This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 479 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 479 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "The Interlopers" gave both characters' perspectives, which means it is written in A) First person. B) Third person limited. C) Third person omniscient. D) ". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Third person omniscient. 2. Which type of irony is where an event or action shows the OPPOSITE of what is expected? A) Situational. B) Verbal. C) Sarcasm. D) Traditional. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Situational. 3. Which of the following is alliteration? A) She sells seashells by the seashore. B) The mind is a computer. C) The wind murmured through the trees. D) The rain came down, down, down. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She sells seashells by the seashore. 4. Anecdote A) A short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person. B) An idea that many people have about a person or a group of people that is usually untrue or only partly true. C) An idea, symbol, pattern, or character type in a story. D) The way an author describes a character. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person. 5. Find the simile in the sentences: A) Her smile was as bright as the sun on a summer day. B) Her smile was ice on a winter day. C) Her smile was pillow soft. D) Her smile was beautiful. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Her smile was as bright as the sun on a summer day. 6. What do you call five pairs of unstressed and stressed syllable in poetry? Example:By her fine foot, straight leg, and quivering thigh ..... A) Symbolism. B) Comic relief. C) Iambic pentameter. D) Blank verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Iambic pentameter. 7. Which of these sentences contains alliteration? A) The waves washed lazily along the shore. B) The Great Wall basked sinuously in the sunlight like some magnificent snake. C) London was a maze of bustling streets and secret alleyways. D) The mountain range brooded moodily beneath the thunder clouds. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The waves washed lazily along the shore. 8. Which is an example of third person point of view? A) I made a sandwich. We went to the store to buy some milk. B) First, gather your ingredients. Then add 1 cup of sugar to the batter. C) He went to the store to buy milk so she could make brownies. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He went to the store to buy milk so she could make brownies. 9. Interrupted Sentence-The thought of a sentence is interrupted by evidence or details, usually set off by a dash (2 hyphens). A) "My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition toread departed, the cheerful spark thatlingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; andbehold a man transformed into abrute!" (38). B) Stops the reader-to show importance of added detail-before writer finishes his idea.Can emphasize length of list-it seems never ending-or the inevitability or in es capability of a situation. C) Robert E. Lee was a foe without hate, a friend without treachery, a soldier without cruelty. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stops the reader-to show importance of added detail-before writer finishes his idea.Can emphasize length of list-it seems never ending-or the inevitability or in es capability of a situation. 10. After the teacher took attendance, Sandra was shocked when she saw that James was back in class. Sandra thought about what happened last week at school when James was involved in several fights with other students. What is this an example of? A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Foreshadowing. D) Flashback. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Flashback. 11. "Mark is as fast as a cheetah." This is an example of: A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Idiom. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 12. What is this an example of? "The Turtle" 'breaks from the blue-black skin of the water, dragging her shell with its mossy scutes' A) Imagery. B) Simile. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 13. What type of figurative language is shown? The flower hugged the earth after being blown over by the storm. A) Personification. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 14. The conclusion, the tying together of all the threads A) Resolution. B) Exposition. C) Conflict. D) Climax. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Resolution. 15. A commercial that is showcasing the St. Jude's Foundation by playing sad music and showing sick kids is an example of which type of appeal? A) Pathos. B) Both. C) Logos. D) Weather. E) Ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pathos. 16. What is a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things using the words like or as? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Sensory Details. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 17. What is a 'Major Character'? A) A character that is the villain. B) A character that is the hero. C) A character that is in most of the story, important. D) A character that is not in most of the story, not important. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A character that is in most of the story, important. 18. Which example uses a rhetorical question? A) What are eating tonight?. B) Do you want to pass the exam?. C) Is she brain washing her colleague?. D) What did the doctor say?. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Do you want to pass the exam?. 19. The part of the story where everything is wrapped up-the end. A) Rising action. B) Falling action. C) Climax. D) Resolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Resolution. 20. The boys believed black birds bite. A) Simile. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. ← 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