This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 280 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 280 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is it called when you say the opposite of what you really mean? A) Pun. B) Allusion. C) Verbal irony. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Verbal irony. 2. An exaggeration of ideas A) Dramatic irony. B) Hyperbole. C) Foreshadowing. D) Flashback. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 3. "two men are smashed so that you could scrape them off the wall with a spoon and bury them in a mess-tin." A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Parallelism. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 4. Select the word that correctly defines each story element. The introduction, or exposition, of a short story is also its ..... A) Character. B) Beginning. C) Resolution. D) Main message. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Beginning. 5. What elements refer to plot, theme, characters, spectacle, and dialogue? A) Literary element. B) Performance element. C) Technical element. D) Literary devices. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Literary element. 6. Which option below is a simile? A) That dog swims like a fish. B) I am so hungry that I could eat a horse. C) A snake is just a tail with a face. D) That is the pinkest pink that ever pinked. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) That dog swims like a fish. 7. The toddler was a hurricane destroying the playroom. This is an example of: A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Neither . D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 8. What two consonants "make positions" by themselves? That is, they make the vowel before them long. A) W and x. B) Y and w. C) X and z. D) K and z. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) X and z. 9. The room buzzed with excitement as everyone waited for the President to arrive A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Consonance. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 10. Chocolate is his Kryptonite. What literary device is used in the sentence? A) Allusion. B) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 11. The contrast between expectation and outcome or appearance vs. reality A) Hyperbole. B) Syntax. C) Irony. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Irony. 12. What is the PLOT of a work of literature? A) A comparison of two unlike things, using a word such as "like" or "as.". B) The series of related events that make up a story. C) The time and place of a story. D) A struggle between opposing characters or opposing forces. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The series of related events that make up a story. 13. In which the middle of a phrase is repeated. A) Healing. B) Interfolding. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Interfolding. 14. The placement of two or more things (usually unrelated to one another) side by side is A) Diction. B) Euphemism. C) Juxtaposition. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Juxtaposition. 15. The feelings evoked by a story A) Atmosphere. B) Conflict. C) Mood. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mood. 16. He is just like a slug. A) Simile. B) Irony. C) Pun. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 17. "Sally had a smile that rivaled the Mona Lisa" is an example of ..... A) Metaphor. B) Symbolism. C) Allusion. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 18. Love of mankind A) Philanthropy. B) Anthropology. C) Anthroponomy. D) Anthropopathic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Philanthropy. 19. A word created from a sound associated with what is namedEg cuckoo, sizzle, bang A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Foreshadowing. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 20. The repetition of a sound at the end of a phrase or sentence. Ex: A) Epistrophe. B) Alliteration. C) Irony. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Epistrophe. ← 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