This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 382 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 382 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What two literary devices are present below? His smile was like the Chesire Cat. A) Simile and Allusion. B) Metaphor and Allusion. C) Pun and Personification. D) Personification and Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile and Allusion. 2. "Rip Van Winkle" may be an ..... for the value of hard work. A) Symbol. B) Allegory. C) Legend. D) Myth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allegory. 3. Two contradictory words combined in a phrase, as in "Civil War" A) Oxymoron. B) Paradox. C) External conflict. D) Internal conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron. 4. What is the literary device that uses contradictory terms in conjunction? A) Irony. B) Juxtaposition. C) Consonance. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oxymoron. 5. The use of a word that imitates the sound of the object which it refers to A) Onomatopoeia. B) Allusion. C) Analogy. D) Comic Relief. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 6. Words or phrases that appeal to the reader's senses A) Humor. B) Point of view. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 7. Person Against Person: A) A problem between characters. B) A problem within a character's own mind. C) A problem between a character and society, school, the law, or some tradition. D) A problem between a character and some element of nature-a blizzard, a hurricane, a mountain climb, etc. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A problem between characters. 8. The meaning associated with a word A) Denotation. B) Connotation. C) Allusion. D) Situational Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Connotation. 9. The following lines of poetry best demonstrate an example of which literary device?"Heart-we will forget him!You and I tonight." A) Apostrophe. B) Hyperbole. C) Oxymoron. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Apostrophe. 10. Disappeared in the cold, dark polar sky A) Personification. B) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 11. In A Rose for Emily, Emily holds on to her father's dead body for several days before burying it. Later we learn that she has been keeping Homer's body for years. This is an example of what? A) Symbol. B) Allegory. C) Allusion. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Foreshadowing. 12. What is a cluster of words relating to the same topic? A) Anaphora. B) Juxtaposition. C) Oxymoron. D) Semantic field. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Semantic field. 13. Definition-A character that does not noticeably change over the course of a story. These characters often play tertiary roles in a narrative (think of various parental figures in Roald Dahl's children's books). Many villains are ..... characters:They were evil yesterday, they'll be evil today, and they'll be evil tomorrow. A) Flat character. B) Round character. C) Dynamic character. D) Static character. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Static character. 14. Is a writer's vivid description that help readers visualize. A) Adjectives. B) Visualization. C) Descriptors. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 15. A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. A) Stereotype. B) Pun. C) Hyperbole. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stereotype. 16. The central or main idea A) Mood. B) Theme. C) Point of view. D) Flashback. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Theme. 17. This is a good example of Alliteration: "Eric the egg salesman had excellent, everyday customers" A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 18. Repeating a word, phrase, full sentence, or poetical line to emphasize significance. A) Refrain. B) Repetition. C) Assonance. D) Boring. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 19. What element is using an object or a word that represents an abstract idea? A) Style. B) Theme. C) Point of View. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbolism. 20. A) Simple parallel sentence b) Complex parallel sentence = repetition of the same pattern of words or phrases within a sentence or passage to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance. A) A) She looked tired, frustrated, anddisgusted. "All the mechanical operations for allthe farms were performed here. Theshoemaking and mending, theblacksmiting, cartwrighting, coopering, weaving, and grain-grinding were all performed " (7). B) "She had served my old master faithfully She had been the source of all his wealth; she had peopled hisplantation with slaves; she had become a great grandmother in his service " (28). C) The effect is a kind of suspense in which the reader's attention ispropelled forward to the end. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A) She looked tired, frustrated, anddisgusted. "All the mechanical operations for allthe farms were performed here. Theshoemaking and mending, theblacksmiting, cartwrighting, coopering, weaving, and grain-grinding were all performed " (7). ← 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