This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 483 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 483 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The rising action of a story is A) At the end of the story. B) The events that build tension and suspense. C) The message the author shares with the reader. D) The introduction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The events that build tension and suspense. 2. Then the waves of the corrupted Ceres and the Cereals prepare their weapons A) Metonymy. B) Synecdoche. C) Multi-connectors. D) Synchesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metonymy. 3. Alicia Keys:She's just a girl, and she's on fire Hotter than a fantasy, longer like a highway A) Simile, allusion. B) Metaphor, alliteration. C) Irony, metaphor. D) Metaphor, simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor, simile. 4. In general, professional athletes are overpaid. A) Fact. B) Opinion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Opinion. 5. Life is a journey; travel it well. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 6. What is the plot of Illegal? A) Midnight. The ocean. Dangerous circumstances. B) A group of travelers bought a boat to travel to another country. The boat that they got was not big enough to be safe for all the travelers. Nuru, one of the travelers, is blaming Ebo for their bad luck. Ebo hopes that they will find kind people that will help them when they arrive to their destination. C) Person VS Person. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A group of travelers bought a boat to travel to another country. The boat that they got was not big enough to be safe for all the travelers. Nuru, one of the travelers, is blaming Ebo for their bad luck. Ebo hopes that they will find kind people that will help them when they arrive to their destination. 7. Which of these sentences contains a use of simile? A) The clouds were fluffy and very white. B) The clouds were as fluffy and white as cotton buds. C) The fluffy, white clouds floated through the sky. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The clouds were as fluffy and white as cotton buds. 8. A figure of speech in which an object, abstract idea, or animal is given human characteristics A) Personification. B) Symbol. C) Theme. D) Verisimilitude. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 9. This literary device gives inanimate or inhuman objects human characteristics A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 10. When a thought runs on from one line to another without final punctuation A) Paradox. B) Enjambment. C) Alliteration. D) Synecdoche. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Enjambment. 11. 'The use of objects and images to represent ideas, qualities, and emotions' defines what? A) Personification. B) Metafiction. C) Synesthesia. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbolism. 12. Wilshane has tons of video games. A) Hyperbole. B) Hyperbali. C) Hyperbole. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 13. Which of the following is an example of symbolism in literature? A) All of these are correct. B) Water symbolizing rebirth. C) Fall representing growing old. D) The color black to symbolize evil. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) All of these are correct. 14. A character, Flora, goes on a field trip to an amusement park. She tells her teacher she's scared to go on the roller coasters. "No way I'm going on those!" she thinks. Flora's classmates comment on how she's shaking and looks pale. Based on this evidence, one trait that describes Flora is ..... A) Fierce. B) Cowardly. C) Talented. D) Bold. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cowardly. 15. What literary device is used in the sentence:'The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky'? A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 16. Round A) Character stays the same. B) Character changes throughout the story. C) One-sided character. D) Many-sided character. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Many-sided character. 17. Repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 18. The American flag can symbolize ..... A) Freedom. B) War. C) Justice. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Freedom. 19. Which purpose suggests that setting adds realism to the story or makes it more believable? A) Credibility. B) Character development. C) Organization. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Credibility. 20. I am a cloud/ dancing in the sky. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Repetition. E) Alliteration. 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