This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 342 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 342 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Conceal, don't feel don't let them know/ Now they know A) Personification. B) Repetition. C) Alliteration. D) Hyperbole. E) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 2. A stylistic add on to make something more exciting, interesting, or artistic A) Technique. B) Element. C) Device. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Technique. 3. When you describe an author's disposition concerning his/her topic as frustrated, enraged, joyous, excited, sympathetic, or sorrowful, you are describing his/her: A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Attitude. D) Perspective. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 4. In a dramatic movie, a family is heartbroken because their dog has run away. The audience knows that the dog is safe and that a nice family is trying to help him find his way home. A) Verbal. B) Situational. C) Dramatic. D) Not Ironic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dramatic. 5. ..... characters change quite a bit throughout a story. A) Dynamic. B) Static. C) Cartoon. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dynamic. 6. "Beatty was looking at him as if he were a museum statue." A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 7. Literary term used for language and description that appeals to our five senses. A) Setting. B) Tone. C) Mood. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 8. A widely known basic truth A) Adage. B) Simile. C) Analogy. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Adage. 9. The juxtaposition of a set of seemingly contradictory concepts that reveal a hidden and/or unexpected truth. A) Paradox. B) Personification. C) Imagery. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paradox. 10. This is an expression that has a meaning particular to a language or region and cannot be interpreted literally. A) Paradox. B) Analogy. C) Idiom. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Idiom. 11. A figure of speech in which human attributes are given to an animal, an object or a concept. A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 12. Repetition of a vowel sound A) Speaker. B) Symbol. C) Assonance. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assonance. 13. Select the infinitive from the sentence. I want to eat empanadillas. / Select the infinitive of the sentence. I want to eat dumplings. A) I want. B) Eat dumplings. C) I. D) To eat. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To eat. 14. The main or central character in a story A) Protagonist. B) Symbol. C) Theme. D) Antagonist. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Protagonist. 15. It is the usage of sound words to create a dramatic effect. A) Symbol. B) Simile. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 16. Why did Orwell write ANIMAL FARM? A) To express admiration for Stalin. B) To call attention to Communism. C) To open eyes corrupt power. D) He was a Marxist. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To open eyes corrupt power. 17. Any prose narrative that tells about things as they actually happened or that presents factual information about something A) Nonfiction. B) Narration. C) Exposition. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nonfiction. 18. Uses words that appeal to the 5 senses A) Irony. B) Imagery. C) Oxymoron. D) Allegory. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 19. S.T.E.A.L. Characterization means ..... A) Stealing traits from other characters. B) An acronym for Speech, Thoughts, Effect on others, Actions, and Looks. C) A method of stealing ideas from other authors. D) A technique for creating suspense in a story. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An acronym for Speech, Thoughts, Effect on others, Actions, and Looks. 20. Identify the literary device in the sentence:'The flowers danced in the gentle breeze'. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. ← 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