This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 455 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 455 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place or thing, or a personified abstract idea A) Synonym. B) Apostrophe. C) Synecdoche. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Apostrophe. 2. What is an account of person's life that is written by another person? A) Narrative. B) Autobiography. C) Anecdote. D) Biography. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Biography. 3. This is where and when a story takes place. A) The setup. B) The setting. C) The situation. D) The plot. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The setting. 4. "Beating around the bush" "Raining cats and dogs" A) Idiom. B) Allusion. C) Assonance. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 5. What is a reference to a well-known person, place, thing, or event that the writer assumes the reader will be familiar with? A) Literal. B) Figurative. C) Idiom. D) Literary Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Literary Allusion. 6. The article "A Capsule for Love" starts: "Insert coins, turn the knob, and ..... ta-da!" This is an example of: A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 7. Which of these is a type of alliteration? A) Consonance. B) Imagery. C) Onomatopoeia. D) For Whom the Bell Tolls. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consonance. 8. Repetition is the repeats of the same words or phrases to make an idea clearer. A) Yes and it has nothing to do with sounds. B) Yes and it focuses on sounds. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes and it has nothing to do with sounds. 9. The use of the word y'all is an example of ..... A) Irony. B) Dialect. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dialect. 10. Types of literary work A) Metaphor. B) Antagonist. C) Genre. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Genre. 11. Which of the following means: "deeply upset and agitated?" A) Enthralled. B) Infatuated. C) Distraught. D) Dilapidated. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Distraught. 12. An abstract idea or ideas that dominate a literary work; the message the author wants to convey. A) Theme. B) Plot. C) Setting. D) Moral. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme. 13. John is a doctor working against the clock to find a cure for a disease that is threatening the human race. Despite all odds, he meets the challenge. John is the A) Protagonist. B) Antagonist. C) Static character. D) Minor character. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Protagonist. 14. Krista sighed, "I'm drowning in an ocean of worksheets. I'll never get this done." A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration. E) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 15. I felt strong enough to take on the world! A) Similarly. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 16. A literary device that combines two contradictory or opposite words to create a new meaning. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Oxymoron. C) Paradox. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron. 17. Which literary device is used in the sentence 'Mark is a ghost around his roommates. They never see him!'? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 18. I am a type of sound device where sounds like BANG! POP! or POW! A) Imagery. B) Personification. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 19. 'The jet bombers going over, going over, going over, one two, one two, one two, six of them, nine of them, twelve of them, one and one and one and another and another and another, did all the screaming for him.' (p. 11) A) Alliteration. B) Hyperbole. C) Repetition. D) Parallel. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 20. Which pair of devices include the use of comparison? A) Simile and metaphor. B) Metaphor and alliteration. C) Hyperbole and alliteration. D) Simile and onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile and metaphor. ← 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