This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 393 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 393 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Identify the literary device in the sentence 'The moonlight danced on the water.' A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 2. The most exciting part of the story and the turning point where it begins to lead to the end is called the: A) Exposition. B) Climax. C) Resolution. D) Falling Action. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Climax. 3. The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous effect. A) Symbolism. B) Hyperbole. C) Paradox. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Irony. 4. An object or gesture used to represent a bigger idea or concept. A) Conflict. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbolism. 5. Opening to a story that establishes the context and gives background details, often some earlier story that ties into the main one, and other miscellaneous information. A) Foreshadowing. B) Prologue. C) Symbol. D) Climax. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prologue. 6. Examples:buzz, gunk, gushy, swish, zing, zip A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 7. You are a bump on a log when you watch TV all day. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Idiom. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 8. Pain in the rain again A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Epigram. D) Caricature. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 9. What is the tone of a text? A) The feeling the passage evokes from the reader. B) The author, narrator or speaker's attitude toward the subject. C) The time and place of the story. D) The summary of events in the text. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The author, narrator or speaker's attitude toward the subject. 10. What information does the exposition of the story include? A) The characters, the conflict and the title. B) The setting, the situation, and the characters. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The setting, the situation, and the characters. 11. "Leslie sat in front of Paul. She had two long, brown pigtails that reached all the way down to her waist. Paul saw those pigtails, and a terrible urge came over him. He wanted to pull a pigtail. He wanted to wrap his fist around it, feel the hair between his fingers, and just yank." Sideways Stories From Wayside School, Louis Sachar A) First Person. B) Second Person. C) Third Person Limited. D) Third Person Omniscient. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Third Person Limited. 12. What literary device is being used in the sentence 'The barber shaves himself'? A) Irony. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irony. 13. You're as smooth as Tennessee whiskeyYou're as sweet as strawberry wineYou're as warm as a glass of brandy are all examples of ..... A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 14. What is mood in fiction? A) When the characters get hungry. B) When a teenager slams the bathroom door. C) The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader. D) How you feel on Saturday morning. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader. 15. Autobiographies are told from A) The third-person point of view. B) The second-person point of view. C) The first-person point of view. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The first-person point of view. 16. What is this a sample of:jumbo shrimp A) Foreshadowing. B) Hyperbole. C) Flashback. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oxymoron. 17. Major or central idea of a work; conveys the values and ideas expressed in a story A) Plot. B) Setting. C) Characterization. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Theme. 18. In this story, the bus driver's name is Al. The reader knows his name, and that he drives the bus every day. Al doesn't participate in the plot other than driving the bus. Al is likely a ..... character. A) Flat. B) Round. C) Protagonist. D) Dynamic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Flat. 19. A character whose personality changes significantly during the story. A) Characterization. B) Narrator. C) Static character. D) Dynamic character. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dynamic character. 20. The bushes bowed down and greeted us as we walked up the path during the storm. A) Personification. B) NOT Personification. 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