Literary Devices Quiz 30 (20 MCQs)

Quiz Instructions

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1. Someone laughs at someone else for falling down. Then the person that laughed falls down too.

Correct Answer: B) Situational Irony.

2. I had an orange catthat was extremely fat

Correct Answer: D) Rhyme.

3. Repetition of a consonant sounds either at the end or within a word.

Correct Answer: B) Consonance.

4. "I've been waiting forever!" is an example of what?

Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole.

5. He is like a clever, old fox is an example of what literary technique?

Correct Answer: A) Simile.

6. Often becoming adages or proverbs as people repeat them over and over.

Correct Answer: A) Aphorism.

7. A literary approach that ridicules human vices or weakness

Correct Answer: A) Satire.

8. Where the narrator knows all the thoughts, actions, and feelings of all characters

Correct Answer: B) 3rd person omniscient pov.

9. The following is an example of which literary device."I am so hungry I could eat a horse!"

Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole.

10. What is the perspective of the narrator called?

Correct Answer: C) Point of view.

11. "It'll be his name on the cover of all these words, not mine, " is an example of what?

Correct Answer: B) Metafiction.

12. "The English teacher's daughter has failed the English test" What literary device can you spot here?

Correct Answer: C) Personification.

13. The audience knows something that the characters do not know

Correct Answer: B) Dramatic irony.

14. A sudden descent from the impressive or significant to the ludicrous or inconsequential

Correct Answer: D) Anticlimax.

15. "Brandon brought braised brisket to brunch" is an example of:

Correct Answer: B) Alliteration.

16. What sense is being engaged most in this example:Sweet, juicy strawberries

Correct Answer: B) Taste.

17. Which point of view has a narrator that is outside the story and uses "him/her, " "he/she, " or "they/their" ?

Correct Answer: C) Third person point of view.

18. "Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health"

Correct Answer: C) Oxymoron.

19. "Going to school is as fun as taking a trip to Disneyworld!" This is an example of .....

Correct Answer: C) Simile.

20. Choose an example of Personification.

Correct Answer: B) The tree danced back and forth in the wind.