This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 42 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 42 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The landlady's dog and parrot are stuffed. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 2. What is an Critical Inquiry? A) Specific techniques, elements, and devices an author uses to develop writing. B) To tell or write about something using sensory details that allow the reader to visualize the topic. C) Process of gathering information and ideas from multiple texts with multiple perspectives. D) The power to affect or change indirectly but in an important way. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Process of gathering information and ideas from multiple texts with multiple perspectives. 3. Mr Smith has 4 daughters. Each of his daughters has a brother. How many children does Mr Smith have? A) 4. B) 5. C) 6. D) 8. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 5. 4. In Greek mythology, Achilles's mother dips him in a river that protects his body wherever it touches. His heel does not get wet, so it is the one part of his body left unprotected. During the Trojan War, an arrow hits Achilles in the heel and kills him.Red velvet cupcakes were Stacy's Achilles's heel when she was trying to eat more healthily. In the above sentence "Achilles's heel" is an example of a A) Pun. B) Allusion. C) Dynamic character. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 5. Giving human characteristics to something nonhuman A) Allusion. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 6. He was crazy as a fox. A) Metaphor. B) Allusion. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 7. Which literary device is shown here?4 adfuit ille quidem, sed nec sollemnia verba5 nec laetos vultus nec felix attulit omen. A) Anaphora. B) Golden line. C) Hyperbaton. D) Growing tricolon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Growing tricolon. 8. An exaggerated way of saying something not intended to be taken literally in order to prove a point A) Hyperbole. B) Alliteration. C) Theme. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 9. Select the example of a metaphor. A) Her eyes are like the sun. B) Her eyes are the sun. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Her eyes are the sun. 10. The phrase "dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before" is an example of which literary device? A) Assonance. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Metaphor . Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 11. What do you call language that is slang or informal, such as giving someone a "guilt trip" or getting something "messed up." A) Abstract. B) Concrete. C) Colloquialism. D) Ambiguity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Colloquialism. 12. Using a mild or gentle phrase instead of a blunt, embarrassing, or painful one A) Hyperbole. B) Hubris. C) Hamartia. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Euphemism. 13. Symbolic image or idea that appears frequently in a story. A) Narrative. B) Paradox. C) Motif. D) Satire. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Motif. 14. What is the purpose of using irony in literature? A) The purpose of using irony in literature is to emphasize the main theme. B) The purpose of using irony in literature is to make the story more predictable. C) The purpose of using irony in literature is to create a contrast between what is expected and what actually happens. D) The purpose of using irony in literature is to confuse the reader. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The purpose of using irony in literature is to create a contrast between what is expected and what actually happens. 15. A word, phrase, or idea that is repeated for effect A) Repetition. B) Theme. C) Voice. D) Characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 16. Kopper is the apple of my eye. A) Alliteration. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Idiom. 17. What is the meaning of the allusion?My friend was being a total Scrooge when I asked her to share her M&Ms. A) Not wanting to share. B) Excited about sharing. C) Throwing them all away. D) Counting the M&Ms. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Not wanting to share. 18. Central Idea. A) The entire point the author makes, what the text is about. B) The reason why an author writes a text. C) The way an author feels about the subject they are writing about. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The entire point the author makes, what the text is about. 19. Freaky Fran fried four frogs. A) Alliteration. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 20. A literary technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters, and their actions are placed side by side, for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts is called A) Connotation. B) Foreshadowing. C) Juxtaposition. D) Sarcasm. 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