This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 384 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 384 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When an author mentions a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art A) Intervention of the gods. B) Epic simile. C) Allusion. D) Greek values. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 2. Identify the literary device in the following passage: "Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity" (Adichie 6). A) Allusion. B) Idiom. C) Anaphora. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anaphora. 3. Rainsford struggles to stay calm in "The Most Dangerous Game" A) Person v. person. B) Person v. self. C) Person v. environment. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Person v. self. 4. Which word best describes the tone of the passage below? I never wanted to see that movie, but my annoying little sister kept pestering me. Eventually, her whining wore me down, and I gave in. But that waste of a movie really destroyed my Saturday. A) Admiring. B) Bitter. C) Sad. D) Hopeful. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bitter. 5. Two-dimensional in that they are relatively uncomplicated and do not change throughout the course of a work. A) Flat Character. B) Round Character. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Flat Character. 6. All of the events that lead to the eventual climax. A) Exposition. B) Plot. C) Rising Action. D) Resolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rising Action. 7. Personification is defined as ..... A) Assigns human qualities and attributes to objects or other non-human things. B) A character speaks to him or herself, relating his or her innermost thoughts and feelings as if thinking aloud. C) Two or more elements of a sentence (or series of sentences) have the same grammatical structure. D) Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assigns human qualities and attributes to objects or other non-human things. 8. During a study session, Oliver exclaimed to Nora, 'I've told you a million times how to solve this equation.' A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 9. Breaking the fourth wall A) Others were exercised in fishing, about cod and bass and other fish, of which they took good store. B) But Squanto continued with them and was their interpreter and was a special instrument set of God. C) By the same rope to the brink of the water, and then with a boat hook and other means got into the ship again. D) Here I cannot but stay and make a puase, and stand half amazed at this poor, peoples present condition; and so I think will the reader, too when he well considers the same. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Here I cannot but stay and make a puase, and stand half amazed at this poor, peoples present condition; and so I think will the reader, too when he well considers the same. 10. Who is the poet of the poem 'The Snake Trying'? A) Edward Lear. B) W.W.E Ross. C) Coates Kinney. D) Robert Frost. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) W.W.E Ross. 11. "She was as crazy as a bat" is an example of: A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 12. The family gathered around the television to watch the lottery drawing. The TV announcer drew the first number and said, "6." Mom yelled, "Six! We have six!" The announcer drew the second number, "10." Mom yelled again, "Yes! We have ten!" The announcer said, "And the final number is ..... " Suddenly the TV went black and the room plunged into darkness. "The last number! What is the last number?" exclaimed Mom. A) Foreshadowing. B) Flashback. C) Suspense. D) Cliffhanger. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cliffhanger. 13. David raced out of his house and ran, full speed, to the bus stop. He could not miss the bus again because no one was home.What type of characterization does the writer use to let us know that David is frantic about being late for the bus A) Direct. B) Indirect. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Indirect. 14. What color is the flag that Poppy raises? A) Red. B) White. C) Blue. D) Purple. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) White. 15. When a word sounds like the sound it names. A) Flashback. B) Satire. C) Simile. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 16. A direct or indirect description of a character that helps you understand something about their appearance or personality A) Characterization. B) Setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Characterization. 17. Alliteration is being used in the following passage. Peter Piper Picked a Peckled Pepper A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 18. A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way is ..... A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Analogy. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Analogy. 19. Mild or pleasant way of saying something harsh or cruel A) Euphemism. B) Oxymoron. C) Pun. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Euphemism. 20. When symbolism is used to teach a moral lesson at the end of a story, we call this ..... A) Metaphor. B) Allegory. C) Personification. D) Foreshadowing. 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