This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 394 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 394 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Verbal irony in which a person says the opposite of what he/she means. A) Personification. B) Allusion. C) Sarcasm. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sarcasm. 2. What's the definition of hyperbole? A) The use of words which actually sound like the objects or actions to which they refer. B) An exaggerated statement used to emphasize a point. C) The giving of human qualities to an animal, object or abstract idea. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An exaggerated statement used to emphasize a point. 3. The use of vivid language to generate ideas or evoke mental images, typically using the 5 senses. A) Symbolism. B) Metaphor. C) Imagery. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 4. A visual representation of the plot of a story A) Plot diagram. B) Setting. C) Theme. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plot diagram. 5. ..... is where the story is taking place A) Point of view. B) Setting. C) Mood. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Setting. 6. What can a black cat symbolize? A) Passion. B) Power. C) Superstition. D) Animals. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Superstition. 7. The bright, golden sun filled the morning sky. A) Imagery. B) Idiom. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 8. A speech of some duration addressed by a character to a second person is called ..... A) Soliloquy. B) Allusion. C) Monologue. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Soliloquy. 9. What do you call imagery which appeals to the senses? A) Sensitive imagery. B) Descriptive imagery. C) Sensory imagery. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sensory imagery. 10. What is 3rd person Point-of-View? A) A character in the story tells the story. B) The author or a narrator tells the story. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The author or a narrator tells the story. 11. Your smile is a ray of light. A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Oxymoron. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 12. In Lemony Snicket, most of the inhabitants of the island on which the Baudelaires find themselves in The End are characters from The Tempest, a play by William Shakespeare. A) Allusion. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 13. Symbols are ..... that stand for something else. A) Characters. B) Objects. C) Ideas. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Objects. 14. "Oh no!" exclaimed Darcy. "Look at my shoes!" Mom leaned over and noted a speck of dirt on the gray leather. "What a tragedy, " said Mom. "They're ruined!" A) Verbal. B) Situational. C) Dramatic. D) Not Ironic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Verbal. 15. Which literary device is a figure of speech that compares two different things by using the words 'like' or 'as'? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 16. The features of a literary work in terms of the speaker or narrator; the characteristics displayed by the speaker or narrator in terms of tone, style, and personality A) Voice. B) Satire. C) Dialogue. D) Setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Voice. 17. Plot refers to ..... A) Where a story occurs. B) The underlying idea in a book. C) Where the story takes place. D) The sequence of events in a story. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The sequence of events in a story. 18. Which of the following choices is an example of an alliteration? A) His stomach is a bottom-less pit. B) That's a piece of cake!. C) Carly crashed her car. D) BARK. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Carly crashed her car. 19. A story with magic, monsters, and or talking animals-like fantasy but part of the oral tradition A) Myth. B) Fable. C) Fairy tale. D) Legend. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fairy tale. 20. In a poetry class, Aiden described the sun as a 'golden chariot in the sky.' What figure of speech is Aiden using to describe the sun as if it were another? A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. ← 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