This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 489 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 489 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. This is a story or situation that shows some sort of conflict or emotion through action and dialogue. A) Poem. B) Comedy. C) Drama. D) Prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Drama. 2. Who does the father refuse as godparents for his son? A) Angel and Devil. B) God and Devil. C) Devil and Vampire. D) Vampire and Ghost. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) God and Devil. 3. Laughter is the best medicine A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 4. Which of the following contains all of the parts of the plot diagram? A) Exposition, rising action, falling action. B) Exposition, climax, denoument, conflict, setting. C) Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, denouement. D) Characters, plot, story, setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, denouement. 5. A subordinate plot in a play, novel, or similar work. A) Foreshadowing. B) Subplot. C) Flashback. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Subplot. 6. A device that playwrights and filmmakers use in order to reveal inner thoughts and judgments of characters directly to the audience. This device is necessary since the viewer has no immediate access to those thoughts and feelings other than hearing them spoken on stage. A) Allusion. B) Aside. C) Flashback. D) Antagonist. E) Protagonist. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aside. 7. Two opposites, a contradiction A) Onomatopoeia. B) Oxymoron. C) Irony. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron. 8. Sibilance A) Feeling or idea that is suggested by word although not part of its meaning. B) One sense is described using terms from another. C) Hissing sound created within a group of words through repeating "s" sounds. D) Uses negative wording or terms to express positive assertion or statement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hissing sound created within a group of words through repeating "s" sounds. 9. Determine if the sentence contains a simile or a metaphor. The dog's eyes were as black as coal. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 10. What is the name of the online catalog where you can find print resources on your topic? A) Wikipedia. B) World Book. C) Common Cause. D) Destiny. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Destiny. 11. The soft, velvety petals of the rose brushed against her fingertips as she held it. A) Visual imagery. B) Auditory imagery. C) Olfactory imagery. D) Gustatory imagery. E) Tactile imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Tactile imagery. 12. "The night is a big, black cat" is an example of A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 13. Which literary device is used to attribute human characteristics to inanimate objects or abstract ideas? A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Anthropomorphism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 14. YOU (the reader) knows something that a character in the story does not. You're "in on a secret." A) Situational irony. B) Verbal irony. C) Dramatic irony. D) Setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dramatic irony. 15. Which of the following uses colloquialism? A) Isn't. B) Can't. C) Going to. D) Lit. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lit. 16. Why does the physician want to marry the princess? A) She's got a great personality. B) She's a great dancer. C) She's rich and beautiful. D) Her foot fits into the glass slipper. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She's rich and beautiful. 17. Which literary device is used to create a specific atmosphere or emotional state in a literary work? A) Characterization. B) Mood. C) Plot. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mood. 18. "The branches clutched at the kite string."This sentence is an example of ..... A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 19. The trees bent in the wind as the wind tunnel tossed trash cans all over the street. A) Imagery. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 20. Find the simple subject in the following sentence:The lonely sheep went bowling on Tuesday. A) Lonely. B) Sheep. C) Bowling. D) Tuesday. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sheep. ← 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