This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 487 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 487 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which literary term is showcased in the following quote:I traced my fingers along the gold-colored stitching on the borders. A) Epiphany. B) Flashback. C) Imagery. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 2. This refers to the central or main idea of a story ..... A) Plot. B) Theme. C) Structure. D) Climax. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Theme. 3. What literary device is present below? The Chromebook died because it lost its charge. A) Personification. B) Allusion. C) Paradox. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 4. When a character goes back to an earlier time: A) Suspense. B) Climax. C) Flashback. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Flashback. 5. Down at street level another poster, torn at one corner, flapped fitfully in the wind, alternately covering and uncovering the single word INGSOC. A) Visual Imagery. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Alliteration. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Visual Imagery. 6. Which word repeats the beginning consonant sounds in words? A) Onomatopoeia. B) Assonance. C) Alliteration. D) Metaphor. E) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 7. A comparison of two different things or ideas using the words like or as, for example the moon was as white as milk. A) Assonance. B) Diction. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 8. An open clash between two or more forces is known as: A) The climax. B) The conflict. C) The resolution. D) The plot. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The conflict. 9. What story is this from? "There is no greater bore than perfection." A) The Most Dangerous Game. B) All Summer in a Day. C) The Monkey's Paw. D) The Tell Tale Heart. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Most Dangerous Game. 10. Definition-Uses words that sound like their meaning, or mimic sounds. Example-Zap! The lightning struck the telephone pole. A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Onomatopoeia. E) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 11. Identify a more vivid way to write the verb in the following sentence:The teacher walked through the quad during lunch. A) Moved. B) Strolled. C) Jumped. D) Went. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Strolled. 12. Kills Macbeth A) Lady Macbeth. B) Malcolm. C) Fleance. D) Macduff. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Macduff. 13. Visually descriptive or figurative language; painting pictures through effective writing A) Irony. B) Imagery. C) Satire. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 14. Which of the following is NOT true regarding symbols? A) Symbols can be based on cultural items, like a country's flag or religion, like a cross for Christianity. B) Symbols never vary from one culture to another. C) Some symbols can seem to be universal across cultures like "light" symbolizing knowledge. D) Symbols shift their meaning depending on the context. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Symbols never vary from one culture to another. 15. Giving human qualities to objects A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Alliteration. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 16. Name the literary device here:Well, it's ten acres with a windmill. Got a little shack on with a chicken run. Got a kitchen, orchard, cherries, apples, peaches, apricots, a few nuts, got a few berries. There's a place for alfalfa and plenty of water to flood it. A) Allusion. B) Idiom. C) Imagery. D) Rhetorical Question. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 17. Repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together A) Vernacular. B) Alliteration. C) Imagery. D) Conceit. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 18. Figurative language to evoke a sensory experience or create a picture with words for a reader. / Figurative language to evoke a sensory experience or create an image with words for a reader. A) Outburst. B) Imagery. C) Allusion. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 19. What is the inciting incident of a story? A) The most exciting part. B) The resolution. C) The first problem. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The first problem. 20. Identify the literary device in the sentence:'The clock ticked and the door creaked.' A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. ← 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