This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 373 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 373 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Choose the correct option."I walked a million miles to get here." A) Imagery. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 2. "Military intelligence" and "jumbo shrimp" are examples of: A) Similes. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Personification. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oxymoron. 3. This device is a figure of speech that compares two things using "like" or "as": A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 4. "I might just fade into Bolivian." -Mike Tyson A) Malapropism. B) Euphemism. C) Oxymoron. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Malapropism. 5. When something unexpected happens in a story or other literary writing, this is known as A) Setting. B) Irony. C) Metaphor. D) Novel. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irony. 6. "Love is an endless river." In this line, love is being compared to a river, using: A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 7. "Peter pranced playfully around the playground" is an example of ..... A) Hyperbole. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 8. Repetition of vowel sounds across a line of text or poetry. A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Allegory. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 9. A struggle between two opposing forces, usually a protagonist and an antagonist. / A fight between two opposing forces, usually a protagonist and an antagonist. A) Imagery. B) Personification. C) Allegory. D) Conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Conflict. 10. When one syllable at the end of a word isn't pronounced, but is joined to the next syllable A) Elision. B) Allusion. C) Syncope. D) Chiasmus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Elision. 11. The reference to a subject matter like a person, place, event or literary work in a literary piece is a(n) A) Allusion. B) Allegory. C) Diction. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 12. The shelter was a circus of sights and sounds. What is the phrase in blue? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) None of these. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 13. Irony in which a person says or writes one thing and means another, or uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning A) Epithet. B) Foreshadowing. C) Imagery. D) Verbal irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Verbal irony. 14. She sells sea shells by the sea shore is an example of: A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 15. Which word is determined by the same letter assigned to the rhyming words at the end of each line? A) Rhyme scheme. B) Free verse. C) Narrative. D) Allusion. E) Limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme scheme. 16. "The cookie quickly looked brick-like in the oven, " is an example of A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Consonance. 17. Extreme use of exaggeration to create emphasis A) Hyperbole. B) Idiom. C) Simile. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 18. "The world is a stage, and we are all actors." A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Symbolism. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 19. A long speech spoken by one character alone on stage in which the character's internal thoughts are shared. A) Aside. B) Monologue. C) Allusion. D) Soliloquy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Soliloquy. 20. What should we change?( today, we had a lot of fun. ) A) Change had to Had. B) Change today to Today. C) Change we to We. D) Make no change. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Change today to Today. ← 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