This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 419 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 419 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Appears to be self-contradictory but is actually true A) Paradox. B) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paradox. 2. A type of narrative that uses characters and plots to depict abstract ideas and themes. A) Allegory. B) Alliteration. C) Allusion. D) Anachronism. E) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allegory. 3. What is the purpose of a flashback? A) To introduce the reader to all of the characters. B) To give the reader a hint at what is going to happen in the future. C) To give the reader background information to learn more about a character or a situation. D) To give the reader the setting of the story. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To give the reader background information to learn more about a character or a situation. 4. The attitude of a writer, usually implied, toward the subject or audience A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Diction. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 5. Time travel is exhausting. It took me 200 million years to realize that. Well, actually it only took me a few seconds, but I first realized it about 200 million years ago. That was the first time that I traveled through time. "Try it!" said the mad scientist. "History needs you, " he told me. I went with my gut. What is the point of view? A) First person. B) Second person. C) Third person limited. D) Third person omniscient. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) First person. 6. Foreshadowing can create all of the following EXCEPT A) Anticipation. B) Suspense. C) Tension. D) Humor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Humor. 7. Read the sentence below. The word tranquil has a ..... connotation. The baby looked tranquil as he slept. A) Positive. B) Negative. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Positive. 8. A character who is presented to contrast another character showing the strengths and weaknesses of the two. A) Monologue. B) Aside. C) Foil. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Foil. 9. What's an example of an allusion? A) They see the icey S on your chest engraved in grayBe whipped I mightCause usually with my chips I'm tightBut only green I keep from you, is kryptonite. B) Speaking of annoying, any enjoyment of the show's final sketch hinges on the audience's threshold for hearing Kevin Hart scream the following words: "Pew, pew, pew, bop, bop" It happens three or four times during the course of this listening party for a bubbling rapper's forthcoming debut album. The idea of a rapper who tells all of his crew's secrets in his songs has a lot of potential, but this doesn't seem like the optimum version of that sketch. C) I've asked you not to do that a thousand times. D) My heart danced when he walked in the room. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They see the icey S on your chest engraved in grayBe whipped I mightCause usually with my chips I'm tightBut only green I keep from you, is kryptonite. 10. A character that does not change by the end of the story A) Flat character. B) Round character. C) Static character. D) Dynamic character. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Static character. 11. Knowing everything; having unlimited awareness or understanding A) 1st person point of view. B) 2nd person point of view. C) 3rd person point of view:objective. D) 3rd person point of view:limited. E) 3rd person point of view:omniscent. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) 3rd person point of view:omniscent. 12. ..... are a group of lines about an idea, like a paragraph. A) Line breaks. B) Lines. C) Stanzas. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanzas. 13. She swims like a fish. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 14. Identify the literary device in the following passage: "But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice" (King 2). A) Idiom. B) Alliteration. C) Juxtaposition. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 15. How does tone affect the meaning of a literary work? A) Tone has no impact on the meaning of a literary work. B) Tone only affects the author's interpretation of the work. C) Tone is determined solely by the reader's emotional response. D) Tone conveys the author's attitude and influences the reader's interpretation and emotional response. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tone conveys the author's attitude and influences the reader's interpretation and emotional response. 16. Is the following situation an example of an internal or external conflict? Joe can't decide whether to live with his mom or his dad. A) Internal conflict. B) External conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Internal conflict. 17. Mood in literature can be described as: A) The author's attitude towards his/her work. B) The feeling a text creates in the reader. C) The overall message about life, society or human nature. D) The use of foreshadowing to hint at tragic events. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The feeling a text creates in the reader. 18. Define Euphemism: A) To assign human qualities and attributes to objects or other non-human things. B) Is a repetition of similar sounds. C) Containing words that seem to contradict each other. D) A word or expression used in lieu of a harsher alternative. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A word or expression used in lieu of a harsher alternative. 19. "I wandered lonely as a cloud." This line from William Wordsworth's poem "Daffodils" is an example of: A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 20. What do Marley's chains symbolize? A) How much money he made when he was alive. B) How many people he wronged with his bad business practices. C) How many businesses he owned when he was alive. D) His materialism and greed. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) His materialism and greed. ← 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