This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 519 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 519 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Plays are divided into A) Scenes. B) Acts. C) Stage directions. D) Asides. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Acts. 2. A contrast between what the character thinks to be true and what we (the readers) know to be true is called ..... ? A) Dramatic irony. B) Situational irony. C) Verbal irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dramatic irony. 3. What are the functions of literary devices? A) Provide context clues. B) Ensure correct grammar. C) Create descriptive effect. D) Showcase writer's talent. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Create descriptive effect. 4. This poetic device uses words with the same first letter to make a powerful effect. A) Alliteration. B) Hyperbole. C) Rule of three. D) Rhetorical Question. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 5. Which of these sentences contains a use of personification? A) The moon shone upon the darkened house. B) The moon shone angrily. C) The luminous moon shone upon the house. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The moon shone angrily. 6. What is the emotion or feeling of a poem called? A) Diction. B) Imagery. C) Mood. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mood. 7. Which Literary Device is in the following sentence:My brother and I were sardines packed in the car for 8 hours. A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 8. Which of the following is the best definition of onomatopoeia? A) A type of art, music, or literature characterized by a specific form. B) Language that is not meant to be taken literally. C) A figure of speech in which a thing, idea, or animal is given human traits. D) A sound device in which the sound of a word resembles the word itself. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A sound device in which the sound of a word resembles the word itself. 9. Repetition of words is referred to as ..... A) Personification. B) Nomenclature. C) Alliteration. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 10. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot. Ex. "Our hero is in a Wild West saloon. The hero walks in and orders a drink. Over in the corner, the bad guy watches him drink. As the hero leaves, the bad guy spits on the floor (what do you think will happen?)." A) Foreshadowing. B) Flashback. C) Climax. D) Narration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foreshadowing. 11. Only one character's thoughts are revealed but the author refers to that character as "he" or "she" A) 1st person point of view (POV). B) 3rd person limited POV. C) 3rd person omniscient POV. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1st person point of view (POV). 12. Exaggerating to the extreme A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Imagery. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 13. The repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of words or in a stressed syllable. A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Consonant. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 14. Chose the literary device in this line."like a terrible fish" A) Simile. B) Imagery. C) Consonance. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 15. Storytelling in which the narrator tells only what one character thinks, feels, and observes. Uses pronouns he, she, they A) 1st person. B) 2nd person. C) 3rd person limited. D) 3rd person omniscient. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3rd person limited. 16. The clock is the keeper of time. A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 17. A conversation or an event that happened before the beginning of the story. A) Flashback. B) Figurative language. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Flashback. 18. What is this?"She was rich." A) Direct characterization. B) Indirect characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Direct characterization. 19. What is the following an example of ..... "The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky ..... are also on the faces of the people passing by. I see friends shaking hands saying how do you do. They're really saying I love you." A) Imagery. B) Idiom. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 20. Language that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation-ex. simile, metaphor A) Figurative language. B) Lies. C) Summative language. D) Mature language. 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