This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 518 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 518 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What literary device is used in the phrase 'the sun kissed the earth'? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 2. AN OBJECT OR IDEA THAT REPEATS ITSELF THROUGHOUT A LITERARY WORK. A) Patterns. B) Refrain. C) Artifact. D) Legends. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Patterns. 3. Read the sentence and choose the onomatopoeia. Saya was doing the dishes and the clanging pots awoke the baby. A) Pots. B) Clanging. C) Dishes. D) Awoke. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Clanging. 4. The overall feeling a literary work creates for the reader A) Mood. B) Setting. C) Characterization. D) Point of view. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mood. 5. Which is NOT example of a synecdoche? A) Calling the alphabet the ABC's. B) Saying "what a pleasant day" when it's storming. C) Calling an old man grey beard. D) Referring to soldiers as boots. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Saying "what a pleasant day" when it's storming. 6. Going back to share something that happened earlier A) Flashback. B) Foreshadowing. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Flashback. 7. A struggle between two or more forces (ex. Person vs. Nature) A) Characterization. B) Conflict. C) Protagonist. D) Antagonist. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Conflict. 8. Donate just $ 1 a day to starving children. Make sure no one goes hungry under your watch ..... A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 9. Which of the following is used in the sentence? His eyes were as blue as the sky. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. E) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 10. Which of the following is a symbol? A) Skull:death. B) Love:affection. C) Harry Potter:a wizard. D) He is as sleepy as:a sloth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Skull:death. 11. What is this the definition of? A word that imitates the sound it represents A) Onomatopoeia. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 12. Applying human characteristics to non-human objects. A) Imagery. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Symbolism. E) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 13. Her heart at that point was slippery and hot, and loud, so loud so loud. A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Imagery. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 14. Term used for language and description that appeals to our five senses A) Allusion. B) Foreshadowing. C) Flashback. D) Imagry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagry. 15. These phrases are examples of what literary device:"alone together"; "the sound of silence" A) Naming. B) Irony. C) Oxymoron. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oxymoron. 16. The pattern of sound created by stressed and unstressed syllables. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Couplet. C) Rhyme. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhythm. 17. Giving human characteristics to inanimate things A) Simile. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 18. Sometimes I feel like my only friend is the city I live in, the city of angels. Lonely as I am, together we cry.(Red Hot Chilli Peppers) A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Oxymoron. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 19. This is as useful as rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. A) Analogy. B) Repetition. C) 1st person point of view. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Analogy. 20. What literary device describes one sense in terms of another? A) Diction. B) Synesthesia. C) Metaphor. D) Metafiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Synesthesia. ← 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