This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 446 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 446 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Figure of speech that directly compares two things using 'like' or 'as' A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Oxymoron. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 2. Deafening silence, organized chaos, cruelly kind, insanely logical, etc. A) Metonym. B) Oxymoron. C) Paradox. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron. 3. A comparison using "like, " "as, " "so, " "than, " or words such as "resemble" or "compare" A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Euphemism. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 4. What literary device is displayed below:"His heart was truly broken." A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 5. Anything (object, animal, event, person or place) that represents itself but also stands for something else on a figurative level. A) Extended metaphor. B) Theme. C) Symbol. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbol. 6. In the poem, "eve and the snake" Jackie wishes God would give them another chance to do what? A) Eat the apple. B) Attend Kingdom Hall. C) Forget the past. D) Say no to the snake. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Say no to the snake. 7. Time and place of a story's action A) Setting. B) Imagery. C) Pun. D) Adage. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Setting. 8. True or FalseA literary device is any specific aspect of literature, or a particular work, which we can recognize, identify, interpret and/or analyze. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 9. Tate stamps his feet and crosses his arms. How do you think he feels? A) Joyful. B) Tearful. C) Lonely. D) Angry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Angry. 10. I was so angry that I kicked an elephant all the way to Mars! A) Hyperbole. B) Idiom. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 11. Has gods or godesses and often accounts for how something came to be A) Fairy tale. B) Legend. C) Myth. D) Tall tale. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Myth. 12. There go the loves that wither [dry up], The old loves with wearier wings; And all dead years draw thither [there] And disastrous things; Dead dreams of days forsaken, Blind buds that snows have shaken, Wild leaves that winds have taken, Red strays of ruined springs ..... And love, grown faint and fretful With lips but half regretful Sighs, and with eyes forgetful Weeps that no loves endure [last]. QUESTION:What mood do the details in the poem convey? A) Wastefulness and excess. B) Happiness. C) Sadness and despair. D) Mistrust. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sadness and despair. 13. He's as flaky as a snowstorm. A) Hyperbole. B) Analogy. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Analogy. 14. Language intended to create an emotional response. A) Feeling words. B) Emotional language. C) Connotations. D) Emotive language. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Emotive language. 15. What is the same or similar vowel sound repeated in the stressed syllable of a word, followed by uncommon consonant sounds. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assonance. 16. Which choice is a figure of speech in which the absent or dead are spoken to as if present and inanimate objects as if they were living? A) Archetype. B) Allusion. C) Apostrophe. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Apostrophe. 17. Which literary term is showcased in the following quote:Then I glanced up and saw a pair of kites, red with long blue tails, soaring in the sky. A) Epiphany. B) Flashback. C) Imagery. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 18. What is the best definition of metaphor? A) Successive words beginning with the same sound. B) When the opposite happens than what you expect. C) Making a non-person into a person. D) Comparing two unlike things. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Comparing two unlike things. 19. The example highlighted below is an example of? Her hair is a shimmering waterfall. A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Rhyme. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 20. What is the purpose of foreshadowing in a story? A) To create suspense and build anticipation. B) To compare two unlike things using like or as. C) To convey a deeper meaning beyond the literal interpretation. D) To exaggerate and emphasize a point. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To create suspense and build anticipation. ← 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