This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 500 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 500 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "The man was as fast as a cheetah" is an example of ..... A) Alliteration. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 2. The witches fool Macbeth by saying things that appear to be truthful but can be entirely misinterpreted. This is an example of ..... A) Soliloquy. B) Equivocation. C) Apostrophe. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Equivocation. 3. Which literary device is shown here?29 ..... per ego haec loca plena timoris, 30 per Chaos hoc ingens vastique silentia regni, 31 Eurydices, oro, properata retexite fata. A) Prolepsis. B) Twenty days. C) Chiasmus. D) Anastrophe . Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prolepsis. 4. What does Braling's mysterious smile foreshadow in the story? A) The twist ending. B) The appearance of the marionettes. C) The characters' desire for freedom. D) The manipulation of the characters' lives. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The twist ending. 5. Intended to instruct or educate. A) Didactic. B) Deliberate. C) Delegate. D) Dramatic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Didactic. 6. What is the ancient art alluded to in the story? A) Puppetry. B) Sculpture. C) Painting. D) Theater. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Puppetry. 7. What's the definition of foreshadowing? A) The array of feelings the work evokes in the reader. B) When authors hint at plot developments that don't actually occur until later in the story. C) Literary device or event in which how things seem to be is in fact very different from how they actually are. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) When authors hint at plot developments that don't actually occur until later in the story. 8. What is the Resolution? A) The moment when all of the loose ends are tied up and all the questions are answered. B) The first hurdles or conflict in a literary work. C) The sequence of events in a work of literature. D) The perspective from which the story is told. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The moment when all of the loose ends are tied up and all the questions are answered. 9. This is another word for story line. A) Point of View. B) Plot. C) Rising Action. D) Falling Action. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plot. 10. Which literary device deals with the way in which sentences and paragraphs are constructed? A) Diction. B) Figurative language. C) Imagery. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Syntax. 11. "And every whisper, every sigh, eats away this heart of mine." A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Imagery. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 12. When an author uses descriptive language about how something tastes, that is ..... A) Gustatory imagery. B) Tactile imagery. C) Olfactory imager. D) Visual imagery. E) Auditory imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gustatory imagery. 13. Denotation of We're busy doing nothing A) Metaphors don't have denotations. B) You cant be busy if you are doing nothing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphors don't have denotations. 14. Figurative language that describes a non-human thing by giving it human traits is called ..... A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 15. Repetition of consonants. A) Assonance. B) Internal Rhyme. C) Pun. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 16. A figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else. DOES NOT USE LIKE OR AS.(Ex. Her hair is gold. A blanket of snow covered the streets.) A) Irony. B) Flashback. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 17. This literary device using the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or connected words. A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Allusion. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 18. "Like Adam in the garden, he was tempted" is an example of what? A) Allusion. B) Hyperbole. C) Paradox. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 19. Which of the following is NOT an example of a nonfiction text structure? A) Problem & solution. B) Compare & contrast. C) Narrative. D) Sequence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Narrative. 20. "The snowflakes danced in the wind" is an example of ..... A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Irony. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. ← 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