This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 364 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 364 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. An interruption in a narrative to show an event that happened earlier (present, past, present) A) Flashback. B) Allegory. C) Syntax. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Flashback. 2. This literary device uses repeated vowel sounds A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Assonance. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assonance. 3. Which of the following is an example of a simile? a) The sun is a yellow ball in the sky. b) The sun is a yellow ball. c) The sun is shining brightly. A) The sun is a bright light in the sky. B) The sun is a yellow ball in the sky. C) The sun is a blue ball in the sky. D) The sun is a round ball. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The sun is a yellow ball in the sky. 4. Which pronouns are generally used by the narrator in First Person Point of View passages? A) I, me, we, etc. B) You, yours, etc. C) He, she, they, or characters names, etc. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I, me, we, etc. 5. An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected; the difference between what is expected to happen and what actually does A) Plot. B) Foreshadowing. C) Irony. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Irony. 6. The baby slept through the night once in a blue moon. A) Idiom. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 7. A character has a realization is what? A) Oxymoron. B) Epiphany. C) Allusion. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epiphany. 8. Her toes were as cold as ice. A) Free Verse. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 9. She ran like the wind. What is this? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 10. The turning point in the story. The tension isat its highest point in the story. A) Conflict. B) Climax. C) Falling action. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Climax. 11. Lee Anne laughs loudly and lovingly. A) Allusion. B) Alliteration. C) Flashback. D) Understatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 12. Ponyboy Curtiss is slapped in the face by Darry Curtiss because he stayed out too late with Johnny. A) Internal. B) External. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) External. 13. Figure of speech that combines two apparently contradictory ideas. A) Antithesis. B) Fable. C) Oxymoron. D) Proverb. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oxymoron. 14. The repetition of the same sound within nearby words. Usually the repetition of consonants at the beginning of a word. Ex:Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A) Parallelism. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Epistrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 15. Find the simple predicate in the following sentence:The lonely sheep went bowling on Tuesday. A) Lonely. B) Sheep. C) Went. D) Bowling. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Went. 16. In Greek mythology, a mythical bird called the phoenix lives for hundreds of years before bursting into flames at its death. However, it soon rises from its own ashes and is reborn. What is the meaning of the allusion in the sentence below? Fans debated whether their team would rise from the ashes. A) To come back after destruction or defeat. B) To surprise an opponent. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To come back after destruction or defeat. 17. Alice's adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do:once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book, " thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?" So she was considering, in her own mind whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her. A) Third-limited. B) First-person. C) Third-objective. D) Third-omniscient. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Third-limited. 18. Which is a form of Personification? A) The dog barked as I walked by him. B) The wind blew my hair as I took a walk downtown. C) June, July, and August are summer months. D) Crying is medicine for me. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The wind blew my hair as I took a walk downtown. 19. A warning or indication of a future event in a narrative A) Foreshadowing. B) Flashback. C) Theme. D) Climax. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foreshadowing. 20. The turning point or most exciting part of the story is called ..... A) Resolution. B) Exposition. C) Rising Action. D) Climax. 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