This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 501 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 501 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A type of figurative language that gives nonhuman things (ideas, objects, or animals) human qualities and characteristics. A) Symbol. B) Imagery. C) Literary Allusion. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 2. What literary device is the following? Here are the rules:Ignore all rules A) Paradox. B) Oxymoron. C) Pun. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paradox. 3. My tennis shoes stuck out their tongues at my stinky feet after running the mile. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Smelly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 4. A narrator whose credibility has been seriously compromised and who is untrustworthy. A) Omniscient Narrator. B) Third Person Narrator. C) Unpredictable Narrator. D) Unreliable Narrator. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Unreliable Narrator. 5. What is the rhyme of the following poem "At the Seaside" by Robert Louis Stevenson? When I was down beside the sea A wooden spade they gave to me To dig the sandy shore. My holes were empty like a cup, In every hole the sea came up, Till it could come no more. A) Aabccb. B) Aabbcc. C) Aabcbc. D) Abcabc. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aabccb. 6. In "The Seventh Man, " why does the seventh man's view of the past begin to change? A) Studying K.'s art, he remembers that K. was gentle and realizes that his last look was not one of hatred. B) After his father dies, he returns home and realizes that he did not need to move to Nagano. C) Studying K.'s art, he realizes that K. would not have minded dying in the wave. D) After his father dies, he realizes that it was the second wave, not the first, that killed K. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Studying K.'s art, he remembers that K. was gentle and realizes that his last look was not one of hatred. 7. She is as kind as an angel. A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 8. A way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular region or group of people A) Dialect. B) Tone. C) Diction. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dialect. 9. A well-known symbol that has been handed down over time; public symbols; universal symbols. A) Inherited Symbol. B) Invented Symbol. C) Ambiguity. D) Verbal Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inherited Symbol. 10. In the lyrics of the song, "You are the thunder and I am the lightning. " The figurative language being utilized is ..... A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 11. When the writer gives you hints about the character but does not out right tell you. A) Characterization (indirect). B) Characterization (direct). C) Imagery. D) Extended Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Characterization (indirect). 12. Which word means the use of a word or phrase to mean the exact opposite of its literal or usual meaning or a disconnect between the actual result of a sequence of events and the expected result? A) Personification. B) Symbolism. C) Metaphor. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Irony. 13. Night is a black beast, prowling on fear. What literary device has been used? A) Simile. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 14. During a stormy night, my mom and I watched lightning dance across the sky. It was beautiful! This is an example of ..... A) Personification. B) A simile. C) A metaphor. D) The idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 15. The main character of the story. A) Protagonist. B) Antagonist. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Protagonist. 16. "No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him." A) Alliteration. B) Symbolism. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 17. Identify the rhyme scheme ..... Roses are red Violets are blue Sugar is sweet So are you A) AAB. B) BABA. C) ABCD. D) ABCB. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) ABCB. 18. Tommy takes ten turns on the swings A) Simile. B) Idiom. C) Alliteration. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 19. The author's attitude toward what they're writing about A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Diction. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 20. Is this alliteration?The kangaroo kicked the kid. A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. ← 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