This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 316 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 316 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the common allusion for Goofy? A) To be a coward. B) To be sinful. C) To be silly. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To be silly. 2. What shows action or a state of being A) Verb. B) Adverb. C) Noun. D) They tend. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Verb. 3. Big baby A) Oxymoron. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Symbolism. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron. 4. What does the word "Diction" mean? A) The fully developed way to developed way to write sentence. B) The choice and use of words and phrase in speech or writing. C) Admirable writing. D) No wrong answers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The fully developed way to developed way to write sentence. 5. In a piece of literature, briefly referencing an important person, what he/she said, did or stood for; or a place, an event; or even inserting a popular phrase or line from a written text, even from the Bible is known as: A) Allegory. B) Alliteration. C) Allusion. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 6. While narrating a story, John described his friend's courage by saying, "His bravery was like a lion facing its prey." This statement is an example of ..... A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 7. I must be cruel to be kind. A) Paradox. B) Allusion. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paradox. 8. Spongebob is an example of what type of literary device? A) Pun. B) Flashback. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 9. A situation in which two characters have opposing desires or interests. A) Man vs. Man. B) Man vs. Nature. C) Man vs. Society. D) Man vs. Self. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Man vs. Man. 10. What's the definition of Onomatopoeia? A) The repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. B) A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole, or the whole for a part. C) The use of words which actually sound like the objects or actions to which they refer. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The use of words which actually sound like the objects or actions to which they refer. 11. The events that make up a story or drama A) Narrative. B) Conflict. C) Plot. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Plot. 12. In a school play, Anthony portrayed a character who was as innocent as a lamb. Which literary device is being used in this description? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 13. In the meantime the sky begins with a great murmur of confusion, followed by a cloud mixed with hail, and the Counts of Tyria here and there, and the Trojan youth, and the grandson of Venus, fleeing in fear through the various fields; rivers rush down from the mountains. What literary device is found in line 161? A) Multi-connectors. B) Enjambment. C) Hyperbaton. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Enjambment. 14. What type of literary device is found in the following quite: "And me, my hair is lazy" (6). A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 15. Little Red Riding Hood was told by her mother, "Don't sop along the way. Go straight to your grandma's house. Don't talk to any strangers and watch out for the wolf in the woods." A) Foreshadowing. B) Epiphany. C) Allusion. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foreshadowing. 16. A piece of literature or art that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning A) Allusion. B) Conflict. C) Allegory. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allegory. 17. Which literary device is being used in the following sentence:'Time is a thief'? A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 18. Stories that are set in the Wild West, the main character's strengths, skills, or size have been exaggerated and the tone is funny A) Fairy tale. B) Fable. C) Legend. D) Tall tale. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tall tale. 19. "Johnny was as quick as lightning" means ..... A) Johnny is on fire. B) Johnny is very fast. C) Lightning is fast. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Johnny is very fast. 20. What story is this from? "It involves a study of the human heart which leads us through devious mazes of passion, out of which it is difficult to find our way." A) The Lady or the Tiger. B) The Bet. C) The Monkey's Paw. D) The Story of an Hour. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Lady or the Tiger. ← 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