This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 315 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 315 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Stories handed down through speech from generation to generation, have an unknown author, adapted from, and retold A) Fiction. B) Drama. C) Folklore. D) Nonfiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Folklore. 2. The story of a real person's life that is written by that person A) Biography. B) Autobiography. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Autobiography. 3. True or False:George Orwell is the author's real name. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 4. These have an inherent existence in literary pieces because authors cannot create their desired work without including these. A) Literary elements. B) Literary devices. C) Literary techniques. D) Literary pieces. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Literary elements. 5. A difference between the expected and the actual result A) Situational irony. B) Dramatic irony. C) Verbal irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Situational irony. 6. She is fast as a rocket! A) Metaphor. B) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 7. -"I must hear from thee every day in the hour for in a minute there and many days" A) Hyperbole. B) Dramatic Irony. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 8. There are three types of ..... dramaticsituationalverbal A) Imagery. B) Irony. C) Conflict. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irony. 9. What is an irony? A) It is a literary technique in which the characters become animals. B) It is a literary technique in which the characters become real. C) It is a literary technique in which the author describes the characters of the story. D) It is a literary technique in which what is written or stated is different from or the opposite of what is expected. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It is a literary technique in which what is written or stated is different from or the opposite of what is expected. 10. What term means category or kind of story? A) Fiction. B) Non-Fiction. C) Genre. D) Literature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Genre. 11. An important idea or subject repeated throughout a story with an object to represent it. This object will be shown or mentioned again and again. A) Motif. B) Foreshadowing. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. E) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Motif. 12. Literary work in which the central character meets an unhappy or disastrous end A) Poetry. B) Fiction. C) Imagery. D) Tragedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tragedy. 13. "The sun came out for an hour and showed its face to the stunned world" A) Personification. B) Imagery. C) Idiom. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 14. A narrative element with symbolic meaning that repeats throughout themes and a work of literature. A) Hamartia. B) Symbol. C) Motif. D) Archetype. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Motif. 15. My mom is going to ground me for a thousand years. A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 16. A warning in Literature that alludes to a future event that will take place. A) Symbolism. B) Irony. C) Suspense. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Foreshadowing. 17. Narrator is a character outside of the story and knows the thoughts of all characters A) First person. B) Second person. C) Third person limited. D) Third person omniscient. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Third person omniscient. 18. A figure of speech comparing two things using "like" or "as"; Ex:Jamie's quick as a fox! A) Onomatopoeia. B) Parallelism. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 19. Mr. Ramsay gave a luxurious dote to his future bride for their upcoming wedding on December 2021 A) Folding. B) Hyperbole. C) Anachronism. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anachronism. 20. Traits, characteristics, and mannerisms supposedly shared by all members of a group A) Characteristics. B) Stereotype. C) Narrator. D) Conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stereotype. ← 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