This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 470 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 470 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. This is the part of the story that notifies the reader of the story's characters, setting and conflict: A) Resolution. B) Exposition. C) Conclusion. D) Rising action. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exposition. 2. Rage, Rage against the dying day is an example of ..... A) Repetition. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 3. Repeated consonant sounds at the ends of words On the top of the step he will tip his cap. A) Alliteration. B) Consonance. C) Assonance. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Consonance. 4. Which of the following choices is an example of a metaphor? A) She is as sly as a cat. B) Traffic is taking a million years!. C) The camera loves her. D) My parents are early birds. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) My parents are early birds. 5. What is epistrophe? A) The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of a phrase or sentence. B) The repetition of a word or phrase at the end of a phrase or sentence. C) The repetition of the last word of the previous sentence in the first word of the next. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The repetition of a word or phrase at the end of a phrase or sentence. 6. Description or figurative language (visual, auditory, olfactory, kinesthetic, tactile, & gustatory) A) Irony. B) The sets. C) Theme. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 7. Hints or clues about what will happen later in the story. A) Blank verse. B) Foreshadowing. C) Allusion. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foreshadowing. 8. A scene in a story that interrupts the action of the story to show an event that happened at an earlier time. A) Foreshadowing. B) Flashback. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flashback. 9. A character that adapts, changes, or grows during the course of the story A) Round character. B) Flat character. C) Dynamic character. D) Static character. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dynamic character. 10. A style of poem written with a consistent rhythm of 10 syllables per line and 5 "heartbeats" per line. A) Dramatic Irony. B) Free Verse. C) Iambic Pentameter. D) Blank Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Iambic Pentameter. 11. Shelly felt relieved. She had finally finished her homework, completed her chores, and written a long-overdue thank you note to her grandmother. Her relief wouldn't last for long, though. Her mother knocked on the bedroom door and walked in. A) Foreshadowing. B) Flashback. C) Suspense. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foreshadowing. 12. Complete the ANALOGY Socks are to Feet as Gloves are to ..... A) Hands. B) Winter. C) Mittens. D) Hamburgers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hands. 13. The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning closely connected words. A) Hyperbole. B) Alliteration. C) Symbol. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 14. Identify the literary device in the sentence:'The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.' A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 15. Which literary device references something else? A) Simile. B) Foreshadowing. C) Epiphany. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 16. This literary device gives human characteristics to animals or objects. A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 17. The feeling the reader takes away with him or her after reading is known as the ..... A) Imagery. B) Tone. C) Theme. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mood. 18. Tall Tale A) A literary work that uses the familiar spoken form of language, sentence after sentence. B) A writer's account of some other person's life. C) A humorous, exaggerated story often based on the life of a real person. The exaggerations build until the character can accomplish impossible things. D) Everything that happens in a story. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A humorous, exaggerated story often based on the life of a real person. The exaggerations build until the character can accomplish impossible things. 19. Which sentence is written in second person point of view? A) Erin did not want to go to the grocery store. B) You did not want to go to the grocery store. C) Mariah did not want to go to the grocery store. D) I did not want to go to the grocery store. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) You did not want to go to the grocery store. 20. The true pioneers of democracy were the ancient Greeks. As the article below shows, the men who designed the structure of the U.S. government were heavily influenced by ancient Greek political thought. The democratic form of government they developed was in many ways modeled on ancient Greek democracy. What do you think influence means? A) Decisions regarding language and content made by an author when writing a text. B) Something that is made or created. C) The power to affect or change indirectly but in an important way. D) The act of applying a skill or concept. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The power to affect or change indirectly but in an important way. ← 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