This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 371 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 371 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the kind of character in drama which has a strong contrast to another character? A) Caricature. B) Foil. C) Stereotype. D) Archetype. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foil. 2. Author tells us exactly what the character is like A) Indirect characterization. B) Direct characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Direct characterization. 3. Which of the following is not a noun? A) Person. B) Place. C) Action. D) Thing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Action. 4. A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them. (a) A) A Analogy. B) Allusion. C) Alliteration. D) Dramatic irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A Analogy. 5. "Shoba walked over to the framed corkboard that hung on the wall by the fridge, bare except for a calendar of William Morris wallpaper patterns"Could be an example of A) Assonance. B) Motif. C) Hyperbole. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 6. Which of the following choices is NOT an example of onomatopoeia? A) BARK. B) CRASH. C) DOVE. D) WHEE. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) DOVE. 7. We were wrapped in jackets like pigs in blankets. A) Metaphor. B) Allusion. C) Simile. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 8. This is the end of the central conflict of the story. A) Exposition. B) Resolution. C) Falling Action. D) Rising Action. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Resolution. 9. "An echo rose from within-it was crystal clearAnd I could hear it calling to me." -What figurative language is this? A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 10. Which of the following is NOT a part of the power paragraph? A) Claim. B) Exposition. C) Explanation. D) Evidence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exposition. 11. Emmett woke up early and got ready for school. He had to take a test before first period. Emmett knew that Oscar would be waiting for him in the hallway after he finished the test. Oscar wanted to know what was on the test, but Emmett had to decide if he should tell him or if that would be cheating. A) External Conflict:Character v. Character. B) Internal Conflict:Character v. Self. C) External Conflict:Character v. Nature. D) External Conflict:Character v. Society. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Internal Conflict:Character v. Self. 12. People started running like ants. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Apostrophe. E) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 13. Short events are linked to one another by common characters, places, or a unified theme but are held apart by their individual plot, purpose and subtext. A) Linear plot. B) Episodic plot. C) Cumulative plot. D) Circular plot. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Episodic plot. 14. Words used in a special way that are different from their literal meaning. Used as a phrase. A) Metaphor. B) Idiom. C) Literal. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Idiom. 15. Which of the following is the best example of an oxymoron? A) Lesser of two evils. B) One way street. C) Be yourself. D) Act naturally. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Act naturally. 16. What is imagery produced by? A) Descriptive language. B) Denotation. C) Connotation. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Descriptive language. 17. When a nonhuman figure or other abstract concept or element is given human-like qualities or characteristics. A) Flashback. B) Allusion. C) Irony. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 18. What point of view?"Bob went to the store. He was nervous. When Bob entered, the clerk became suspicious about what Bob would do next." A) 1st Person. B) 2nd Person. C) 3rd Person Limited. D) 3rd Person Omniscient. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 3rd Person Omniscient. 19. When he was grounded from video games, his house was a prison. What does this metaphor mean? A) He was sent to jail for playing video games. B) Being grounded made him feel as if he were in prison. C) Someone left his video games on the ground. D) He was playing a prison video game. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Being grounded made him feel as if he were in prison. 20. The placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparison or contrast. A) Simile. B) Irony. C) Metaphor. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Juxtaposition. ← 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