This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 388 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 388 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A central message or insight into life revealed in a story or poem A) Theme. B) Mood. C) Tone. D) Conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme. 2. What type of literary device is used in the sentence 'Wow! You are the Einstein of our class!'? A) Hyperbole. B) Allusion. C) Personification. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 3. A statement or situation that seems contradictory but reveals a truth. A) Paradox. B) Oxymoron. C) Imagery. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paradox. 4. The bread jumped out of the toaster! A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 5. A reference in one work of literature to a person, place or event in another work of literature or in history, art or music. A) Allusion. B) Illusion. C) Conflict. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 6. He must have his head in the sand if he believes that. A) Hyperbole. B) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Idiom. 7. What literary device is used in this line: "Grapes rolled over in the dark." A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Consonance. 8. Which of these is an example of touch? A) Soft. B) Yellow. C) Stinks. D) Sour. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Soft. 9. All of the events after the climax that lead to the resolution are called ..... A) Exposition. B) Resolution. C) Falling Action. D) Rising Action. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Falling Action. 10. A word or phrase that has two meanings or two possible interpretations. A) Double entendre. B) Iambic Pentameter. C) Sonnet. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Double entendre. 11. Lola heard the last piece of pie calling her name. Lola heard the last piece of paster call her name. A) Alliteration. B) Point of view. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 12. Twenty days A) Whom I !. B) Mass and mountains. C) Where the savage Hector lies with the weapon of the Aecidae, where the huge Sarpedon, where so many Simois rolls!. D) For he saw that the Greeks were fleeing from Pergamum when they were at war, that the youth of Troy would press on, and that Phrygias would press upon the crested chariot of Achilles. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mass and mountains. 13. What is connotation based on? A) Literal meaning of a word. B) Interpretive level of a word based on associated images. C) Historical origin of a word. D) Emotional impact of a word. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Interpretive level of a word based on associated images. 14. In real life, an ambulance comes to a woman's house to take her to the hospital, hopefully to save her life. On the way to the hospital the ambulance is hit by a semi truck and everyone on board the ambulance is killed. A) Situational Irony. B) Verbal Irony. C) Dramatic Irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Situational Irony. 15. Alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds at the ..... of words A) End. B) Beginning. C) Middle. D) Only one word. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Beginning. 16. An autumn is one of the seasons between summer and winter. Which among the following is being symbolized by an autumn? A) Anger. B) Old age. C) Youth. D) Beauty. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Old age. 17. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words(Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers) A) Alliteration. B) Cesura. C) Imagery. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 18. ..... introduces the setting, sets the tone, and presents the characters A) Exposition. B) Climax. C) Resolution. D) Rising action. E) Falling action. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Exposition. 19. What rhetorical device shows an exaggerated drawing or description used to insult or compliment a person? A) To man. B) Characterization. C) Caricature. D) Cartoon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Caricature. 20. What do you call a language that has meaning beyond its literal meaning? A) Poetic language. B) Novelistic language. C) Figurative language. D) Love language. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Figurative language. ← 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