This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 402 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 402 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "We're weary of weather, " said the sunflower is an example of ..... A) Assonance. B) Tone. C) Personification. D) Synecdoche. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 2. When he takes a bite of the cookie, his mind travels back to when he ate them as a child. A) Flashback. B) Foreshadowing. C) Personification. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Flashback. 3. I told you a million times to clean your room A) Metaphor. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 4. Irony can best be used to achieve which of the following effects? A) Create humor, suspense, or tragedy. B) Create an emotional connection with the audience. C) Create action, setting, and basic situation. D) Introduce new characters. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Create humor, suspense, or tragedy. 5. The feelings and associations suggested by a word. A) Metonymy. B) Connotation. C) Definition. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Connotation. 6. Refers to the feelings and associations created by a word. A) Synonym. B) Denotation. C) Connotation. D) Acronym. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Connotation. 7. Asked for emphasis or effect, but not for an answer A) Satire. B) Rhetorical questions. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhetorical questions. 8. Two unlike things compared directly, implying several similar qualities. A) Descriptive language. B) Denotation. C) Connotation. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 9. Main character put against the systems or beliefs of a group. A) Person v. person. B) Person v. self. C) Person v. nature. D) Person v. society. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Person v. society. 10. This is the main idea or moral of the story. A) The idiom. B) The plot. C) Alliteration. D) The theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The theme. 11. The overall emotion and atmosphere created by a work of literature A) Tone. B) Imagery. C) Mood. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mood. 12. The expression "the life is a higway" is an ..... A) Suspense. B) Allegory. C) Methaphor. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Methaphor. 13. Which literary device is a word that makes a sound? A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Simile tags2.3.R.4. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 14. Mallory was listening to a nutrition presentation at school and couldn't believe how much she was learning. She came to the realization of how unhealthy her family ate. She decided she wanted to get healthy and help her family get healthy too. She devised a plan to add one healthy item to their diet each Week. She also started grocery shopping with her mom to help her learn how to cook healthy. What was Mallory's motivation? A) The Nutrition Presentation. B) To get healthy. C) Grocery shopping. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To get healthy. 15. Which of the following uses denotation to describe a 90 year old man? A) Elderly. B) Mature. C) Ancient. D) Rugged. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Elderly. 16. This is an example of which literary device? You can hear happiness staggering on down the streetFootprints dressed in redAnd the wind whispers, "Mary" A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 17. How many main types of irony are there? A) 8. B) 3. C) 6. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 3. 18. Writing that appeals to the reader's physical senses (sight, taste, smell, touch, hearing) A) Prose. B) Imagery. C) Poetry. D) Sensory. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 19. When an author gives an inanimate object human or living characteristics. For example:the trees danced in the wind. A) Personification. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 20. During a literature class, David read a poem aloud. Luna noticed that some words in the poem sounded like the noises they were describing. What is the figure of speech that imitates the sound it represents, which Abigail later explained to Luna? A) Onomatopoeia. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. ← 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