This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 520 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 520 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. You are throwing money down the drain. or The apple does not fall far from the tree. These are examples of ..... A) A metaphor. B) A simile. C) Personification. D) The idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The idiom. 2. And the goddess shed much cloud around her with her cloak A) Chiasmus. B) Unrelated. C) Tmesis. D) Nomenclature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tmesis. 3. "I simultaneously composed and destroyed the opera while writing it" is an example of what kind of literary device? A) Paradox. B) Metaphor. C) Oxymoron. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paradox. 4. The headphone explodes, || breaking the mold A) Cesura. B) Theory. C) Alliteration. D) Inversion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cesura. 5. Writer's attitude toward the subject or audience, implied or related directly A) Tone. B) Style. C) Theme. D) Pace. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 6. What is the meaning of this simile?My mom can be as fiery as a volcano when I don't do my chores on time. A) Her hair is red. B) She gets really angry. C) She talks really loudly. D) She spits when she talks. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She gets really angry. 7. A story or tale with two or more levels of meaning-a literal level and a symbolic level. A) Symbol. B) Foreshadowing. C) Allegory. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allegory. 8. What is the term for contradictions in which something that was supposed to happen is replaced with an unpredictable occurrence? A) Irony. B) Plot. C) Point Of View. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irony. 9. Explain Metaphor. A) Dictionary definition. B) Feeling a word gives. C) Exaggeration. D) Saying one thing is another. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Saying one thing is another. 10. Touch/feel imagery A) Aural. B) Tactile. C) Aural. D) Gustatory. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tactile. 11. Which literary device is shown here? 9 lingua sed torpet, tenuis sub artus10 flamma demanat, sonitu suopte11 tintinant aures, gemina teguntur12 lumina nocte, A) Chiasmus. B) Alliteration. C) Unrelated. D) Polyptoton. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Unrelated. 12. Movies bore Darry to death. A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Imagery. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 13. " ..... they liked storms; storms meant shipwrecks. Shipwrecks meant sailors struggling in the sea ..... (3) A) Allusion. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Antonym. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 14. What literary device is illustrated in the sentence below:The president is injured when a Secret Service agent knocks him down while protecting him. A) Simile. B) Pun. C) Metaphor. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Irony. 15. Which IS an example of APPROXIMATE or SLANT Rhyme A) Around/Drown. B) Sell/Bell. C) My/Tie. D) Bed/Head. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Around/Drown. 16. "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness." In Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl, " this line is an example of: A) Alliteration. B) Repetition. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 17. What literary device is used here:The sycamore leaves whispered in a little night breeze. A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Ethos. D) Rhetorical question. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 18. " ..... right now District 12 is the laughingstock of Panem, and he knows it." A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 19. This is anything that stands for or represents something else. A) Suspense. B) Mood. C) Symbol. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbol. 20. A sudden revelation, realization or flash of insight a character makes or experiences A) Epiphany. B) Setting. C) Theme. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Epiphany. ← 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