This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 522 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 522 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Looking at her child's messy room, Mom says, "Wow, you could win an award for cleanliness!" A) Dramatic irony. B) Verbal irony. C) Situational irony. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Verbal irony. 2. ".....and the falling starry sleeps." This is an example of: A) Anaphora. B) Unrelated. C) Silence. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 3. An underlying message about life or human nature-that an author wants readers to take away from a text. A) Theme. B) Hyperbole. C) Symbolism. D) Verbal irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme. 4. What character trait is revealed in this passage? Jonathan looked at the homeless dog walking down the street of his neighborhood. He approached the dog, slowly cautiously, with his hands stretched outward. After gaining his trust, Jonathan took the dog home, gave him a warm bath, and big bowl of food. A) Impulsive. B) Obsessed. C) Humble. D) Compassionate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Compassionate. 5. What literary device is present in the following quote? "[the wind] ..... blew the fallen oaks around, snapping their roots and tearing them out of the earth like a hawk at the entrails of a chicken." A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 6. LAST CHANCE:how many tests must you pass to receive your high school diploma? A) 3. B) 2. C) 1. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2. 7. When the audience knew Juliet was not dead, but Romeo did not know, it is an example of ..... irony. A) Verbal. B) Situational. C) Dramatic. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dramatic. 8. "She sang of his love forever" is an example of: A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 9. The narrator tells what only one character thinks, feels, and observes A) 1st person point of view. B) 2nd person point of view. C) 3rd person point of view:objective. D) 3rd person point of view:limited. E) 3rd person point of view:omniscent. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 3rd person point of view:limited. 10. A use of an incorrect word in place of a similar sounding word that results in a nonsensical and humorous expression A) Malapropism. B) Euphemism. C) Idiom. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Malapropism. 11. A figure of speech in which abstract ideas and principles are described in terms of characters, figures, and events. It can be employed in prose and poetry to tell a story, with a purpose of teaching or explaining an idea or a principle is known as A) An Allegory. B) A Metaphor. C) An Anecdote. D) Discourse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An Allegory. 12. A vowel followed by 2 consonants is ..... A) Long. B) Short. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Long. 13. Which literary device is shown here?29 per ego haec loca plena timoris, 30 per Chaos hoc ingens vastique silentia regni, A) Zeugma. B) Unrelated. C) Synchysis. D) Growing tricolon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Unrelated. 14. ..... is the moral or lesson the author is trying to impart or teach. A) Theme. B) Conflict. C) Plot. D) Climax. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme. 15. What is a deliberate repetition of a part of the sentence? A) Allusion. B) Anaphora. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anaphora. 16. What is invective? A) A polite and respectful statement. B) A verbally abusive attack. C) A humorous and light-hearted statement. D) A critical and analytical statement. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A verbally abusive attack. 17. A man faces discrimination. A) Person vs Self. B) Person vs Technology. C) Person vs Society. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Person vs Society. 18. Which literary device is most clearly used in this line from "The Golden Plate? "The woman saw that this was a nice tender looking merchant and thought, 'He's a good man, not like the rough-talking first salesman." ' A) Personification. B) Characterization. C) Mood. D) Setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Characterization. 19. A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning A) Allegory. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allegory. 20. Perhaps the flight contained a whole boardroom of Texas businessmen flying to China. Was she surrounded by a host of men in bolo ties? Was she the only Chinese person on this flight to China? Louise decided to scan the rest of the plane. She leaned as far as she could to the right. She leaned so far that her head knocked into the passenger beside her. A) 1st Person. B) 3rd Person. 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