Literary Devices Quiz 430 (20 MCQs)

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1. When the fire alarm goes off, all of the students ..... out the nearest exit.

Correct Answer: B) Walk.

2. What is a Allusion?

Correct Answer: A) A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural significance.

3. Something that stands for something beyond itself.

Correct Answer: C) Symbol.

4. The narrator reveals the thoughts, feelings, and observations, of only one character in which point of view?

Correct Answer: A) Third person limited.

5. "So I learned to hold my tongue ..... "

Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole.

6. Which is the most effective rhetorical question?

Correct Answer: B) What would you do if you were dissatisfied with an expensive meal?.

7. Based on the situation, fire can have multiple meanings within a text. This is an example of what literary device?

Correct Answer: D) Symbolism.

8. A literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers; the atmosphere of a literary piece.

Correct Answer: C) Mood.

9. Rhetoric

Correct Answer: A) Ways to persuade people; the art of persuasion.

10. I am a rhythmic pattern in poetry that is usually repeated.

Correct Answer: C) Meter.

11. A character that is NOT described well by the author. You are not given much information about him/her

Correct Answer: D) Flat.

12. A reference to another person, place, thing, event, or text, with which the reader is presumably familiar

Correct Answer: D) Allusion.

13. Does figurative language give you a connotation or a denotation?

Correct Answer: A) Connotation.

14. Me, I always tell the truth. Even when I lie." Is an example of

Correct Answer: C) Paradox.

15. ..... silken, sad, uncertain and rustling. The 's' sound represents the usage of .....

Correct Answer: B) Consonance.

16. Repetition of the same sounds of the first syllable

Correct Answer: B) Alliteration.

17. Which of the following refers to when an animal or thing is given human characteristics?

Correct Answer: D) Personification.

18. Which type of conflict is the following scenario:The main character questions their own self worth.

Correct Answer: B) Internal.

19. You are as brave as a lion.

Correct Answer: A) Simile.

20. Recognize the metaphor in the sentences:

Correct Answer: C) The world is a stage.