This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 41 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 41 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work. A) Tone. B) Theme. C) Motif. D) Characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Theme. 2. A timeline showing important events from the American Civil War. What would be the author's purpose in the above statement? A) Entertain. B) Convince. C) Tell. D) Urge. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tell. 3. Identify the literary device in the phrase:'Time flies.' A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 4. Usually the shortest part of the story; follows the climax in which the pieces of the story begin to settle A) Resolution. B) Falling action. C) Exposition. D) Plot. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Falling action. 5. Kathy loves to capture bugs when she is outside. What word could you change bug to, and make more alliteration in the sentence? A) Butterflies. B) Dogs. C) Caterpillars. D) Lighting bugs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Caterpillars. 6. Words and phrases used by the author to create "mental images" for the reader. A) Foreshadowing. B) Setting. C) Plot. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 7. What does STEAL stand for? A) Speech, Thoughts, Effect on others, Actions, and Looks. B) Statements, Time, Effort, Actions, and Love. C) Solitude, Thoughts, Enthusiasm, Actions, and Loss. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Speech, Thoughts, Effect on others, Actions, and Looks. 8. Metaphors and similes compare two things, but a simile uses ..... A) Like. B) As. C) Both like or as. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both like or as. 9. Jason is a walking dictionary. A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 10. What is this an example of? "There's too many kids in the tub. There's too many elbows to scrub." A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 11. Giving a nonhuman human qualities is called ..... A) Plot. B) Characterization. C) Antagonist. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 12. You break a date with your girlfriend so you can go to the ball game with the guys. When you go to the concession stand, you run into your girl, who is with another guy. A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Inference. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Irony. 13. "Love is a battlefield" is an example of A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Pun. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 14. I am dying of shame. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Hyperbole. C) Symbolism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 15. One who tells lies, conceals information, misjudges with respect to the narrative A) Plot stages. B) Anybody name who starts with 'j' especially JAMAL DEVON PERKINS. C) Unreliable narrator. D) Flashback. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Unreliable narrator. 16. "Your teeth are like stars; they come out at night."What poetic device is this an example of? A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 17. "The clock was glaring at me" is an example of ..... A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 18. "The sibilant snake slithered silently through the grass." This line from a poem is an example of: A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 19. A metrical foot made up of 2 long syllables ( ..... ) A) Spondee. B) Dactyl. C) Meter. D) Iamb. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spondee. 20. "Chocolate cake is my Achilles heel." A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Allusion. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. ← 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