This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 327 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 327 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The repetition of the same first letter/sound in a word in a phrase A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Imagery. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 2. A sister walks into her brother's messy apartment and says, "I see you're still the king of clean!" A) Verbal. B) Dramatic. C) Situational. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Verbal. 3. Figures of speech that go beyond literal meaning, like metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole A) Symbolism. B) Characterization. C) Mood. D) Figurative Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Figurative Language. 4. Characters that are complex and develop as the story goes on A) Round. B) Flat. C) Static. D) Dynamic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Round. 5. A reference to a well-known person, place, event or work (book, song or movie) that appears in another work A) Allegory. B) Allusion. C) Analogy. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 6. What does point of view refer to in a literary work? A) The narrator's position in relation to the story being told. B) A figure of speech in which something is described as if it were something else. C) The main problem in the story. D) The time and place in which a story is set. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The narrator's position in relation to the story being told. 7. We were chickens with our heads cut off. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Apostrophe. E) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 8. The definitions for Tone is ..... A) The author's attitude toward a story. B) They are hints and clues the author gives that sets the reader up for the climax or resolution. C) Feelings and emotions a reader gets when they read a story. D) The author or a narrator tells the story. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The author's attitude toward a story. 9. A limited narrator is usually ..... A) First person. B) Second person. C) Third person. D) Fourth person. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) First person. 10. "[T]he young patriot feels himself stronger than before by a new thousand of eyes and arms ..... " The above passage contains an example of A) Alliteration. B) Hyperbole. C) Allusion. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 11. The action that follows the climax and leads to the solution A) Inciting Incident. B) Exposition. C) Resolution. D) Falling Action. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Falling Action. 12. BRRRING! BRRRING! The telephone! Then it stopped, even before Joey had moved. A) Personification. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Hyperbole. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 13. The conflict is between a character and the society he/she lives in A) Man v. society. B) Antagonist. C) Protagonist. D) Man v. nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Man v. society. 14. A broad statement that describes characteristics that are common to a variety of experiences A) Generalization. B) Understatement. C) Allusion. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Generalization. 15. You were brought up Catholic and have a hard time believing and following any other religion. A) Person vs. person. B) Person vs. society. C) Person vs. religion. D) Person vs. technology. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Person vs. religion. 16. What word best describes this image? (a) A) Irony. B) Hyperbole. C) A nomenclature. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A nomenclature. 17. Which literary device is this:baby buggy bumpers go bump A) Repetition. B) Internal rhyme. C) Allusion. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 18. What does antithetical mean? A) Directly opposed, opposite; involving synthesis. B) Directly opposed, opposite; involving antithesis. C) Directly aligned, similar; involving synthesis. D) Directly aligned, similar; involving antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Directly opposed, opposite; involving antithesis. 19. What is the purpose of hyperbole in a poem? A) To create suspense and build anticipation. B) To compare two unlike things using like or as. C) To convey a deeper meaning beyond the literal interpretation. D) To exaggerate and emphasize a point. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To exaggerate and emphasize a point. 20. "You are my sunshine" is what type of figurative language? A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. ← 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