This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 467 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 467 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Protagonist is: A) A character that is different at the beginning and end of the story. B) The main character. C) The enemy of the main character. D) A character that is the same at the start and end of a story. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The main character. 2. To stop or cease A) Macabre. B) Beguile. C) Surcease. D) Dirges. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Surcease. 3. ..... is a device that moves an audience from the present moment in a chronological narrative to a scene in the past. Often, they are abrupt interjections that further explain a story or character with background information and memories. A) Foreshadowing. B) Flashback. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flashback. 4. How can we tell that Woodson (the writer) is telling us something important in her writing? A) She separates it from the other lines. B) She repeats it. C) She makes it rhyme. D) She puts parentheses ( ) around it. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She repeats it. 5. Caricature A) Spoken lines between characters. B) Exaggeration or distortion of a physical trait or behavior, to make a character appear comic or ridiculous. C) The most exciting moment of the story. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exaggeration or distortion of a physical trait or behavior, to make a character appear comic or ridiculous. 6. Which of the following is an example of first person? A) She, he. B) You. C) I, me, we. D) None of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) I, me, we. 7. Whoosh, passing breeze flags flutter and flap frog croaks, bird whistles babbling bubbles from tap-Lee Emmett A) Onomatopoeia. B) Hyperbole. C) Assonance. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 8. Simile or metaphor?That girl is as tough as nails. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 9. Which literary term is showcased in the following quote:Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun. A) Epiphany. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 10. In which point of view does the author speak directly to the readers using the pronouns 'you', 'your', and 'yours'? A) Second Person. B) Third Person. C) Omniscient Third-Person. D) First Person. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Second Person. 11. Writers use this to communicate positive or negative feelings in their writing. A) Connotation. B) Denotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Connotation. 12. Something that is not human is given human characteristics. A) Theme. B) Tone. C) Personification. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 13. The style in which an author writes. A) Dialect. B) Voice. C) Tone. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Voice. 14. A comparison that does not use "like" or "as" . Says one thing IS the other. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 15. Which word means a 14-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme, always ending with a couplet? A) Lyric. B) Ballad. C) Elegy. D) Sonnet. E) Limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sonnet. 16. Words that have opposite definitions in the ame phrase or sentence A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Oxymoron. D) Cliche. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oxymoron. 17. "The bee buzzed past the queen."What poetic device is this an example of? A) Mood. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 18. A play on words based on two different meanings of the same word or two different words with the same pronunciation. A) Irony. B) Pun. C) Allusion. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pun. 19. When someone says something that means the opposite of the literal meaning. A) Apostrophe. B) Verbal irony. C) Couplet. D) Tragedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Verbal irony. 20. What is the purpose of enjambment in poetry? A) Enjambment is used to create flow and continuity in poetry. B) Enjambment is used to emphasize the end of each line in poetry. C) Enjambment is used to add complexity and confusion in poetry. D) Enjambment is used to create pauses and breaks in poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Enjambment is used to create flow and continuity in poetry. ← 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