This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 490 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 490 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Identify the vivid verb in the following sentence:The students explored the museum for the entire morning. A) Students. B) Morning. C) Museum. D) Explored. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Explored. 2. "bam, " "drip, " & "moo" are all examples of A) Satire. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Assonance. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 3. A character in conflict with the main character. A) Protagonist. B) Antagonist. C) Supporting character. D) Big jerk face. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antagonist. 4. What shall I say about the rising of the war in Tire and the German threats? A) The past. B) Tmesis. C) Litotes. D) Twenty days. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The past. 5. Use of exaggeration A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Imagery. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 6. An extreme exaggeration of a real event or situation A) Hyperbole. B) Overreaction. C) Extremity. D) Hyperaction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 7. A comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification A) Allegory. B) Alliteration. C) Analogy. D) Anecdote. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Analogy. 8. Define:Synecdoche A) The formation or use of words (such as hiss or murmur) that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to (ex. sputter, splat, squirt, scrape, clink, clank, clunk, clatter, crash, bang, beep, buzz). B) A general statement or concept about people or a group of things (clue words:sometimes, always, never, most, many, all, generally, seldom, some) (ex. Everyone loves chocolate.). C) Makes a reference to, or representation of, a place, event, literary work, myth, or work of art, either directly or by implication. (Example: "Chocolate was her Achilles' heel." -referring to Greek mythology). D) An often repeated or used phrase or statement that has been used so much it has become trite and kind of meaningless. (Ex: "walk a mile in another's shoes."). E) A figure of speech using a word that is a part to represent a whole, a whole to represent a part or a material to represent an object. (Ex:His parents bought him a new set of wheels. (new car). Show Answer Correct Answer: E) A figure of speech using a word that is a part to represent a whole, a whole to represent a part or a material to represent an object. (Ex:His parents bought him a new set of wheels. (new car). 9. What literary device was used in the following example, "The street lamp flickering opposite shone on a quiet and deserted road." A) Allusion. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Foreshadowing. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 10. In a story where a character enters a difficult cooking competition, showing them struggling to bake a large cake is an example of ..... A) Foreshadowing. B) Cacophony. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foreshadowing. 11. A group of young people are camping in the woods. In the middle of the night, they wake up to find themselves surrounded by a pack of wolves. They must work together to escape the danger. What type of conflict? A) Man vs. Self. B) Man. vs. Man. C) Man. vs. Nature. D) Man. vs. Society. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Man. vs. Nature. 12. We can learn a lot about a character if we pay attention to how the character dresses and the character's body language and facial expressions.This type of characterization is under which category? A) Looks. B) Speech. C) Actions. D) Effects on Others. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Looks. 13. When a speaker intention is the opposite of what he or she is saying A) Simile. B) Irony. C) Cliche. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irony. 14. The phrase 'as quiet as a mouse' is an example of ..... A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 15. Which device improves a reader's experience of the text by immersing them more deeply by appealing to their senses? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Imagery. D) Enjambment (Run-on Lines). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 16. A person, object, place, event, or action that suggests more than its literal meaning. A) Symbol. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Symbol. 17. Indirect reference to some idea, figure, other text, place, or event that originates from outside the text. A) Imagery. B) Allusion. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 18. Narrator is outside of the story A) 1st Person. B) 2nd Person. C) 3rd Person. D) 4th Person. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3rd Person. 19. A literary term used to describe the events that make up a storyline in a narrative. A) Plot. B) Setting. C) Climax. D) Conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plot. 20. The most intense moment of the story; the turning point of the story A) Exposition. B) Climax. C) Falling Action. D) Resolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Climax. ← 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