This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 353 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 353 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Allegory is a type of extended ..... in which everything and everyone represents something else. A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 2. Which definition is correct for the following term:Personification A) When human qualities are attributed, or given, to non-human things. B) The author's attitude toward the writing; the way feelings are expressed. C) The moral or lesson the author communicates through the story's plot. D) The feeling readers get from reading; the overall atmosphere, or feeling, of the story. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) When human qualities are attributed, or given, to non-human things. 3. O, Life, why are you so hard?Select the correct answer. A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Assonance. D) Apostrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Apostrophe. 4. When a character recalls an important event from the past is called A) Foreshadowing. B) Exposition. C) Flashback. D) Resolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Flashback. 5. Your love is cancer, death personified is an example of A) Simile. B) Octave. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 6. What type of literary device is found in the following quite: "My mother's hair, like little rosettes, like little candy circles all curly and pretty because she pinned it in pincurls allday ..... " (6). A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 7. Polyptoton A) He came to Aeolia, the land of the wild beasts of the East. B) He who is absent hears and sees him. C) They are going after Laocoon with a certain train. D) I, follow the winds of Italy, seek kingdoms through the waves. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He who is absent hears and sees him. 8. The opposite happens from what you are expecting A) Irony. B) Pun. C) Simile. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irony. 9. The words like and as are A) Words that suggest extreme exaggeration. B) Words used in a metaphor. C) Words that mean the oppposite. D) Comparative words. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Comparative words. 10. Narrator is speaking about him or herself; uses pronouns such as "I, " "me, " "we, " "us" A) First person. B) Second person. C) Third person limited. D) Third person omniscient. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) First person. 11. A figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses an absent person or a personified quality, object, or idea A) Point of view. B) Personification. C) Apostrophe. D) Litotes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Apostrophe. 12. What literary device is present below? Mr. Ordway snores louder than a frieght train. A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Pun. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 13. I am a deeply superficial person. A) Hyperbole. B) Epigraph. C) Oxymoron. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oxymoron. 14. When finding an overarching idea, general topic, or big idea of a text, you (as the reader) are finding the ..... A) Big idea. B) Thematic statement. C) Theme. D) Title. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theme. 15. The series of events that occur between the climax and the end of the text and lower the tension in the story. A) Falling action. B) Rising action. C) Concluding incident. D) Tension. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Falling action. 16. The literary device, Point of View, means ..... A) The emotional feeling of a story. B) The setting and time of a story. C) The perspective from which a story is told. D) The main theme of a story. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The perspective from which a story is told. 17. The horse whinnied and leapt forward, eager to start the race. A) F. Naming. B) A. Simile. C) B. Metaphor. D) C. Hyperbole. E) D. Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) F. Naming. 18. An example of this device is: "Less is more." A) Contrast. B) Paradox. C) Comparison. D) Parable. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paradox. 19. The perspective from which a story is told, or who's telling the story. A) Character. B) Plot. C) Tone. D) Point of view. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Point of view. 20. Marisol Doesn't Match is what type of genre? A) Realistic Fiction. B) Non Fiction. C) Auto biography. D) Fiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Realistic Fiction. ← 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