This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 44 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 44 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Extended metaphor A) Something that stands for or represents something else, especially an object representing an abstraction. B) Consciously directed methods of organizing and presenting thoughts in writing. While there are many rhetorical strategies, they generally fall into four major categories:Description, Exposition, Narration, and Persuasion. C) Is a relationship of contrast between what an audience is led to expect during a particular situation within the unfolding of a story's plot and a situation that ends up actually resulting later on. D) A comparison which is carried throughout a stanza or an entire poem between two very different things. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A comparison which is carried throughout a stanza or an entire poem between two very different things. 2. The latest craze or fad; everyone has to have it. A) Bias. B) Binge. C) Bandwagon effect. D) Band-aid effect. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bandwagon effect. 3. ..... is an intentional exaggeration not intended to be taken literally. A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Imagery. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 4. This is a literary device through which writer present their characters and setting in a way that it appeals to the physical senses of sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste along with feelings and movement. It requires the writer to provide detailed descriptions that allow the reader to experience the character or the setting through the author's eyes. A) Presentation. B) Personification. C) Imagery. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 5. What is the main function of the protagonist in a story? A) To create conflict. B) To support the antagonist. C) To drive the plot forward. D) To provide comic relief. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To drive the plot forward. 6. ModeThe various processes of communication-listening, speaking, reading/viewing and writing/creating. Modes are also used to refer to the semiotic (meaning making) resources associated with these communicative processes, such as sound, print, image and gesture. A) Author. B) Text. C) Context. D) Audience. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Text. 7. Pitter Patter A) Metaphor. B) Consonance. C) Imagery. D) Cacophony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Consonance. 8. Which literary term is showcased in the following quote:The earth shook a little and we heard the rat-a-tat-tat of gunfire. A) Epiphany. B) Metaphor. C) Symbolism. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 9. 'Denham's Dentifrice, Denham's Dandy Dental Detergent, Denham's Dentifrice Dentifrice Dentifrice' (p. 75) A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Repetition. D) Word choice. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 10. An ordinary object, event, animal, or person to which we have attached extraordinary meaning and significance A) Allusion. B) Literary Devices. C) Symbolism. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbolism. 11. In Toy Story, human characters are not aware that the toys speak and move, but the audience is. A) Verbal irony. B) Dramatic irony. C) Situational irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dramatic irony. 12. Read the following sentence from "Thank You, Mr. Falker" ."But when Trisha tried, the numbers were like a stack of blocks, wobbly and ready to fall."The author's use of figurative language in this sentence helps the reader- A) Understand why Trisha has difficulty reading. B) Predict how Mr. Falker will help Trisha learn to read. C) Visualize the types of books Trisha is reading. D) Infer that Trisha is better at reading than math. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Understand why Trisha has difficulty reading. 13. Conflict is the ..... between opposing forces. A) Struggle. B) Friendship. C) Relationship. D) Story. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Struggle. 14. When the opposite of what you expect to happens occurs A) Foreshadowing. B) Simile. C) Irony. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Irony. 15. What type of conflict takes place inside of a character's mind? A) Man vs. man. B) Man vs. society. C) Man vs. nature. D) Man vs. self. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Man vs. self. 16. One summer's day, a merry Grasshopper was dancing, singing and playing his violin with all his heart. He saw an Ant passing by working hard to store food for the winter. "Come and sing with me instead of working so hard, " said the Grasshopper "Let's have fun together." "I must store food for the winter, " said the Ant, " and I advise you to do the same." "Don't worry about winter, it's still very far away, " said the Grasshopper, laughing at him. But the Ant wouldn't listen and continued to work. When winter came, the starving Grasshopper went to the Ant's house and humbly begged for something to eat. "If you had listened to my advice in the summer you would not now be in need, " said the Ant. "I'm afraid you will have to go without supper, " and he closed the door. What is the theme? A) Share with your neighbor. B) Work before you play. C) Be respectful. D) Don't be greedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Work before you play. 17. A struggle between a character and his or her own thoughts, feelings, or emotions. A) Internal Conflict. B) External Conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Internal Conflict. 18. What type of conflict is this:The Toronto Maple Leafs playing the Boston Bruins in the Stanley Cup Final. A) Man vs. Man-external. B) Man vs. Society-external. C) Man vs. Self-internal. D) Man vs. Nature-external. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Man vs. Man-external. 19. Giving human qualities to nonhuman objects A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 20. Read the following words:synchronize synonym synthesize The root syn most likely means ..... A) Same, similar. B) Different, opposite. C) Near. D) Far. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Same, similar. ← 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