This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 297 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 297 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the literary definition of a figure of speech? A) An inanimate object being portrayed as if it has human qualities. B) Comparing two unlike things using a word of comparison. C) Expressions that are not literally true but suggest similarities between usually unrelated things. D) When reality contradicts what we expect. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Expressions that are not literally true but suggest similarities between usually unrelated things. 2. It is the repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a text. A) Rhyme. B) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 3. Extreme exaggeration or overstatement A) Implied theme. B) Hyperbole. C) Idiom. D) Conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 4. What type of imagery is being used? "Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft, And gathering swallows twitter in the skies." A) Visual. B) Auditory (Hearing). C) Olfactory (Smell). D) Tactile (Touch). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Auditory (Hearing). 5. The repetition of nearby vowel sounds within or at the end of words. A) Assonance. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 6. Which word means a poem developed by the letters of a word or name, which are used to begin the first word in each line of the poem? A) Allusion. B) Acrostic. C) Narrative. D) Lyric. E) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Acrostic. 7. "small crowd" and "deafening silence" are both examples of this literary devices A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Oxymoron. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oxymoron. 8. When something unexpected happens of is said. A) Irony. B) Mood. C) Motif. D) Plot. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irony. 9. The example highlighted below is an example of? The morning sun smiled down on the children. A) Rhyme. B) Assonance. C) Personification. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 10. What is a figure of speech that gives human qualities to non-human things? A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Anthropomorphism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 11. One of Aristotle's three modes of persuasion, referring to the ethical appeal or credibility of the speaker. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) Rhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 12. He isn't the sharpest tool in the shed. A) Metaphor. B) Litotes. C) Euphemism. D) Synecdoche. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Litotes. 13. The part of the plot that leads up to the highest point of tension. A) Exposition. B) Rising Action. C) Climax. D) Falling Action. E) Resolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rising Action. 14. A string of words in proximity to each other that begin with the same sound. A) Personification. B) Allegory. C) Alliteration. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 15. Narrative, prose fiction that is shorter than a novel A) Onomatopoeia. B) Short story. C) Metaphor. D) Verbal irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Short story. 16. "Inside the [Radley] house lived a malevolent phantom." -TKAM, Ch 1 A) Hyperbole. B) Idiom. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 17. What is the problem of Nimh? A) Dragon is hunting the mice and rats. B) Winter is coming. C) Timothy is sick and moving day is coming. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Timothy is sick and moving day is coming. 18. The music coursed through us, shaking our bodies like as if it came from within us. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Euphemism. C) Irony. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 19. What is the purpose of using caricature in a political cartoon? A) To make a political statement. B) To create a sense of humor. C) To emphasize a point. D) To exaggerate the physical features of a political figure for effect. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To exaggerate the physical features of a political figure for effect. 20. What is the purpose of sensory details in writing? A) To confuse the reader. B) To create mental images and sensory impressions. C) To provide historical context. D) To reveal the climax at the beginning. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To create mental images and sensory impressions. ← 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