This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 331 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 331 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When the author uses a metaphor throughout a long passage or even an entire poem. A) Extended Metaphor. B) Metaphor. C) Allusion. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Extended Metaphor. 2. Which of the following means: "comfort, relief?" A) Muted. B) Solace. C) Hierarchy. D) Astonished. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Solace. 3. A reference to someone, somewhere, or something famous (most commonly made to the Bible, mythology, or Shakespeare) A) Assonance. B) Idiom. C) Allusion. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 4. Ricky and Noah read the sign on the bulletin board. There was going to be a neighborhood park clean-up day on Saturday afternoon. Noah wanted to take part in the cleanup. Ricky said he would rather do something else. "But Ricky, " Noah explained, "track season is over so we don't have to practice. There's nothing good on TV on Saturday afternoon. Besides, we use the park a lot, so we should help keep it clean." Which is the best reason for Ricky to help? A) There is nothing good on television on Saturday afternoon. B) Track season is over so they don't have to go to practice. C) They use the park a lot, so they should help keep it clean. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They use the park a lot, so they should help keep it clean. 5. He was so tired that he took a 72-hour nap. EL estaba tan cansado que tomo un siesta de 72 horas. A) Alliteration. B) Hyperbole. C) Understatement. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 6. Giving human traits to a non-human thing A) Setting. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Genre. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 7. Which statement below is an example of a simile? A) Life is a highway. B) That knife is as sharp as a razor. C) Clary closed her cluttered clothes closet. D) Her eyes were diamonds. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) That knife is as sharp as a razor. 8. A way of indicating or hinting at what will come later A) Hyperbole. B) Foreshadowing. C) Dramatic irony. D) Situational irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foreshadowing. 9. "Suffering breeds character; character breeds faith" is an example of: A) Folding. B) Anaphora. C) Interplay. D) Epistrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Folding. 10. When I awoke it was broad daylight and the full sun was glaring straight into my eyes. A) Personification. B) Rhetorical question. C) Metaphorical language. D) Emotive language. E) Visual imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 11. "The moon is a sneak, " is an example of: A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Idiom. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 12. The children were flowers grown in concrete gardens. A) Hyperbole. B) Euphemism. C) Metaphor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 13. "Frailty, thy name is woman!" A) Apostrophe. B) Alliteration. C) Unrelated. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Apostrophe. 14. Pop, squish, buzz, squeak are all examples of ..... A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 15. The use of symbols, be they words, people, marks, locations, or abstract ideas to represent something beyond the literal meaning. A) Paradox. B) Allegory. C) Foreshadowing. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbolism. 16. Speech that reflects pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar typical of a geographical region. A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. C) Dialect. D) Humor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dialect. 17. Common expressions that are not literal and are used by certain groups of people A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Idiom. 18. Third-person Objective: A) Narrator is a character in the story; uses "I, " "we, " etc. B) Narrator outside the story; uses "he, " "she, " "they" The reader knows no thoughts and feelings. C) Narrator tells only what one character perceives. D) Narrator can see into the minds of all characters. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Narrator outside the story; uses "he, " "she, " "they" The reader knows no thoughts and feelings. 19. Appeals to readers' senses through highly descriptive language. A) Imagery. B) Allusion. C) Aphorism. D) Dramatic Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 20. This is the use of clues that hint at events that will happen later in the story A) Foreshadowing. B) Dramatic irony. C) Hyperbole. D) Allusion. 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