This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 424 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 424 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The heir aired his assent to marry a lass who had his heart. A) Synecdoche. B) Metonymy. C) Alliteration. D) Anaphora. E) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Assonance. 2. The throngs unleashed, the ladies shopped for shoes. A) Personification. B) Repetition. C) Alliteration. D) Hyperbole. E) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 3. These are common structures in writing that make up the components of literature. We use these devices to help us interpret and analyze literary works. A) Literary Devices. B) Literary Themes. C) Literary Characters. D) Literary Criticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Literary Devices. 4. What is character motive? A) Smething that happens in the story which makes the character to do something. B) The main setting. C) The atmosphere and feeling that the author's creates to the reader. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Smething that happens in the story which makes the character to do something. 5. Two consecutive lines of verse with end rhyme; expresses a complete unit of thought. A) Stanza. B) Ode. C) Couplet. D) Form. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Couplet. 6. What literary device was used in the following example, "A cold wind rushed up the staircase." A) Simile. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Foreshadowing. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 7. "She had a very thin face like the dial of a small clock seen faintly in a dark room in the middle of a night." A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Pun. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 8. "It was the color of flaming bronze and it was very large. And the sky around it was a blazing blue tile color. " A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Imagery. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 9. Device that spells out the way a sound would be spelled or appear in writing A) Personification. B) Rhyme. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 10. "The student is a star", is an example of ..... A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Imagery. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 11. The denotation of the word "home" is a place where someone lives. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 12. Splash! Boom! Bang! Whoosh! A) Imagery. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 13. Don't act like a Romeo in front of her. A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. C) Symbolism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 14. What is it called when an author uses a scene that interrupts and takes the narrative back in time? A) Flashback. B) Foreshadowing. C) Metaphor. D) Imagery. E) Personification tagsCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.4. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Flashback. 15. What is the ending, where everything is wrapped up and the questions are answered called? A) Exposition. B) Resolution. C) Falling action. D) Conclusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Resolution. 16. "There's a letter for you." "For me?" Jackson was pleased. He didn't get that much mail. "Where?" "On the coffee table." The envelope was pink. There were yellow roses on the flap. His name and address were in pencil. There was nothing to indicate danger. What context clues told us that he was unsure about the letter? A) "He didn't get that much mail". B) "There was nothing to indicate danger". C) "The envelope was pink. There were yellow roses on the flap.". D) ""For me?" Jackson was pleased.". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "There was nothing to indicate danger". 17. The deliberate downplay of a situation to create humor or special effects A) Understatement. B) Idiom. C) Dynamic character. D) Setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Understatement. 18. Example:They roam the lonesome roads and never go home. A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. C) Assonance. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assonance. 19. Fresh fried fish, Fish fresh fried, Fried fish fresh, Fish fried fresh. A) Alliteration. B) Free Verse. C) Limerick. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 20. When Caesar leaves out "esse" after a fourth principal part, he is using the literary device called A) Growing tricolon. B) Anaphora. C) Synchesis. D) Ellipsis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ellipsis. ← 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