This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 435 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 435 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What literary device is most obvious in this passage? "Remember, Cinderella, " warned her fairy godmother, "you must leave the ball at midnight. If you stay later, everything will turn back as it was. Your coach will become a pumpkin again. Your gown will become rags. Promise me you will remember." "Of course, I'll remember, " said Cinderella, but as her coach carried her toward the ball, the warning was replaced in her mind with images of dancing and music. A) Flashback. B) Foreshadowing. C) Symbolism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foreshadowing. 2. Sally and Jane show up to school wearing the exact same shirt, pants, and shoes. A) Verbal. B) Situational. C) Dramatic. D) Not Ironic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Not Ironic. 3. Which literary device is shown here?44 ..... inque tuo sedisti, Sisyphe, saxo. A) Unrelated. B) Polyptoton. C) Chiasmus. D) Apostrophe . Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Apostrophe . 4. A sentence that is a question. A) Declarative. B) Imperative. C) Interrogative. D) Exclamatory. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Interrogative. 5. Figure of speech that combines to opposing contradictory ideas A) Allusion. B) Oxymoron. C) Motif. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron. 6. What is the purpose of allusion in a story? A) To create suspense and build anticipation. B) To compare two unlike things using like or as. C) To reference another work of literature, history, or culture. D) To exaggerate and emphasize a point. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To reference another work of literature, history, or culture. 7. The third person point of view in which the author narrates the story, knows everything about the characters, and can enter anyone's mind is called: A) Third person limited point of view. B) Third person omniscient point of view. C) Third person unlimited point of view. D) Third person omnipotent point of view. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Third person omniscient point of view. 8. The stairs creaked as I tried to sneak down them. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. E) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 9. In the plot, what follows the climax or conflict? A) The rising action. B) The resolution. C) The exposition. D) The inciting incident. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The resolution. 10. What is the definition for 'Point of View'? A) Something in a story representing a bigger idea/something else. B) The way the author writes to make the reader feel a certain way. C) The way/how the story is being told (1st person, 3rd person, etc.). D) What we learn from reading the story. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The way/how the story is being told (1st person, 3rd person, etc.). 11. Motive A) A character's reason for doing what he/she does. B) Words that imitate, or sound like, the actions they describe. C) The author's attitude toward a subject, revealed by choice of words and details. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A character's reason for doing what he/she does. 12. What happens when the outcome is contrary to what was or might have been expected? A) Sarcasm. B) Irony. C) Assonance. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irony. 13. Which of the following is personification? A) The waves crashed against the shore. B) The cat sat on the mat. C) His eyes were like stars. D) The wind murmured through the trees. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The wind murmured through the trees. 14. "Then quickly, like a lock sliding into place, something was decided in his mind." A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 15. A recurring image, idea or symbol that develops or explains a theme A) Motif. B) Denotation. C) Epiphany. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Motif. 16. "I noticed [ ..... ] that there was a big shift in the way things were. A monumental shift. A seismic shift. Maybe even a cosmic shift."This is an example of: A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Allusion. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 17. Pamela never had time for her grandmother. She resented that they lived together and rarely gave her the time of day. By the end of the story she realized how much her grandmother meant to her and felt terribly about how she'd treated her throughout the years. A) Pamela is a flat character. B) Pamela is a round character. C) Pamela is a static character. D) Pamela is a dynamic character. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pamela is a dynamic character. 18. I came, I saw, I conquered. A) Unconnected. B) Multi-connector. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Unconnected. 19. Verbal Irony is also called A) Talking back. B) Sassing. C) Sarcasm. D) Meme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sarcasm. 20. What is a commonly used word or phrase used to convey a figurative meaning? It's understood to imply something quite different from what the words mean directly. A) Metaphor. B) Oxymoron. C) Dramatic Irony. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Idiom. ← 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