This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 377 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 377 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When the author goes back in time and describes an earlier event or scene is called ..... A) Foreshadowing. B) Suspense. C) Flashback. D) Exposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Flashback. 2. Descriptive language that evokes sensory experience. A) Figurative. B) Adjective. C) Imagery. D) Emotional. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 3. Which explanations best describes why this text evidence supports the development of the theme? Take one's adversity Turn adversity into ambition A) The evidence shows that people need to learn things. B) The evidence shows that the author uses an encouraging tone to support the theme. C) The evidence shows that the theme is learn from your mistakes. D) The evidence shows that people can be nice. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The evidence shows that the author uses an encouraging tone to support the theme. 4. "You must close your eyes to open your mind" is an example of A) Symbol. B) Idiom. C) Pun. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Antithesis. 5. What is the literary device used to create a contrast between what is expected and what actually happens in The Alchemist? A) Metaphor. B) Irony. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irony. 6. "Allusion" is a ..... A) Literary Element. B) Literary Technique. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Literary Technique. 7. "Is there an Einstein in your physics class?" What literary device is used? A) Allusion. B) Paradox. C) Imagery. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 8. Introduces the character, describes the setting, and establishes the conflict A) Exposition. B) Plot. C) Metaphor. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Exposition. 9. The point in a narrative story which the conflict or tension hits the highest point A) Exposition. B) Rising action. C) Falling action. D) Climax. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Climax. 10. Language that communicates ideas beyond the ordinary, literal meanings of words. A) Dialogue. B) Diction. C) Figurative language. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Figurative language. 11. Which of the following is "The perspective from which the narrator, speaker, or author recounts a narrative or presents information?" A) Imagery. B) Point of view. C) Theme. D) Setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Point of view. 12. The following is an example of which literary device?The wind was blowing furiously as rain poured down. Suzie then says, "What lovely weather we are having!" A) Simile. B) Irony. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irony. 13. The irony of something happening that is very different to what is expected because of the situations or circumstances A) Verbal Irony. B) Situational Irony. C) Dramatic Irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Situational Irony. 14. This figure of speech compares two things, using the words as/like. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Imagery. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 15. Words spoken by a character in a play, usually in an undertone and not intended A) Blank Verse. B) Irony. C) Aside. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aside. 16. The act of creating, developing, and describing characters. Can be both direct or indirect. A) Appearance. B) Character traits. C) Character analysis. D) Characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Characterization. 17. When an audience knows something a character does not A) Dramatic irony. B) Situational irony. C) Verbal irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dramatic irony. 18. Theme is the overall message or (a) an author is trying to teach the reader. A) A life lesson. B) Symbol. C) Hint to future. D) Repeated pattern. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A life lesson. 19. "I can hear the popping and crackling as mom dropped the bacon into the frying pan" is an example of what? A) Imagery. B) Irony. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 20. A cliffhanger example is when a episode of a tv program ends with the villain and hero face to face? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. ← 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