This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 29 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 29 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which literary device is shown here? 3 dicit:sed mulier cupido quod dicit amanti, 4 in vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua. A) Metaphor. B) Multi-connectors. C) Alliteration. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 2. True or false:You can identify accents through dialogue. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 3. "Now the once loved pattern of the couch upholstery has to fight to show itself from under acres of crocheted doilies and couch covers" This text uses the literary device ..... A) Diction. B) Point of view. C) Personification. D) I don't know. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 4. Characterization is defined as ..... A) The description of the character's traits including speech, thoughts, actions, effect on others, and looks. B) The main idea or message of a story; it is a true message regardless of time. C) Hints or clues about future events in a story. D) The chief opponent of the main character. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The description of the character's traits including speech, thoughts, actions, effect on others, and looks. 5. The following sentence is an example of which literary device? "Three grey geese in a green field grazing. Grey were the geese and green was the grazing."- "Three Grey Geese, " Mother Goose A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 6. A solo monologue said by a character on stage alone. A) Puns. B) Allusions. C) Dramatic Irony. D) Soliloquy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Soliloquy. 7. The house is as clean as a whistle. A) Simile. B) Not a simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 8. High be his heart, faithful his will, clear his sight, that he may in good earnest be doctrine, society, law, to himself, that a simple purpose may be to him as strong as iron necessity is to others. The words in BLUE are an example of A) Simile. B) Repetition. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 9. A literary technique that relies on comparison and contrast for its resonance with an audience A) Juxtaposition. B) Irony. C) Tone. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Juxtaposition. 10. What it the tone? A) My feeling. B) Author's feeling. C) Definition. D) Prediction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Author's feeling. 11. An extreme exaggeration often used to evoke strong feelings or to create a strong impression A) Metaphor. B) Allusion. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 12. Narrator can tell us the thoughts of one or two characters, but does not include themselves in the story A) First person. B) Second person. C) Third person limited. D) Third person omniscient. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Third person limited. 13. What literary device was used in the following example, "'You make three wishes, ' he said. 'Sounds like the Arabian Nights, ' said Mrs White ..... " A) Imagery. B) Repetition. C) Foreshadowing. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 14. The choices a writer makes so that their work is unique; distinctive features of each literary work A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Theme. D) Style. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Style. 15. He is getting along in years.This is an example of ..... A) Euphemism. B) Paradox. C) Oxymoron. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Euphemism. 16. "All of a sudden, like booming thunder, a light bulb went off in my head." is an example of a simile and ..... A) Personification and onomatopoeia. B) Onomatopoeia and idiom. C) Metaphor and idiom. D) Idiom and personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia and idiom. 17. Non-standard orthography A) Attaching human traits to non-human objects. B) Language purposefully written in an unusual or different way; capitalization, spelling, syntax & punctuation. C) What links all aspects of the text together. D) Group of words in row of a poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Language purposefully written in an unusual or different way; capitalization, spelling, syntax & punctuation. 18. Her smile was as bright as the full moon. A) Simile. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 19. The repetition of a beginning consonant sound in consecutive words A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Poetic Inversion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 20. "You act like Romeo in front of her" is an example of ..... A) Simile. B) Repetition. C) Analogy. D) Allusion. E) Metaphor. 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