paval is a static character. D) Paval is a dynamic character. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paval is a flat character. 2. We can learn a lot about a character if we pay attention to what the character is thinking and feeling.This type of characterization falls under which category? A) Looks. B) Effects on others. C) Actions. D) Thoughts. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thoughts. 3. Which literary device is used to describe something by comparing it to something else without using 'like' or 'as'? A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 4. True or False:Stories usually have multiple settings. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 5. What is a repetition of words, phrases or clauses at the start of successive clauses? A) Anaphora. B) Juxtaposition. C) Oxymoron. D) Semantic field. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anaphora. 6. Which one of these words is not a way to say persuade A) Urge. B) Convince. C) Report. D) Influence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Report. 7. Which literary device does the author use in lines 23 and 34? A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 8. A word the sounds like it's meaning A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 9. What figure of speech is presentin this line? Plangere nuda meisconabar pectora palmis. A) Simile. B) Synchesis. C) Multi-connectors. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Synchesis. 10. Giving or attributing human qualities to animals or inanimate objects A) Anthropomorphism. B) Zoomorphism. C) Patronizing. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 11. Tommy was caught in the bathroom jerking the gherkin. A) Euphemism. B) Metaphor. C) Irony. D) Sarcasm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Euphemism. 12. A humorous use of a word or phrase that has more than one meaning (or two similarly spelled words that sound alike) A) Stereotype. B) Pun. C) POV. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pun. 13. Spicy, tangy, salty, sweet, sour, bitter A) Smell. B) Touch. C) Taste. D) Hear. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Taste. 14. I'm so tired I could sleep for one hundred years, is an example of what? A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 15. Which text evidence best describes the develop of his theme? Ambition Over Adversity by Tupac Shakur Take one's adversity Learn from their misfortune Learn from their pain Believe in something Believe in yourself Turn adversity into ambition Now blossom into wealth A) "Take one's adversity". B) "Learn from their misfortune, Believe in something". C) "Believe in yourself, Believe in something". D) "Take one's adversity, Turn adversity into ambition". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "Take one's adversity, Turn adversity into ambition". 16. Banquo's son..... A) Duncan. B) Macduff. C) Fleance. D) Malcolm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fleance. 17. In one of Aesop's fables, four animals go hunting under the assumption that they will split their prize equally, but the lion, the most powerful animal, takes more than the other members of the group.What is the meaning of the allusion in the sentence below?My older brother takes the lion's share of the space in our bedroom. A) An equal amount. B) A tiny bit. C) An even split. D) The largest portion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The largest portion. 18. Any person appearing in a work of fiction is called a ..... A) Allegory. B) People. C) Character. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Character. 19. How can a person run slowly? A) Oxymoron. B) Idiom. C) Euphemism. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron. 20. A comparison of two different things using "like" or "as" A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 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