This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 344 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 344 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "He saw nothing and heard nothing but he could feel his heart pounding and then he heard the clack on stone and the leaping, dropping clicks of a small rock falling." A) Metaphor. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Personification. D) Sound Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 2. The repetition of the sound at the beginning of a word (ex. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.) A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Setting. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 3. An unexpected turn in the story that provides a new view or a new conflict is called a ..... A) Plot twist. B) Flashback. C) Conflict. D) Plot diagram. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plot twist. 4. What do we call the when an author makes an indirect reference to a figure, place, event, or idea originating from outside the text? A) Flashback. B) Allusion. C) Irony. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 5. A character that experiences a change throughout a text. A) Static Character. B) Dynamic Character. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dynamic Character. 6. I know one thing, that I know nothing is an example of A) Allusion. B) Paradox. C) Irony. D) Metonym. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paradox. 7. An example of dramatic irony is A) The audience knows Juliet is just asleep but Romeo thinks she's killed herself. B) A fire station burns down. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The audience knows Juliet is just asleep but Romeo thinks she's killed herself. 8. When the character is speaking to you in the piece of literature A) Conflict. B) Resolution. C) 2nd person point of view. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 2nd person point of view. 9. Seeing slithering snakes makes my spine shiver.Select the correct answer. A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 10. In the meantime the sky begins with a great murmur of confusion, followed by a cloud mixed with hail, and the Counts of Tyria here and there, and the Trojan youth, and the grandson of Venus, fleeing in fear through the various fields; rivers rush down from the mountains. What literary device is found in lines 162-163? A) Anaphora. B) Multi-connectors. C) Tmesis. D) Litotes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Multi-connectors. 11. He drew a line as straight as an arrow.-He drew a line as straight as an arrow. A) Personification. B) Understatement. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 12. When the author tells the reader the character's personality ("he was so angry") A) Direct characterization. B) Indirect characterization. C) Point of view. D) Protagonist. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Direct characterization. 13. The author's main idea or message of the story. It is a universal, opinionated statement about humanity-not a single word. A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Theme. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theme. 14. This essay uses evidence and facts to prove whether or not a thesis is true. The essay presents two sides of a single issue. A) Persuasive. B) Argumentative. C) Descriptive. D) Narrative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Argumentative. 15. Definition-a word' or thing's literal or main definition Example- "The blueberry is very blue." A) Connotation. B) Denotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Denotation. 16. What is the literary device that refers to the message an author wants to communicate through the piece? A) Theme. B) Enjambment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme. 17. Which of the following is an example of a primary source about World War 2 A) The Diary of Anne Frank. B) Interview of a grandson of a veteran. C) The fictional novel A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway. D) An essay written by a student about World War 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Diary of Anne Frank. 18. What does Santa Claus symbolize in the story we just read? A) Magic and gift-giving. B) Holiday cheer. C) Slavery and despair. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Slavery and despair. 19. "You've married an Icarus; he has flown too close to the sun." This is an example of ..... A) Allusion. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 20. The following is an example of what?In 1895, in a small town in Kentucky, there was a schoolhouse. A) Plot. B) Character. C) Setting. D) Set up. 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