This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 468 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 468 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who is the protagonist in Illegal? A) Kwame. B) Ebo. C) Light. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ebo. 2. I (won't/want) to (hear/here) (you're/your) favorite album (fore/for/four) my birthday! A) Won't/hear/your/four. B) Want/hear/your/for. C) Want/here/you're/fore. D) Won't/hear/you're/four. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Want/hear/your/for. 3. Which literary device is being used in the following sentence:'The waves danced in the sunlight'? A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 4. How does figurative language impact a story? A) It makes the story easier to understand. B) It helps the reader make connections within the story. C) It makes the story more interesting to read. D) It makes the story funnier. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It helps the reader make connections within the story. 5. During the flood, he noted, "It's a little damp outside." A) Paradox. B) Foreshadowing. C) Understatement. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Understatement. 6. She had eyes like the stars. What literary device are they using here? A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Rhyming words. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 7. A literary reference to a familiar person, place, thing, or event A) Allusion. B) Help me. C) Analogy. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 8. The process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character A) Foreshadowing. B) Conflict. C) Characterization. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Characterization. 9. Where do we live? What city? A) Hutto. B) USA. C) Texas. D) Austin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hutto. 10. What is the use of figurative language to appeal to one or more of the five senses? A) Imagery. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 11. "Whispered" is an example of what literary device? A) Simile. B) Assonance. C) Personification. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 12. When the author uses an object or image to represent a larger idea or feeling A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Symbolism. D) Suspense. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbolism. 13. Which definition is correct for the following term:External Conflict A) A disagreement or altercation within a character's mind/conscience. B) The character who goes against the main character. C) A disagreement or altercation between two or more characters. D) A contrast between what we think will happen versus what actually happens. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A disagreement or altercation between two or more characters. 14. We look in toward the Milky Way, in toward the system of Sol, in toward the planet Earth, in toward the nation of China, and, finally, in toward a lonely hut on a lonely hill A) Anaphora. B) Epistrophe. C) Symploce. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anaphora. 15. Giving an inanimate object human or lifelike qualities A) Oxymoron. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 16. The high point of conflict, when tension is greatest A) Resolution. B) Exposition. C) Climax. D) Rising Action. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Climax. 17. Which country finally published ANIMAL FARM first? A) India. B) England. C) Russia. D) America. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) England. 18. Identify the adjective in this sentence:Beautiful music filled the room. A) Music. B) Beautiful. C) Filled. D) Room. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Beautiful. 19. A comparison of two seemingly unlikethings using the word "like" or "as" A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 20. What is the device exemplified by Eliza Doolittle's use of the word "abso-bloomin'-lutely" ? A) Cacophony. B) Tmesis. C) Litotes. D) Chiasmus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tmesis. ← 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