This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 35 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 35 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth is a: A) Paradox. B) Pun. C) Symbol. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paradox. 2. When you say the opposite of what you actually mean. A) Irony (VERBAL). B) Satire. C) Idiom. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irony (VERBAL). 3. Refers to the use of an object, figure, event, situation, or other idea in a written work to represent something else. A) Epigraph. B) Symbolism. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Symbolism. 4. Identify the simile in the following sentence:The clouds were like fluffy cotton candy in the sky. A) The clouds were as hard as rocks in the sky. B) The clouds were like fluffy cotton candy in the sky. C) The clouds were similar to a rainbow in the sky. D) The clouds were soft and fluffy in the sky. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The clouds were like fluffy cotton candy in the sky. 5. What is it called when you use surrounding words or phrases to figure out the meaning of an unknown word? A) Point of view. B) Context clues. C) Foreshadowing. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Context clues. 6. What is this a sample of:The sneaky, slimy, slippery snake slithered through the grass. A) Simile. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. E) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 7. A contradictory phrase, like nicknaming a 6 foot guy "Tiny" A) Personification. B) Oxymoron. C) Epigraph. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron. 8. "Society is a joint-stock company in which the members agree for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater." The above passage is an example of A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 9. ..... :Something (such as an important idea or subject) that is repeated throughout a book, story, etc A) Paradox. B) Irony. C) Motif. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Motif. 10. You expect one thing to happen, but the complete opposite happens instead! (ex. A cat chasing a dog!) A) Situational irony. B) Verbal irony. C) Dramatic irony. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Situational irony. 11. What is the definition for figurative language? A) When an author hints at a plot event that will occur later in the story. B) Words or expressions with a non-literal meaning. Used to give a deeper understanding to the reader. C) The AUTHOR'S feeling about a topic in the literature (negative, critical, humorous, sympathetic). D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Words or expressions with a non-literal meaning. Used to give a deeper understanding to the reader. 12. Define oxymoron: A) Words that sound like the sound they are trying to convey-name or word imitating the sound associated with the thing designated. B) Comparisons, descriptions, & figures of speech that help the mind to form forceful or beautiful pictures. C) Human qualities given to an object or thing. D) Joining of two contradictory terms. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Joining of two contradictory terms. 13. "A dragonfly, a brilliant blue jewel, darted up and paused over the lily pads." A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 14. "Read between the lines" is an example of ..... A) Idiom. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 15. The attitude the writer takes towards the audience, subject, or a character A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Paradox. D) Point of view. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 16. When what happens in a story is vastly different from what the reader expected to happen A) Shocking Irony. B) Unusual Irony. C) Situational Irony. D) Confounding Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Situational Irony. 17. The literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests. A) Denotation. B) Dialogue. C) Connotation. D) Dialect. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Denotation. 18. Occurs when two contradictory words are together in one phrase. A) Oxymoron. B) Allusion. C) Flashback. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron. 19. Which is an example of dialogue? A) My teacher wasn't a good one. He was mean and strict and never let people go to the bathroom. B) Chloe is my babysitter. She is the 16-year-old daughter of my neighbor who comes over on weekends. C) I was watching TV when my mom said, "Start getting ready in 30 minutes. We have to leave out of here at 11.". D) He had a secret that he couldn't admit to anyone:he has seen Mean Girls 1, 200 times. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) I was watching TV when my mom said, "Start getting ready in 30 minutes. We have to leave out of here at 11.". 20. "People didn't know what to do. A few clapped. Most just sat there, their mouths hanging open like dead fish." (from Joan Bauer's Rules of the Road)What literary device is being used here? A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Parallelism. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. ← 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