This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 276 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 276 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the main function of the narrator in a story? A) To provide background information. B) To confuse the reader. C) To create suspense. D) To tell the story. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To tell the story. 2. The who and whom of the story is defines ..... A) Setting. B) Milieu. C) Character. D) Suspense. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Character. 3. Conversation between two or more characters in either fiction or nonfiction; and is told almost exclusively in drama is the definition of which term A) Claim. B) Dialect. C) Diction. D) Dialogue. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dialogue. 4. What is the definition of medium? A) One of the means or channels of general communication, information, or entertainment in society, as newspapers, radio, or television. B) The elements of the natural world, as mountains, trees, animals, or rivers. C) To get up after falling or being thrown down. D) A middle state or condition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) One of the means or channels of general communication, information, or entertainment in society, as newspapers, radio, or television. 5. Which literary device is a type of phrasal repetition that mirrors the syntax but changes one or two words? A) Allusion. B) Enjambment. C) Metaphor. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Parallelism. 6. The main character of a story who must overcome conflict A) Figurative Language. B) Protagonist. C) Villain. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Protagonist. 7. Make a situation seem less important than it really is. / Make a situation seem less important than it really is. A) Personification. B) Conflict. C) Understatement. D) Underwear. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Understatement. 8. A conflict where a person must fight against nature. A) Man vs. society. B) Man vs. man. C) Man vs. nature. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Man vs. nature. 9. What literary device best describes the sentence? A) Allusion. B) Irony. C) Metaphor. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 10. "The foxtails were as tall as skyscrapers" is an example of ..... A) Simile. B) Alliteration. C) Rhyme. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 11. Verbal irony is defined as ..... A) When something is said, but the opposite is meant; sarcasm is one example. B) When the reader knows something crucial that the characters do not; leads to a surprising twist. C) The main character in the story the "good guy" . D) Hints or clues about future events in a story. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) When something is said, but the opposite is meant; sarcasm is one example. 12. "I am so hungry I could eat a horse." is an example of which literary device? A) Allegory. B) Hyperbole. C) Idiom. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 13. "The Heart wants what it wants-or else it does not care" A) Personification. B) Symbolism. C) Juxtaposition. D) Situational Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 14. The calm lake was a mirror. A) Hyperbole. B) Idiom. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 15. What is the mood of a text? A) Emotions audience feels from a given passage. B) The time and place of the story. C) The Lesson the reader learns from the story. D) The summary of events in the text. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Emotions audience feels from a given passage. 16. Identify the verb in the following sentence:The bus drove down the block. A) Bus. B) Drove. C) Down. D) Block. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Drove. 17. Has many definable character traits A) Round character. B) Flat character. C) Static character. D) Dynamic character. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Round character. 18. The technique that employs wit to ridicule a subject, usually some social institution or human foible, with the intention of inspiring reform A) Allegory. B) Paradox. C) Cliche. D) Satire. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Satire. 19. The handles on the doors are huge ..... really exaggerated to be funny! What literary device is being used? A) Allusion. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Irony. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 20. A direct representation or a comparison where one thing is another. A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. ← 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