This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 269 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 269 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In the sentence 'He ran as fast as a cheetah.', what literary device is being used? A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 2. Character versus self is an ..... conflict A) Internal. B) External. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Internal. 3. This part of the plot between climax and resolution: A) Falling action. B) Resolution. C) Rising Action. D) Conclusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Falling action. 4. The direct "window" into a piece of work. A) Point of view. B) Flashback. C) Flashforward. D) Narrator. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Narrator. 5. I started buttoning up the shirt. It about swallowed me. A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Irony. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 6. If you're writing prose that contains dialogue, when must you begin a new paragraph? A) Whenever a different character begins speaking. B) At the end of every sentence. C) Before every speech tag. D) After every comma. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Whenever a different character begins speaking. 7. When the reader expects one thing, but the opposite occurs A) Dramatic irony. B) Foreshadowing. C) External conflict. D) Situational irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Situational irony. 8. The corn stalks stretched up to the sky, yearning for it to rain.This is an example of ..... A) Paradox. B) Oxymoron. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 9. How does dialogue impact a story? A) I helps us understand the message that the author is trying to teach us. B) It helps us understand the character and can add meaning to a story. C) It tells us what that characters are saying. D) It tells us when a character doesn't like someone or something. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It helps us understand the character and can add meaning to a story. 10. "Yet he held his hold (though he was sundry fathoms under water:till he was hauled up by the same rope to the brim of the water" A) Indirect Characterization. B) Direct Characterization. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Indirect Characterization. 11. What is an omniscient narrator? A) Someone who has access to multiple character thoughts and feelings. B) The narrator credibility is under question. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Someone who has access to multiple character thoughts and feelings. 12. The glaring sun made the trees glisten in the forest is an example of A) A symbol. B) Imagery. C) Alliteration. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 13. "The leaves danced as they fell from the trees" is an example of ..... A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 14. Parables and fables are very interesting to read, because you will learn ..... from them. A) Topic. B) Review. C) Moral/lesson. D) Immoral. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Moral/lesson. 15. Descriptive language that appeal to the senses A) Irony. B) Imagery. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 16. Allusion definition..... A) A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without using like or as. B) The mental pictures made up of all the five senses. C) The mention of a famous or important person that is not explained in the book because the reader should know who that person is. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The mention of a famous or important person that is not explained in the book because the reader should know who that person is. 17. Which is an example of an analogy? A) How a doctor diagnoses diseases is like how a detective investigates crimes. B) Your voice is music to my ears. C) You are brave like a lion. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) How a doctor diagnoses diseases is like how a detective investigates crimes. 18. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot A) Foreshadowing. B) Tone. C) Mood. D) Setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foreshadowing. 19. "BAM" is an example of A) Onomatopoeia. B) Paradox. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 20. A person, place or thing which has meaning in itself but represents or stands for something else A) Irony. B) Symbol. C) Theme. D) Flashback. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Symbol. ← 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