This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 357 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 357 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which literary device is used to give human qualities to non-human objects or ideas? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 2. How can you know that something is written in first person point of view? A) Pronouns like I, my and him are used. B) The author is addressing the reader. C) The narrator is not in the story. D) Pronouns like I, my and we are used. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pronouns like I, my and we are used. 3. "Don't worry, " the captain told the crew. "This ship is unsinkable." A) Flashback. B) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foreshadowing. 4. A hint of something happening later on ..... A) Flashback. B) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foreshadowing. 5. A hint at something to come later in a piece of literature (present, future, present) A) Foreshadowing. B) Hyperbole. C) Flashback. D) Satire. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foreshadowing. 6. The character opposing the protagonist A) Main character. B) Imagery. C) Antagonist. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Antagonist. 7. Which is NOT one of the three kinds of irony? A) Situational Irony. B) Verbal Irony. C) Jurassic Irony. D) Dramatic Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jurassic Irony. 8. How does internal conflict contribute to the development of a character in a story? A) It reveals the character's physical attributes and appearance. B) It provides insight into the character's thoughts and emotions. C) It determines the character's role within the plot. D) It determines the character's relationships with other characters. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It provides insight into the character's thoughts and emotions. 9. The perspective in which a story is told: A) Narration. B) Exposition. C) Point of view. D) Plot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Point of view. 10. The time, place, or physical place in which a story takes place. A) Atmosphere. B) Connotation. C) Theme. D) Setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Setting. 11. What is a comparison of two things that are basically unlike but have some qualities in common? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Idiom. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 12. When the woman kept changing the subject I knew she had something to hide. I wasn't surprised then ..... A) Foreshadowing. B) Dramatic irony. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foreshadowing. 13. Which of the following terms means "repetition of consonant sounds" ? A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 14. A statement that seems contradictory or absurd, but is actually valid or true A) Oxymoron. B) Paradox. C) Paraphrase. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paradox. 15. "What incredible power of identification the girl had; she was like the eager watcher of a marionette show, anticipating with each flicker of an eyelid, each gesture of his hand, each flick of a finger, the moment before it began." A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 16. "Standing brave in a secret cave"In this line, wee see the example of ..... A) Repetition. B) Simile. C) Internal rhyme. D) External rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Internal rhyme. 17. Point of view used when a story is narrated using the pronoun "I" A) 1st person. B) 2nd person. C) 3rd person omniscient. D) 3rd person limited. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1st person. 18. Imagery that appeals to the reader's sense of touch. A) Auditory Imagery. B) Olfactory Imagery. C) Tactile Imagery. D) Gustatory Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tactile Imagery. 19. I'd recently disagreed with her (Milania) over who had dibs on the gym for practice. Excuse me, but the basketball team can run laps in the hallway, whereas the wrestling squad, of which I was a member briefly until another recent misunderstanding, has to use the gym because that's where the mats are located. And no one ever died waiting twenty minutes for someone else to get done using the gym. Enough said. Except to Milania, who argued with me loudly enough for the wrestling coach to ask, in the interest of the team, for me to resign to make peace with Milania, because the girls' JV basketball team were defending state champions, upsetting their practice time would lead directly to them losing state this year, which would then cause the Earth "to slip off its axis and slide out of its rotation and crash into the sun" (28).Paulsen, Gary. Vote. New York:Wendy Lamb Books, 2013. A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 20. -"no. tis not so deep as a well, nor as wide as a church door" A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Idiom. D) Pun. 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