This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 466 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 466 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. This is written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure: A) Song. B) Poetry. C) Prose. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prose. 2. An inanimate object receives human qualities A) Onomatopoeia. B) Personification. C) Pun. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 3. A writer uses to produce a special effect in his writing and to help readers understand his writing on a deeper level. A) Rhetorical Devices. B) Literary Devices. C) Rhetorical Questions. D) Poetic Devices. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Literary Devices. 4. Lauren, normally shy, was nervous and didn't speak during the entire meeting. Her coworker said, "Lauren, if you could stop talking so much I'd really appreciate it." A) Verbal. B) Situational. C) Dramatic. D) Not Ironic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Verbal. 5. Which of these is an example of Allusion? A) Flaming Ice. B) Four-leafed clover. C) The boy was busy as a bee. D) "Chocolate is my kryptonite". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "Chocolate is my kryptonite". 6. A word that imitates the natural sounds of a thing. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Hyperbole. C) Point of view. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 7. Which is the best example of an onomatopoeia? A) Dumb. B) Fast. C) Hiss. D) Rush. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hiss. 8. In "The Gift of the Magi, " what does the man sell to buy his wife a Christmas gift? A) Hair combs. B) A watch. C) A watch chain. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A watch. 9. What is Inferring? A) Bringing together:what is written in the text [evidence-quotes] What is already known by you as the reader Inferring helps you to build meaning about the texts. B) Bringing together:what is not written in the text What is already known by you as the reader Inferring helps you to build meaning about the texts. C) What is already known by you as the reader. D) Bringing together:what is written in the text [evidence-quotes] Inferring helps you to predict what will happen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bringing together:what is written in the text [evidence-quotes] What is already known by you as the reader Inferring helps you to build meaning about the texts. 10. Word pair that are opposite in meaning from one another A) Allusion. B) Irony. C) Oxymoron. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oxymoron. 11. The theme is a lesson learned; the moral of the story. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 12. When one thing represents another. For example-the stripes on the flag represent the blood shed of our soldiers A) Foreshadowing. B) Allusion. C) Oxymoron. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbol. 13. A literary device that alludes to, or suggests, a plot point later in the story. A) Personification. B) Foreshadowing. C) Irony. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foreshadowing. 14. What is the paragraph foreshadowing? 'Peter I don't think we should jump out of a plane like this.' Allison relax I'm the King and you're my general. What could go wrong? A) Something goes wrong. B) Nothing goes wrong. C) Allison inherits the throne. D) They jump off a plane. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Something goes wrong. 15. The Statue of Liberty is an example of a ..... A) Symbol. B) Visual. C) Imagery. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Symbol. 16. You should make every attempt to bury the hatchet. A) Irony. B) Sarcasm. C) Paradox. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Idiom. 17. When the sound of a word suggests its meaning A) Symbol. B) Dialogue. C) Theme. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 18. A commonly recurring element throughout a work: A) Foreshadowing. B) Moral. C) Motif. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Motif. 19. An author's use of images and symbols to represent other ideas or realities A) Hyperbole. B) Imagination. C) Symbolism. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbolism. 20. To show how something is DIFFERENT is to A) Contrast. B) Compare. C) Foreshadow. D) Conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Contrast. ← 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