This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 521 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 521 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following is a euphemism? A) Please act natural when you are on stage. B) "I'm sorry, but we're going to have to let you go.". C) In some cases, a little is a lot!. D) Wow! you did an awesone job of totaling your new car!. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "I'm sorry, but we're going to have to let you go.". 2. Joe the baby grabber is an example of ..... A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Epithet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Epithet. 3. A struggle between a character and an outside force (another character or nature) A) Internal conflict. B) External conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) External conflict. 4. Which of the following means "making fun of something by using the multiple meanings of a word" ? A) Word game. B) Pun. C) Irony. D) Hangman. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pun. 5. An adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned A) Epithet. B) Euphemism. C) Foreshadowing. D) Anecdote. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Epithet. 6. A play on words that are identical or similar in sound but have very different meanings. A) Pun. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Nuance. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pun. 7. "His father ..... lecturing endlessly about his poor efforts in math, " is an example of which literary device? A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Imagery. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 8. Assuming the outcome of an event based on previous events is what kind of rhetoric? A) Slippery slope. B) False assumption. C) Stereotype. D) Logical fallacy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Slippery slope. 9. Which word means a conversation between characters or speakers in a literary work or the speech of characters in a drama? A) Motif. B) Imagery. C) Foreshadowing. D) Dialogue. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dialogue. 10. A type of figurative language that gives human qualites (actions) to nonhuman things like "The wind sang a song." A) Idiom. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 11. An idea or feeling that a word invokes for a person in addition to its literal or primary meaning A) Denotation. B) Definition. C) Connotation. D) Rhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Connotation. 12. When ideas, actions, or objects are described in non-literal terms; when an author compares one thing to another. A) Metaphor. B) Foreshadowing. C) Colloquialism. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 13. Elyan and Adrian were discussing about their English homework. Elyan asked Adrian, 'What is the literary definition of a imagery?' A) Adrian replied, 'It is comparing two unlike things using a word of comparison such as "like" .'. B) Adrian replied, 'It is language that creates word pictures and appeals to the senses.'. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Adrian replied, 'It is language that creates word pictures and appeals to the senses.'. 14. The following is an example of what type of literary device:Heather is a beautiful snowflake. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Verbal Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 15. Which is the significant literary device in the following quote: " ..... but it would explain a lot. Why Dad left home as soon as he could. Why he drank so much and why he got so angry. Why he never wanted to visit Welch when we were younger. Why he at first refused to come to West Virginia with us and only at the last possible moment overcame his reluctance and jumped into the car. Why he was shaking his head so hard, almost like he wanted to put his hands over his ears, when I tried to explain what Erma had been doing to Brian." A) Personification. B) Motif. C) Metaphor. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Syntax. 16. We can learn a lot about a character if we pay attention to what the character says and how the character says it. This type of characterization is under which category? A) Speech. B) Looks. C) Effects on Others. D) Actions. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Speech. 17. What does it mean when you tell someone to break a leg? A) Good luck!. B) I hope you hurt yourself!. C) Watch your step!. D) Don't touch me!. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Good luck!. 18. Tall, dark and handsome is an example of ..... A) Alliteration. B) Hyperbole. C) Rule of three. D) Rhetorical Question. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rule of three. 19. Which literary device is shown here? 2 nec bello pede ..... 6 ten provincia narrat esse bellam? A) Apostrophe. B) Twenty days. C) Polyptoton. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Polyptoton. 20. When an object represents a bigger concept or idea A) Allusion. B) Symbolism. C) Mood. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Symbolism. ← 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