This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 431 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 431 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. This is a literary device in which words that begin with the same sound are placed close together. A) Analogy. B) Alliteration. C) Allusion. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 2. What is MAN VS. SOCIETY? A) The central idea of a story. What the author wants you to take away from his story. B) The main character struggles against a law or rule. C) When the protagonist must struggle against a natural force. D) When the protagonist must struggle against another character. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The main character struggles against a law or rule. 3. A small whirl pool or whirlwind. A) Illiterate. B) Trill. C) Eddies. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Eddies. 4. NeYo:Said I'm so sick of love songs, so sad and slow A) Simile. B) Alliteration. C) Irony. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 5. Which sound device in poetry uses two or more words with the same ending sound? A) Rhyme. B) Rhyme Scheme. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 6. "Good vs evil" is a fairly common ..... across multiple genres and mediums. A) Tone. B) Moral. C) Theme. D) Motif. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Motif. 7. Which definition is correct for the following term:Exposition A) The moral or lesson the author communicates through the story's plot. B) The time and place of a work. C) The ending of a story, when loose ends are tied. D) The beginning of a story; sets up characters and setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The beginning of a story; sets up characters and setting. 8. Ryan jumps like a kangaroo A) Alliteration. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 9. MOOD is the feeling conveyed by the AUTHOR towards the story and the characters. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FALSE. 10. Tool used by the author to enliven and provide voice to the text (Ex. Dialogue, alliteration, imagery, etc.) A) Literary Device. B) Metaphor. C) Motif. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Literary Device. 11. An idea, symbol, pattern, or character-type, in a story. It's any story element that appears again and again in stories from cultures around the world and symbolizes something universal in the human experience. A) Mood. B) Archetype. C) Alliteration. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Archetype. 12. What is this an example of? "There's a light on the in the attic. Though the house is dark and shuttered, I can see a flickerin' flutter, And I know what it's about." A) Imagery. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 13. What's the definition of pun? A) A play on words; sometimes on different meanings of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words. B) When incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side. C) The mood of a piece of writing is its general atmosphere or emotional complexion-in short, the array of feelings the work evokes in the reader. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A play on words; sometimes on different meanings of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words. 14. TRUE or FALSE:a story cannot have more than one theme A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FALSE. 15. An object, character, or event that stands for something else A) Symbolism. B) Setting. C) Point of view. D) 1st person. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Symbolism. 16. Phrase comparing two or more words in an exaggeration A) Allusion. B) Slant Rhyme. C) Idiom. D) Epistrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Idiom. 17. I cried a river of tears as I heard the terrible news. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 18. DEFINITION:What is imagery? A) Language that compares two things using like or as. B) Language that gives human qualities to non-human things. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Language that gives human qualities to non-human things. 19. The overarching idea that permeates throughout the story and usually acts as a moral message to the audience. A) Plot. B) External Conflict. C) Internal Conflict. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Theme. 20. Giving human qualities to animals or objects A) Juxtaposition. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. ← 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