This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 270 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 270 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A scene set in a time earlier than the main story; a memory A) Simile. B) Flashback. C) Evidence. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flashback. 2. IronyIn the movie, "Toy Story", human characters are not aware that the toys speak and move but the audience is. A) Verbal irony. B) Dramatic irony. C) Situational irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dramatic irony. 3. What is a similie A) A comparison that doesn't use like or as. B) An exaggeration of what you really mean. C) A comparison using like or as. D) Use of figurative language to create visual representations of actions, objects and ideas in our mind. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A comparison using like or as. 4. Which literary device is used to create a picture in the reader's mind by evoking responses from all of the reader's senses? A) Alliteration. B) Metaphor. C) Imagery. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 5. Any element, subject, idea or concept that is constantly present through the entire body of literature. A) Motif. B) Symbol. C) Theme. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Motif. 6. Hints to readers something that is to follow or appear later in the story A) Irony. B) Dramatic irony. C) Foreshadowing. D) Characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Foreshadowing. 7. "An oxymoron is the same thing as a paradox." A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 8. Considered the main character of a story A) Protagonist. B) Antagonist. C) Hyperbole. D) Characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Protagonist. 9. Important hints or clues that an author drops to prepare the reader for what is to come. A) Climax. B) Plot. C) Flashback. D) Foreshadow. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Foreshadow. 10. "The road was a ribbon of moonlight, " A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 11. A contrast between what is expected and what actually exist A) Humor. B) Irony. C) Characterization. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irony. 12. "Oh! What fine luck I have!" A) Allusion. B) Metaphor. C) Irony. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Irony. 13. "Bob is as brave as a lion" is an example of what literary device? A) Metonymy. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 14. The author's attitude that is expressed by their WORD CHOICE. A) Mood. B) Connotation. C) Denotation. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tone. 15. "The knock on the door was an alien sound." A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 16. The way the reader feels when reading a story is called ..... A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Setting. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mood. 17. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of two or more nearby words. A) Refrain. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 18. When two or more words in a sentence share the same beginning consonant sound A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 19. " ..... but a singular sense of impending calamity, that should indeed have served me as a warning, drove me onward." This quote from H.G. Wells' The Time Machine is an example of what literary device? A) Foreshadowing. B) Allusion. C) Symbolism. D) Situational Irony. E) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foreshadowing. 20. ANIMAL FARM explore's the use of ..... to persuade and/or brainwash others. A) Propaganda. B) Hyperbole. C) Compare/contrast. D) Facts. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Propaganda. ← 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