This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 268 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 268 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Hints that something is going to happen in the storyEx. George tells Lennie in the opening chapter that if he gets into trouble to go back and hide in the brush by the river. A) Flashback. B) Personification. C) Foreshadowing. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Foreshadowing. 2. Turning point in the story A) Exposition. B) Falling action. C) Rising action. D) Climax. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Climax. 3. She was as smart as a dictionary. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Imagery. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 4. What literary device is present below? Christian bent the ball like Messi. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Paradox. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 5. What literary device is used in the phrase 'time flies'?a) Imageryb) Similec) Metaphord) Personification A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 6. The part of the plot that gives necessary background information. A) Exposition. B) Rising Action. C) Climax. D) Falling Action. E) Resolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Exposition. 7. Events that result from the decision of the climax A) Rising Action. B) Falling Action. C) Exposition. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Falling Action. 8. The snow danced around in the wind. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Breezy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 9. From the The Giver:When some is killed it is called "release." A) Euphemism. B) Imagery. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Euphemism. 10. What effect does hyperbole create? A) Boredom. B) Mental images. C) Headache. D) Emphasis or humour. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Emphasis or humour. 11. "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers." A) Polysyndeton. B) Anaphora. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Polysyndeton. 12. This figure of speech compares two unlike things using like or as to help make the comparison. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 13. Which literary device is shown here?58 bracchiaque intendens prendique et prendere ceertans A) Simile. B) Hyperbaton. C) Polyptoton. D) Litotes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Polyptoton. 14. A manner of speaking that is informal and uses phrases or words associated with a particular area. A) Common. B) Slang. C) Colloquial. D) Dialect. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Colloquial. 15. Thomas wants to fulfill his promises before he pass in some nocturnal darkness. A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Euphemism. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Euphemism. 16. Fireflies fly face first into the fence. What literary device are they using here? A) Imagery. B) Alliteration. C) Rhythm. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 17. The results or effects of the climax A) Tone. B) Setting. C) Falling Action. D) Point of View. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Falling Action. 18. What is the definition for Person or Narrative Perspective? A) The act of hinting at or setting up a situation, event or action that will later be extremely important in the narrative but doesn't seem important at the time. B) This is essentially a 'story within a story', wherein the main narrative is being told, remembered, etc. by someone in the 'outside narrative. C) First, second or third person narratives are usually categorised by their use of "I" , "you" , or "they" respectively. D) This describes the way in which a narrative flows or is told. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) First, second or third person narratives are usually categorised by their use of "I" , "you" , or "they" respectively. 19. "Mama in the kitchen feeding clothes into the wringer washer and clothes rolling out all stiff and twisted like flat paper." ..... "My Lucy Friend Who Smells Like Corn" "Stiff and twisted like flat paper" is an example of: A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 20. "Men increase, women increase, youth increase, boys increase in the ranks of the breadwinners; but no contingent so doubles from census period to census period (both by percent and by count of heads), as does the contingent of girls between twelve and twenty years of age." A) Alliteration. B) Imagery. C) Repetition. D) Irony. 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