This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 321 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 321 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the leading character in the story called? A) Hero. B) Protagonist. C) Antagonist. D) Good guy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Protagonist. 2. His girlfriend and his hopes for all future happiness walked out of the dance and into the rain. A) Multi-connectors. B) Zeugma. C) Litotes. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Zeugma. 3. What is this an example of?The bonfire hissed and cracked. A) Personification. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Hyperbole. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 4. A scene in a narrative work that interrupts the present action of the plot to "flash backward" and tell what happened at an earlier time A) Foreshadowing. B) Imagery. C) Flashback. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Flashback. 5. At his confirmation, Mark's father gave him a wooden cross that had been hand-carved by his great-grandfather. He said that he always found comfort in the cross, and hoped that Mark would too. A) Flashback. B) Foreshadow. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Flashback. 6. This is the main character, characterized by "goodness" A) Obstacle. B) Antagonist. C) Dynamic. D) Protagonist. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Protagonist. 7. Pretty princesses prancing is an example of alliteration A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 8. What is the purpose of irony as a literary device? A) To create contrast between expectations and reality. B) To enhance the plot of a story. C) To develop complex characters. D) To establish the setting of a narrative. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To create contrast between expectations and reality. 9. Macbeth kills King ..... A) Malcolm. B) Banquo. C) Duncan. D) Fleance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Duncan. 10. Which war is taking place during the story? A) World War 1. B) World War 2. C) Vietnam War. D) Crimean War. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) World War 2. 11. A type of dramatic irony where what is meant is different to what is said (sarcasm is a mild form). A) Situational Irony. B) Bitter Irony. C) Verbal Irony. D) Dramatic irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Verbal Irony. 12. "A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas river drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green." What literary device is used? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Allusion. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 13. "HIC, Dolopum manus, HICsaevus tendebat Achilles:classibus HIC locus, HIC aciecertare solebant" A) Anaphora. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anaphora. 14. Let it go, let it go, and I'll rise like the break of dawn A) Juxtaposition. B) Metaphor. C) Allusion. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 15. The author directly states a character's traits and personality A) Direct characterization. B) Imagery. C) Dialogue. D) Indirect characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Direct characterization. 16. ..... is a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance A) Allusion. B) Metaphor. C) Oxymoron. D) Narration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 17. Fog The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on. A) Allusion. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 18. "The street lamp flickering opposite shone on a quiet and deserted road." A) Onomatopoeia. B) Imagery. C) Onomatopoeia and imagery. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia and imagery. 19. The vehicle (person, animal, creation) that moves the story forward. A) Characters. B) Characterisation. C) Climax. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Characters. 20. Which of the following is NOT a metaphor A) She danced by like a swan in flight. B) His words cut deeper than a knife. C) The tree is the god of the forest. D) I'm feeling blue. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She danced by like a swan in flight. ← 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