This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 505 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 505 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. One who seeks to define herself or himself. Performs acts of courage. represents the best of society. A) Ruler. B) Rebel. C) Explorer. D) Hero. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hero. 2. Language that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation, often for the purpose of creating vivid images, emphasizing ideas, or conveying emotions. A) Parallelism. B) Jargon. C) Figurative Language. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Figurative Language. 3. Choose the term that BEST matches the definition. the use of descriptive language that appeals to the reader's senses A) Point of view. B) Irony. C) Imagery. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 4. "You scared me to death" is an example of A) Idiom. B) Hyperbole. C) Allusion. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 5. This is the act of talking to oneself or a type of monologue A) Allusion. B) Soliloquy. C) Dramatic irony. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Soliloquy. 6. What literary device is used in the line "Of milk and also curds and cream?" A) Rhyme. B) Personification. C) Alliteration. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 7. Conflict between two or more characters is called A) Person versus nature. B) Person versus self. C) Person versus person. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Person versus person. 8. Overstatement or exaggeration A) Stanza. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 9. A literary device in which a later event is inserted into a narrative. A) Epistolary. B) Flashback. C) Flashforward. D) Narrator. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Flashforward. 10. Choose an example of a simile. A) I was a shadow. B) Life is like a box of chocolate. C) Lightning danced across the sky. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Life is like a box of chocolate. 11. Hints that an author gives to help define a difficult or unusual word. A) Foreshadow. B) Allusion. C) Definition. D) Context Clues. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Context Clues. 12. Which type of irony occurs when the audience knows more than a character in the story? A) Verbal irony. B) Dramatic irony. C) Situational irony. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dramatic irony. 13. She was the black sheep of the family. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 14. This device refers to the writer's attitude towards the reader and the subject of the message: A) Theme. B) Purpose. C) Tone. D) Style. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tone. 15. When the woman kept changing the subject I knew she had something to hide. I wasn't surprised when she turned out to be guilty. A) Foreshadowing. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foreshadowing. 16. Uses figures of speech, so words cannot be interpreted literally A) Figurative language. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Alliteration. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Figurative language. 17. Splat! POW! Ding! Bang! Buzzzzzz ..... are all examples of ..... A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 18. ..... refers to the perspective in which a story is told. A) Plot. B) Theme. C) Narration. D) Point of view. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Point of view. 19. The conclusion of the action; how the story comes to an end A) Exposition. B) Resolution. C) Climax. D) Falling action. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Resolution. 20. Non-defining relative clauses A) Provide us with essential information. B) Have two relative pronouns. C) Haven't got a relative pronoun. D) Give additional and non-essential information. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Give additional and non-essential information. ← 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