This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 369 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 369 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Topic is: A) A series of events in a book or movie. B) A subject you talk, write, or learn about. C) The message the author wants to tell the reader through their book. D) Writing about real people and events. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A subject you talk, write, or learn about. 2. In "The Seventh Man, " which statement best summarizes what happens in theweeks following K.'s death? A) He falls ill and has nightmares. B) He moves to Nagano. C) He starts attending a different school. D) He spends hours studying K.'s artwork. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He falls ill and has nightmares. 3. What is the term for the perspective on events of the narrator or a particular character in a story? A) Point of View. B) Protagonist. C) Rhetoric. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Point of View. 4. He is as ugly as sin.This is an example of which literary device? A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 5. ..... is/are comprised of rising action, falling action, and climax. A) Plot. B) Poems. C) Pickles. D) Pictures. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plot. 6. "Hello darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you again ..... " (Paul Simon, The Sounds of Silence) A) Personification. B) Apostrophe. C) Anaphora. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Apostrophe. 7. Directly compares two seemingly unlike things without using like or as A) Simile. B) Tone. C) Metaphor. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 8. The person or character who actually tells the story, filling in the background information and bridging the gaps between dialogue. (See Point of View.) A) Symbol. B) Narrator. C) Historical Fiction. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Narrator. 9. Definition of Personification A) The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. B) Giving a human the attributes of an inanimate object. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. 10. "The stone was cool and frictionless under his fingers, like hardened silk." A) Allusion. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 11. A line that has five metrical feet each containing stressed and unstressed syllables. A) Double entendre. B) Iambic Pentameter. C) Sonnet. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Iambic Pentameter. 12. This is a good example of alliteration: "For every failure the French also celebrated fantastic success" A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 13. Addressing an unseen entity. A) Imagery. B) Apostrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Apostrophe. 14. Foreshadowing:Yes or No Luis shouted, "Mr. Sims, don't open that door! Who knows what could be behind it?" A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 15. What is not an example of anthropomorphism. A) A computer talking. B) A peace of rice dancing. C) A candle that does back flips while singing. D) A big fat carrot. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A big fat carrot. 16. Which literary device is used in the sentence 'Both girls had curly hair, blue eyes, and ready smiles'? A) Comparison. B) Repetition. C) Parallel structure. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Comparison. 17. When giving a human characteristic to an animal, object, or idea. A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 18. Read the quote and determine if it is direct characterization or indirect characterization: "He glanced at her face-her eyes, which were honey brown, and her nose, which crinkled when she smiled." A) Direct characterization. B) Indirect characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Direct characterization. 19. 'Go slow over the road' is ..... A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Cesura. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 20. The perspective from which the writer tells the story (1st, 2nd, 3rd person; omniscient, limited omniscient A) Rhyme. B) Theme. C) Figurative Language. D) Point of View. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Point of View. ← 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