This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 354 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 354 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The laughter of children echoed through the playground, bringing a sense of joy and happiness. A) Visual imagery. B) Auditory imagery. C) Olfactory imagery. D) Gustatory imagery. E) Tactile imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Auditory imagery. 2. The end of the story, where the final outcome is revealed A) Exposition. B) Climax. C) Falling action. D) Resolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Resolution. 3. The story is told by one of its characters, using the first person A) First person point of view. B) Limited omniscient. C) Omniscient point of view. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) First person point of view. 4. "Sweat slicking his skin" A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. C) Consonance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 5. ..... takes place when the audience knows what one or more of the people on stage does not know. A) Suspense. B) Dramatic irony. C) Satire. D) Dark humor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dramatic irony. 6. What does imagery do for the reader? A) Creates a picture in the book. B) Creates an interesting plot. C) Creates a picture in the reader's mind. D) Makes the author look good. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Creates a picture in the reader's mind. 7. A sequence of related events A) Plot. B) Character. C) Inference. D) Conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plot. 8. What is the foreshadow in this passage? "NOW, my dears, " said old Mrs. Rabbit one morning, "you may go into the fields or down the lane, but don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden:your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor. A) That the rabbits are going to go play. B) That the rabbits are going to go to the lake to take a swim. C) The rabbits are curious and are going to go to Mrs. McGregor's garden to see what is in there. D) That the rabbits are going to go down the lain and into the field. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The rabbits are curious and are going to go to Mrs. McGregor's garden to see what is in there. 9. She did not realize that opportunity was knocking at her door. A) Transferred epithet. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 10. Giving non-human objects human characteristics is ..... A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 11. Why are mice afraid of porcupines? A) Porcupines will eat all of their food. B) Porcupines eat mice. C) Porcupines don't like owls. D) Porcupines plan to take over Gray House. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Porcupines eat mice. 12. What literary device was used in the following example, "The gate banged loudly and heavy footsteps came toward the door." A) Simile. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Foreshadowing. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 13. Which literary device uses deliberate exaggeration to make something seem larger or more important than it actually is? A) Idiom. B) Euphemism. C) Hyperbole. D) Adage. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 14. The wind skipped through the trees. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 15. Which point of view tells ALL character's thoughts and emotions and is told from the outside narrator? This is the ALL KNOWING narrator. A) 3rd person omniscient. B) 2nd person. C) 3rd person limited. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 3rd person omniscient. 16. A movie you are watching shows a woman jogging in the woods. The next scene shows a mountain lion lying in wait down the path where the woman is jogging. A) Situational Irony. B) Verbal Irony. C) Dramatic Irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dramatic Irony. 17. A simile is a comparison using like or as A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 18. Descriptive or figurative language that appeals to the senses. A) Characterization (indirect). B) Imagery. C) Allusion. D) Classical Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 19. Definition:A brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art. A) Alliteration. B) Irony. C) Allusion. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 20. It is words or lines with repetition of vowel sounds within words. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assonance. ← 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