This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 329 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 329 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Do you ever wonder how you taste things? You owe your sense of taste to your taste buds. We have 9, 000 taste buds just on the tongue alone. There are also taste buds on the roof of your mouth. You even have taste buds on the back of your throat.What does the author want you to learn about the passage? A) Why we can taste only sweet things. B) That we taste through our nose. C) Taste buds are found in different places. tagsCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.10. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Taste buds are found in different places. tagsCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.10. 2. Which of these sentences contains a use of metaphor? A) Her eyes were sparkling sapphires. B) Her eyes sparkled like sapphires. C) Her eyes were as sparkly as sapphires. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Her eyes were sparkling sapphires. 3. Which of the following is the best example for assonance? A) "How now brown cow". B) "The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "How now brown cow". 4. Which sentence is a close example of a simile? (a) A) A She is as cunning as a fox. B) We can't fly. C) There is a cat in the basket. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A She is as cunning as a fox. 5. When an object that stands for something greater than itself A) Onomatopoeia. B) Symbolism. C) Rhyme. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Symbolism. 6. "The sky was a ragged blaze of red and pink and orange, like color spilled from a paintbox." A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 7. During a storytelling session, Emma described a scene saying:'The wind whispered through the trees'. Which literary device is Emma using in her description? A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 8. The bird's chirp filled the empty night air. A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 9. A lawyers closing statement emphasizing his client's high morals and good doings in the community to the jury. What is the author's purpose? Pick the best choice. A) Share. B) Convince. C) Give examples. D) Tell. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Convince. 10. The basic structure of a story A) Plot. B) Conflict. C) Foreshadowing. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plot. 11. Extreme exaggeration is ..... A) Hyperbole. B) Analogy. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 12. A character that struggles with their mental health is an example of what type of conflict? A) Person vs. self. B) Person vs. society. C) Person vs. man. D) Person vs. nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Person vs. self. 13. A type of figurative lanuage that compares two things (nouns) without using like or as such as "He is a wall on the football field" . A) Idiom. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 14. The wheels of justice turn slowly. A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 15. What story is this from? "He wanted to show that fate ruled people's lives, and that those who interfered with it did so to their sorrow" . A) The Monkey's Paw. B) All Summer in a Day. C) The Most Dangerous Game. D) The Story of an Hour. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Monkey's Paw. 16. Another of Aristotle's modes of persuasion, referring to the logical appeal or reasoning used in an argument. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) Rhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 17. A writer presents a situation or thing as if it is less important or serious than it is in reality A) Hyperbole. B) Understatement. C) Alliteration. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Understatement. 18. Which of the following is used in the sentence? The child let the cat out of the bag about the surprise birthday party. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. E) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Idiom. 19. When a word or phrase is used multiple times in a piece of literature, song, or speech, this is called ..... A) Redundancy. B) Repetition. C) Hyperbole. D) Thesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 20. The character that goes against the main character in a story. A) Protagonist. B) Antagonist. C) Direct characterization. D) Indirect characterization. E) Flashback. 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