This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 412 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 412 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which literary device is used in the sentence "'Object there was none. Passion there was none'? A) Comparison. B) Repetition. C) Parallel structure. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 2. What type of irony is it when words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning? A) Verbal Irony. B) Dramatic Irony. C) Situational Irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Verbal Irony. 3. The character in opposition to the main character. Against the hero A) Protagonist. B) Allusion. C) Antagonist. D) Flashback. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Antagonist. 4. A character (or thing) that is the source of conflict in aliterary work A) Protagonist. B) Antagonist. C) Characterization. D) Motif. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antagonist. 5. The time and place of the action is called ..... A) Exposition. B) Setting. C) Characterization. D) Plot. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Setting. 6. I'm sure I've asked you a thousand times to clean your room. A) Hyperbole. B) Figure of speech. C) Evaluative vocab. D) Appeal to emotions and values. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 7. He has no enemies but is bitterly disliked by his friends. A) SARCASM. B) IRONY. C) PUN. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) IRONY. 8. Her boss have to let her go because of her incompetence in the company. A) Alliteration. B) Euphemism. C) Antimetabole. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Euphemism. 9. Motto or quotation that appears at the beginning of a work that generally relates to the theme of a work, for example, "What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up / Like a raisin in the sun?" A) Oxymoron. B) Historical context. C) Motif. D) Epigraph. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Epigraph. 10. A loud blast from its whistle A) Imagery. B) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 11. A tragic flaw, especially a misconception, a lack of some important insight, or some blindness that ironically results from one's own strengths and abilities. A) Connotation. B) Denotation. C) Hamartia. D) Satire. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hamartia. 12. Which is the definition of "alliteration" ? A) Repeating vowel sounds. B) Repeating words. C) Repeating things. D) Repeating beginning consonant sounds. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repeating beginning consonant sounds. 13. Using something to represent an idea larger than itself A) Allusion. B) Irony. C) Symbolism. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbolism. 14. "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.Tis some visitor, " I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door ..... A) End Rhyme. B) Internal Rhyme. C) Eye Rhyme. D) Slant Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Internal Rhyme. 15. Which of these sentences contains an example of hyperbole? A) The room was hotter than the air outside. B) The room was almost as hot as an oven. C) The room was so hot my face melted. D) The room was very hot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The room was so hot my face melted. 16. These are comparison devices A) Alliteration & Assonance. B) Simile & Metaphor. C) Hyperbole and Pun. D) Imagery & Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile & Metaphor. 17. What is a unit of a pronounced word or part of a word that has one vowel sound with or without surrounding consonants? A) Connotative. B) Denotative. C) Syllable. D) Dramatic Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Syllable. 18. He hit me like a wrecking ball ..... A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 19. The moment of great emotional intensity or suspense in a plot (marks the moment when the conflict is decided one way or another). A) Resolution. B) Conclusion. C) Climax. D) Conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Climax. 20. A type of figurative language that compares two unlike things by saying something is something else. It does not use like or as. A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 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