This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 38 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 38 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect. A) Oxymoron. B) Assonance. C) Idiom. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron. 2. When an inanimate object is given human characteristics A) Similarly. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Rising Action. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 3. How the reader feels about what is being read is ..... A) Mood. B) Setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mood. 4. When something unexpected happens compared to what we were expecting A) Dramatic irony. B) Situational irony. C) Verbal irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Situational irony. 5. An object or idea standing for something else in a story is called A) Symbolism. B) Personification. C) Assonance. D) Flashback. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Symbolism. 6. Which is NOT a characteristic of an epic poem? A) Includes a quest. B) Includes a hero. C) Must be short in length. D) Contains larger-than-life characters. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Must be short in length. 7. Which sentence is NOT about the setting? A) John entered a dark room. B) John shivered in the cold. C) John was very frightened. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) John was very frightened. 8. A chicken crossing the road is truly poultry in motion A) Metaphor. B) Consonance. C) Pun. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pun. 9. A hyperbole..... A) Exaggerates A LOT. B) Tells it as it is. C) Is an under-exaggeration. D) Compares two ideas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Exaggerates A LOT. 10. Imagery is Language used to create ..... in the mind of the reader. A) Smell. B) Sight. C) Image. D) Movie. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Image. 11. "Polyphemus heard the ..... groaning of the oarlocks ..... (12). A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 12. The repetition of consonant sounds at the end of words A) Consonance. B) Imagery. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consonance. 13. She sells sea shells on the sea shore A) Assonance. B) Rule of three. C) Sibilance. D) Sassiness. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sibilance. 14. Imagery which appeals to the sense of touch A) Tactile. B) Auditory. C) Visual. D) Olfactory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tactile. 15. A story told using the pronoun "I" in which the speaker DOES NOT know everything is called A) Third person limited. B) Third person omniscient. C) First person limited. D) First person omniscient. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) First person limited. 16. This literary device uses "like" or "as" to make a comparison A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 17. A combination of two words that, together, express a contradictory meaning. A) Oxymoron. B) Imagery. C) Euphemism. D) Allegory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron. 18. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader is ..... A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Drake's "In My Feelings". D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mood. 19. Which quote best reveals hyperbole? A) "There is only one thing worse than being served a terrible meal:being served a terrible meal by earnest waiters who have no idea just how awful the things they are doing to you are.". B) "There's a little gilt here and there, to remind us that this is a room designed for people for whom guilt is unfamiliar.". C) "Menus the height of Richard Osman are brought.". D) "It makes us yearn for a bowl of French onion soup.". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "Menus the height of Richard Osman are brought.". 20. Traveling from New York to Florida in January in order to avoid the cold weather but finding below-freezing temperatures once you arrived in Florida would be an example of: A) Dramatic irony. B) Good luck. C) Situational irony. D) Motion sickness. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Situational irony. ← 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