This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 472 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 472 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "Purple puppies like playing on the playground." This is an example of what sound device? A) Asonance. B) Alliteration. C) Consonance. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 2. The garden is a rainbow of colors. A) Metaphor. B) Idiom. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 3. During a poetry session, Hannah read out a line:'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers'. Scarlett asked Evelyn, what literary device is used in this line? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 4. Occurs when an author HINTS about events that willhappen in the story. A) Setting. B) Foreshadowing. C) Character. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foreshadowing. 5. The struggle between opposing forces or problem the character faces A) Climax. B) Theme. C) Simile. D) Conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Conflict. 6. What are the events or actions that happen throughout a story called? A) Climax. B) Conflict. C) Plot. D) Resolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Plot. 7. Shape Verse A) Words are arranged to create a picture that relates to the content of the poem. B) The first letter of each line forms a word or phrase. Can describe the subject. C) Fourteen lines with a specific rhyme scheme, written in 3 quatrains and ends with a couplet. D) Short, usually written in first person, expresses an emotion or an idea, or describes a scene, does not tell a story and is often musical. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Words are arranged to create a picture that relates to the content of the poem. 8. Identify the simile in the following sentence:'The waves crashed against the shore like thunder.'a) waves crashedb) against the shorec) like thunderd) The A) The. B) Waves crashed. C) Like thunder. D) Against the shore. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Like thunder. 9. Dunbar's line "We wear the mask that grins and lies" is an example of ..... A) Of similarity. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 10. It was raining and cold outside and Mr. St. Clair was irritated and grumbled, "Lovely weather outside, huh?" A) Verbal irony. B) Dramatic irony. C) Situational irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Verbal irony. 11. Poetry that has no regular rhyme scheme, rhythm or line length A) Free verse. B) Internal rhyme. C) Synecdoche. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free verse. 12. Making a comparison without using as or like is A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 13. What's the definition of assonance? A) The repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. B) The repetition of vowel sounds. C) A 'softer', more inoffensive word or phrase, used as a substitute for one considered too harsh or blunt, when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The repetition of vowel sounds. 14. A conflict is a struggle or clash between opposing characters, forces, or emotion A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 15. Dickinson makes a ..... when she compares marriage to a financial transaction A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 16. When words sound like the noises they make A) Onomatopoeia. B) Foreshadowing. C) Symbolism. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 17. What figure of speech can befound in the line CATILINANOBILE GENERE FUIT, SEDINGENIO MALO? A) Anaphora. B) Unrelated. C) Hyperbole. D) Chiasmus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chiasmus. 18. A person telling the story. / Una persona que cuenta la historia. A) Antagonist. B) Conflict. C) Protagonist. D) Narrator. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Narrator. 19. Which literary device is used when a reference is made to a well-known person, place, event, or literary work? A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Allusion. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 20. A brief reference to a specific person, historical event, place, literary text, etc to enhance meaning A) Symbolism. B) Irony. C) Allusion. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. ← 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