This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 340 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 340 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Descriptions that engage readers through the five senses:sight, sound, smell, taste, touch; also called imagery A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Sensory details. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sensory details. 2. An exaggerated story about something that may have been real at one time A) Fairy tale. B) Fable. C) Legend. D) Tall tale. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Legend. 3. Relating human feelings to something not human A) Philanthropy. B) Anthropology. C) Anthropometer. D) Anthroponomy. E) Anthropopathic. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Anthropopathic. 4. What is the formal division of lines in a poem that is considered a unit? A) Stanza. B) Verse. C) Line. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 5. Roger tells Luella that he wants to buy ..... A) Blue suede shoes. B) Food from the market. C) New clothes. D) A t.v. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Blue suede shoes. 6. Read the sentences. What is the difference between the words mortified and embarrassed? A. Sam was mortified when he was called to come up onstage during the assembly. B. Sam was embarrassed when he was called to come up onstage during the assembly. A) "Mortified" is the antonym of "embarrassed.". B) "Embarrassed" is more intense and has more negative connotation than "mortified.". C) "Mortified" is more intense and has a more negative connotation than "embarrassed.". D) "Mortified" and "embarrassed" have different denotations. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "Mortified" is more intense and has a more negative connotation than "embarrassed.". 7. The opposite of what you'd expect to happen A) Conflict. B) Hyperbole. C) Irony. D) Character. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Irony. 8. " ..... it takes a family; it takes teachers; it takes clergy; it takes business people; it takes community leaders; it takes those who protect our health and safety. It takes all of us." This excerpt includes repetition of a group of words at the beginning of phrases. It is a technique called: A) Simile. B) Anaphora. C) Allusion. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anaphora. 9. Writing that is true or factual A) Fiction. B) Nonfiction. C) Drama. D) Folklore. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nonfiction. 10. Language that is not to be interpreted in a literal sense. A) Figurative Language. B) Literal Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Figurative Language. 11. Often used in warnings or promises A) Cause and effect. B) Comparison. C) Illustration. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cause and effect. 12. Conflict is the struggle or clash between opposing characters, forces, or emotions. The types of conflict are: A) Man vs. man, man vs. animal, man vs. self, man vs. nature, man vs. job. B) Man vs. man, man vs. society, man vs. nature, man vs. job, man vs. machine. C) Man vs. man, man vs. society, man vs. machine, man vs. nature, man vs. self. D) Man vs. self, man vs. man, man vs. animal, man vs. machine, man vs. environment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Man vs. man, man vs. society, man vs. machine, man vs. nature, man vs. self. 13. The most exciting part of the story is called the ..... A) Setting. B) Exposition. C) Climax. D) Rising Action. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Climax. 14. "May day delay" is an example of what? A) Repetition. B) Consonance. C) Rhyme. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme. 15. My alarm clock yells at me in the morning A) Idiom. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 16. The phrase 'time flies' is an example of ..... A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 17. Pepsi, it gives you wings. A) Hyperbolic. B) Hyperbole. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 18. The poetic form that mourns the dead and is sorrowful in tone is ..... A) Free verse. B) Elegy. C) Sonnet. D) Lyric. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Elegy. 19. What two other literary devices does interplay combine? A) Anaphora and anadiplosis. B) Anaphora and epistrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anaphora and epistrophe. 20. "To me alone there came a thought of grief" A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Pun. D) Inversion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Inversion. ← 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