This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 320 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 320 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Sorry, I thought you knew that John kicked the bucket. I figured somebody told you knew he bit thhe dust. A) Euphemism. B) Tautology. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tautology. 2. Your teeth are like stars, They shine at night.Choose the simile from these lines. A) Your teeth. B) Your teeth are like stars. C) They shine at night. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Your teeth are like stars. 3. In the Harry Potter series, the Death Eaters rebelled against the social ideas of the normal wizarding world. Of what type of conflict is this an example? A) Man vs. self. B) Man vs. man. C) Man vs. society. D) Man vs. supernatural. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Man vs. society. 4. My backpack weighed a ton with all of my books in it. A) Irony. B) Idiom. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 5. A play on words; Ex:I really wanted a camo shirt, but I couldn't find one. A) Symbol. B) Pun. C) Irony. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pun. 6. Indirect comparison of two unlike things using like, as, seems, or than. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 7. The flowers are dancing beside the lake. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 8. What is the tone of a literary work? A) Author's attitude toward the subject matter. B) Another name for poetry, lines 'turn' at a specific point. C) Repetition of vowel sounds at close intervals. D) Addressing someone absent or nonhuman as if alive. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Author's attitude toward the subject matter. 9. An exaggeration used to make or prove a point A) Idiom. B) Cliche. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 10. Words that are similar but do not have same number of syllables A) Hyperbole. B) Slant Rhyme. C) Anaphora. D) Epistrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Slant Rhyme. 11. The beginning of the story that has the setting, background, character introduction and initial conflict is called the: A) Exposition. B) Climax. C) Resolution. D) Falling Action. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Exposition. 12. After giving evidence to support your ideas, you should ..... A) Cite another piece of evidence. B) Move on to your next ideas. C) Explain how the evidence supports your idea. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Explain how the evidence supports your idea. 13. When something is used to represent something else A) Idoliters. B) Logo. C) Similarity. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbolism. 14. What is the literary device that repeats the same phrase at the beginning of each line? A) Enjambment. B) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anaphora. 15. The moon smiled at me. What kind of figures of speech is being used? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 16. The aural image appeals to the sense of? A) Smell. B) Hearing. C) Speech. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hearing. 17. I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. A) Anaphora. B) Simile. C) Extended metaphor. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Extended metaphor. 18. The emotional bonding of the character(s) and the reader is ..... A) Flashback. B) Catharsis. C) Climax. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Catharsis. 19. When a word is formed from a sound. A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 20. A combination of two words that contradict each other. For example:deafening silence A) Assonance. B) Tone. C) Mood. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oxymoron. ← 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