This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 423 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 423 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Why do authors use allusions? A) A. To make meaningful connections between texts. B) B. To engage readers in an inside joke. C) C. To provide new and meaningful connections to the plot, characters, or setting. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 2. A question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer. A) Interrogative. B) You. C) Rhetorical. D) Symploce. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhetorical. 3. "The Book Thief had struck for the first time-the beginning of an illustrious career, " is an example of what type of literary device? A) Flashback. B) Irony. C) Theme. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Foreshadowing. 4. A mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarassing A) Anthropomorphism. B) Epithet. C) Euphemism. D) Allegory. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Euphemism. 5. "I am all ears" is an example of a ..... A) Hyperbole. B) Idiom. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Idiom. 6. In a school play, Crystal portrayed a character who was as cunning as a fox. Which literary device is being used in this description? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 7. 'Your beauty was a web of delight.' is an example of: A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 8. My math teacher is he who must not be named. A) Parallelism. B) Allusion. C) Allegory. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 9. When Elizabeth was brought into the courtroom in Act 3, the audience knew John had already admitted to adultery but she had no idea. This is an example of: A) Person vs society conflict. B) Foreshadowing. C) Symbolism. D) Dramatic irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dramatic irony. 10. Reference to a particular event or character in classical works of literature. A) Allusion. B) Classical Allusion. C) Imagery. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Classical Allusion. 11. The feeling or atmosphere a piece of literature creates in the reader A) Tone. B) Symbolism. C) Imagery. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mood. 12. Which sentence has the most energetic tone? A) It is raining heavily, and I don't have an umbrella!. B) It is raining heavily, I can't believe that I don't have an umbrella!. C) It is raining heavily, and I don't have an umbrella; let's splash and have fun!. D) It is raining heavily, and I hate it!. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It is raining heavily, and I don't have an umbrella; let's splash and have fun!. 13. Which is NOT an example of a literary device? A) Symbols. B) Imagery. C) Jane Schaffer format. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jane Schaffer format. 14. The use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning A) Imagery. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration. E) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Onomatopoeia. 15. What is a word which imitates the natural sounds of a thing? A) Paradox. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Idiom. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 16. What is the name of a quote or poem used before a story begins to give context? A) Epithet. B) Oxymoron. C) Epigraph. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Epigraph. 17. Which of the following is when the "Author reveals a character to the reader by directly stating a character's traits in the text" A) Indirect characterization. B) Imagery. C) Setting. D) Direct characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Direct characterization. 18. Author or speaker's attitude towards the work is: ..... A) Foreshadowing. B) Indirect characterization. C) Theme. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tone. 19. Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone Scrooge! A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 20. They are one personThey are two aloneThey are three togetherThey are for each other A) Alliteration. B) Anaphora. C) Hyperbole. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anaphora. ← 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