This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 265 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 265 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Telling a quiet group, "don't speak all at once" is an example of ..... A) Idiom. B) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irony. 2. Reversal of word order to create emphasis A) Allusion. B) Hyperbole. C) Inversion. D) Epithet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Inversion. 3. Which of the following phrases has a more NEGATIVE connotation? A) A pushy leader. B) A charismatic leader. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A pushy leader. 4. I'm takin this horse by the reins makin'Redcoats redder with bloodstainsWhich device is NOT present? A) Imagery. B) Metaphor. C) End rhyme. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 5. Place and time. A) Setting. B) Theme. C) Narrative Poem. D) Climax. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Setting. 6. The star was a flashlight guiding me home. A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 7. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words, such as "doubting dreaming dreams ..... " A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 8. Your suitcase weighs a ton. This is an example of what type of figurative language? A) Alliteration. B) Hyperbole. C) Analogy. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 9. Which of the following is: "descriptive or figurative language in a literary work; the use of language to create sensory impressions?" A) Setting. B) Characterization. C) Point of view. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 10. Third person limited omniscient is when ..... A) The story uses the pronoun "you" to address the reader. B) The story is being told directly by the narrator from their perspective. C) The narrator exists outside the story but still knows every character's thoughts, feelings, and motivations. D) The narrator exists outside the knows the thoughts, feelings, and motivations of only one character. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The narrator exists outside the knows the thoughts, feelings, and motivations of only one character. 11. An antagonist is a character that ..... A) Causes conflict. B) Provides comic relief. C) Is the main character. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Causes conflict. 12. The teacher saying "recess time" was music to my ears. A) Metaphor. B) Idiom. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 13. This is the set of ideas associated with a word in addition to its explicit meaning. A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Connotation. D) Denotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Connotation. 14. What are the sequence of events in a story called? A) Point of view. B) Plot. C) Setting. D) Characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plot. 15. What is a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead, called? A) A poem. B) An elegy. C) An euphemism. D) Couplets. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An elegy. 16. A comment said only to the audience; the other characters on stage do not hear the comment. A) Monologue. B) Aside. C) Foil. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aside. 17. Grandma Sands laughed just like the Wicked Witch of the West. A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. E) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 18. To evoke means: A) To bring to mind; call forth. B) To be without flaw. C) To study. D) To think positively. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To bring to mind; call forth. 19. A story takes place in Ola, AR during 2016. This is an example of A) Conflict. B) Point of view. C) Setting. D) Characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Setting. 20. Conjoining contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence') A) Metaphor. B) Oxymoron. C) Onomatopoeia. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron. ← 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