This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 302 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 302 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought; a stereotype. A) Epiphany. B) Malapropism. C) Cliche. D) Comic relief. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cliche. 2. Watching Annette get dressed was like watching paint dry. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 3. Why is the use of literary language and devices important in a story, and how do they contribute to the overall quality of the narrative? A) Literary language and devices enhance the story by creating vivid imagery, deeper meaning, and engaging the reader's emotions. B) Literary language and devices make a story less enjoyable for readers. C) Literary language and devices only serve to confuse readers. D) Literary language and devices have no impact on the quality of a narrative. . Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Literary language and devices enhance the story by creating vivid imagery, deeper meaning, and engaging the reader's emotions. 4. A literary device that combines opposite terms into one expression is a ..... A) Oxymoron. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Archetype. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron. 5. The main character of the story who is faced with a conflict A) Antagonist. B) Dynamic character. C) Protagonist. D) Static character. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Protagonist. 6. The night ..... pressed its thick warm blackness upon the yacht A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 7. When a word's vocalization immitates a natural sound, as can be heard in the words "buzz, pop, bam" what do we call that device? A) Oxymoron. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Personification. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 8. Extreme exaggeration used to emphasize the point A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 9. Putting human characteristics to objects is ..... A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 10. Imagine you are at a dinner party. One of the guests, who has just finished a large steak, exclaims, "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse." What type of irony would this situation be an example of? A) Verbal Irony. B) Situational Irony. C) Dramatic Irony. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Verbal Irony. 11. EXAMPLE:After Halloween, the empty candy wrappers formed a mountain in the garbage can. A) Symbolism. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 12. What is the imagery used in the line below?With the clattering sound of pain, his world shattered into pieces when he heard his father's death. A) Gustatory imagery. B) Visual imagery. C) Auditory imagery. D) Olfactatory imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Auditory imagery. 13. Those lazy lizards are lying like lumps in the leaves A) Alliteration. B) Repetition. C) Rhetorical question. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 14. The repetition of the sound of a vowel in a sentence. This will make words in the sentence sound as if they almost rhyme. A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 15. Bright, the sun and cool, the water at the beach that day.Choose the correct answer. A) Line length. B) Consonance. C) Poetic inversion. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poetic inversion. 16. Uses words in a certain way to convey meaning or to persuade A) Analogy. B) Oxymoron. C) Rhetorical devices. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhetorical devices. 17. When the narrator is not a character in the story but can explain the perspectives of all characters A) 3rd person omniscient. B) 3rd person objective. C) 3rd person limited omniscient. D) 1st person. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 3rd person omniscient. 18. I'm literally dying of boredom A) Paradox. B) Simile. C) Allusion. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 19. The landlady's house made Billy uncomfortable when he looked through the window. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 20. A person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something is called what? Examples:Voldemort, Captain Hook, The Joker A) Protagonist. B) Anti-hero. C) Antagonist. D) Motif. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Antagonist. ← 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