This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 391 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 391 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "Ms. Prais is no poet. She cannot control it. It is Saturday and she is tired. But if her kids can't learn literary devices, she will get fired" (JK). This little poem is an example of ..... A) Repetition. B) Dialogue. C) Rhyme. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme. 2. Macbeth is alone on stage when he hallucinates about seeing a bloody dagger and talks a lot about it. What is this speech called? A) Monologue. B) Lecture. C) Aside. D) Soliloquy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Soliloquy. 3. The word dentist has the ..... 'man or woman who fixes teeth'. A) Connotation. B) Denotation. C) Rhetoric. D) Aphorism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Denotation. 4. Which of the following is an example of imagery?a) The wind whispered through the trees.b) She ran as fast as a cheetah.c) The stars danced in the night sky.d) The moon is a silver coin. A) B. B) C. C) A. D) D. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A. 5. Jenna did not like Mrs. Dillard, for she complained when Jenna and her friends splashed too much as they dove off the diving board, and she complained when Jake and his younger friends made too much noise playing Marco Polo.This sentence is an example of what plot event? A) Exposition. B) Conflict/problem. C) Climax. D) Falling Action. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Conflict/problem. 6. The rain in spain mainly falls on the plain. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Assonance. 7. When the author flat-out tells you what a character is like A) Personification. B) Direct characterization. C) Point of view. D) Indirect characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Direct characterization. 8. Occurs when a character says or writes one thing and means another, or uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning. A) Theme. B) Hyperbole. C) Verbal irony. D) Dramatic irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Verbal irony. 9. Read the sentences. What is the difference between the words surprised and astounded? A. Julie was surprised to find out that her grandma was coming for a visit. B. Julie was astounded to find out that her grandma was coming for a visit. A) "Surprised" is the antonym of "astounded.". B) "Astounded" is more intense than "surprised" and implies that Julie was even more shocked. C) "Surprised" and "astounded" have different denotations. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "Astounded" is more intense than "surprised" and implies that Julie was even more shocked. 10. A central character in a story, movie, or drama who lacks conventional heroic attributes A) Anti-hero. B) Dark comedy. C) Imagery/sensory details. D) Suspense/tension. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anti-hero. 11. Fangled webs wryly weave. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Repetition. E) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Alliteration. 12. This kid was a young Albert Einstein. This sentence uses ..... A) Similarly. B) Allusion. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 13. Study of sound. A) Cacophony. B) Linguistics. C) Euphony. D) Internal Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Linguistics. 14. Which definition is correct for the following term:allusion A) The use of clues that suggest events yet to come. B) Repetition of sounds at the end of words. C) When one thing is used to represent, refer to, or make you think of something else. D) Reference to something outside of the work, usually mythical, Biblical, or historical. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Reference to something outside of the work, usually mythical, Biblical, or historical. 15. Sometimes we cherish things of little value.He possessed a cold fire in his eyes.Is an example of A) Metaphor. B) Oxymoron. C) Simile. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron. 16. "The sink gurgled as I poured out the rotten milk" is an example of ..... A) Onomatopoeia. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 17. When an author uses descriptive language about how something smells, that is ..... A) Gustatory imagery. B) Tactile imagery. C) Olfactory imager. D) Visual imagery. E) Auditory imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Olfactory imager. 18. A type of figurative language that gives human traits or characteristics to nonliving objects is called A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 19. Which device is "giving human characteristics to non-human things" ? A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 20. Which literary device is being used in the following sentence:'I've told you a million times.'? A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. ← 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