This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 439 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 439 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "The word girl had formerly seemed to me innocent and unburdened, like the word child; now it appeared that it was no such thing. A girl was not, as I had supposed, simply what I was; it was what I had to become. It was a definition, always touched with reproach and disappointment." A) Analogy. B) Unconnected. C) Connotation. D) Hyperbaton. E) Periphrasis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Connotation. 2. "Fair is foul, and foul is fair." Who is speaking in this line? What is the context? A) Banquo says this to Macbeth after he kills Macdonwald. B) The three witches say this before meeting with Macbeth to give him the prophecy. C) Macbeth says this after he receives the prophecy from the three witches. D) King Duncan says this to Macbeth when he awards him with the Thane of Cawdor title. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The three witches say this before meeting with Macbeth to give him the prophecy. 3. When the current setting is interupted to go back in time to learn more about a character or a situation, it is called ..... A) Foreshadow. B) Flashback. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flashback. 4. An object that stands for something beyond itself. A) Theme. B) Tone. C) Mood. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbol. 5. Which Literary Device is in the following sentence:Your smile is like the sun rising on a clear summer day. A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 6. What is author's attitude? A) What the author chooses to write about. B) How an author feels about the subject. C) The author's word choice. D) How the author organizes the text. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) How an author feels about the subject. 7. A work with two levels of meaning, a literal one and a symbolic one defines the following term A) Simile. B) Allegory. C) Irony. D) Paraphrase. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allegory. 8. Which idiom goes the best with this sentence? I have a problem. A) I'm getting a hatI. B) I'm in a pickle. C) Don't put all of your eggs in one basket. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I'm in a pickle. 9. All are advantages of 1st person Point-of-View EXCEPT ..... A) Pulls you into the story. B) Makes you identify with the characters. C) A Narrator can move around in time and space. D) You feel for the characters. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A Narrator can move around in time and space. 10. What is a story with a fully developed theme but is significantly shorter and less elaborate than a novel? A) Novella. B) Short story. C) Narrative. D) Tale. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Short story. 11. If the story goes back in time to show you something, the author is using: A) Foreshadowing. B) Hyperbole. C) Flashback. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Flashback. 12. Which word gives the best overall description of Fezziwig? A) Generous. B) Businesslike. C) Greedy. D) Angry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Generous. 13. An indirect reference. A) Allusion. B) Alliteration. C) Allegory. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 14. Puritan writing, like Of Plymouth Plantation, can be classified as A) Plain Style. B) Transcendentalism. C) Indirect Characterization. D) Romanticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plain Style. 15. "With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the genuine discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, pray together; to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom forever, knowing that we will be free one day." This section of "I Have a Dream" demonstrates an example of: A) Anaphora. B) Epistrophe. C) Folding. D) Interplay. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anaphora. 16. It is a literary device where words are used in quick succession and begin with letters belonging to the same sound group. A) Alliteration. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 17. In literature, the element that makes readers feel certain feelings or emotions because of the author's word choice A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Theme. D) Topic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mood. 18. Author's/narrator's emotional attitude toward the subject in the story A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Dialogue. D) Dialect. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 19. While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping A) Alliteration. B) Idiom. C) Imagery. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 20. A forest in the middle of the night is the ..... of "The Interlopers." A) Dramatic irony. B) Symbol. C) Conflict. D) Setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Setting. ← 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