This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 358 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 358 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A brief reference to a significant person, event, or place is known as which literary device? A) Allusion. B) Symbol. C) Irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 2. The string was strong is an example of A) Denotation. B) Connotation. C) Assonance. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Consonance. 3. BAM! The door shut behind me. This is an example of ..... A) Onomatopoeia. B) Simile. C) Symbolism. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 4. A pair of rhymed lines at the end of a stanza A) Internal rhyme. B) Couplet. C) Free verse. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Couplet. 5. Tracy and Lydia are new students in a school. To make themselves seem more interesting, they speak in French accents and pretend they have just moved here from Paris. The audience knows that many of the students actually are from France and have moved to the area because their parents work for a local business, so they know Tracy and Lydia are faking it. A) Verbal. B) Situational. C) Dramatic. D) Not Ironic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dramatic. 6. I like to eat fish. A) Simile. B) Not a simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Not a simile. 7. The giving of human-like traits to inanimate objects is ..... A) Personification. B) Irony. C) Metaphor. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 8. Highest point of interest A) Comedy. B) Theme. C) Setting. D) Climax. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Climax. 9. The use of harsh or clashing sounds; often used in descriptions of war, violence, hate, et cetera A) Onomatopoeia. B) Euphony. C) Alliteration. D) Cacophony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cacophony. 10. Which word means an exaggeration or overstatement? A) Allusion. B) Literary Device. C) Hyperbole. D) Motif. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 11. The clouds raced around the mountain. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 12. Stories that come from the author's imagination A) Nonfiction. B) Fiction. C) Poetry. D) Folklore. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fiction. 13. A central character in a story, movie, or drama who lacks conventional heroic attributes (morality, idealism, courage etc.) A) Antihero. B) Foil. C) Symbol. D) Dramatic irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antihero. 14. What does explicit mean in a writing context? A) Something does not have meaning in the text. B) Meaning that is never stated in the text. C) Meaning that is clearly expressed or fully stated in the actual text. D) The opposite of imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Meaning that is clearly expressed or fully stated in the actual text. 15. The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.Eg 'sweet birds sang' A) Dialogue. B) Alliteration. C) Allegory. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 16. Does not change during the course of the story. A) Round character. B) Flat character. C) Static character. D) Dynamic character. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Static character. 17. Event A) The last event of the story which tells how the story ends; it explains whether the main character met his/her challenge. B) What happens in a story, told in a sequenced, chronological order. C) An action in a story that moves the story forward, usually something happens to the main character, etc. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An action in a story that moves the story forward, usually something happens to the main character, etc. 18. True or False-Symbolism is the practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character. (If you get this wrong that's just sad.) A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 19. What is the purpose of using foreshadowing? A) To distract the reader. B) To define character traits. C) To add dramatic tension. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To add dramatic tension. 20. Choose the correct alliteration example A) From the wheelchair of the rest of my days. B) Like skies at night. C) Stand and stare. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stand and stare. ← 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