This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 526 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 526 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Events in a story can be described as: A) What happens in story. B) How things happen in a story. C) The order things happen in a story. D) The story. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The order things happen in a story. 2. Representation of something greater than itself-beyond literal is known as which literary device? A) Allusion. B) Irony. C) Symbol. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbol. 3. Which one is an example of a "character" ? (a) A) Apple. B) Table. C) A Harry Potter. D) Car. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A Harry Potter. 4. The use of the same consonant at the beginning of words A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Imagery. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 5. A device authors use to keep their readers' interest alive throughout the story. It is a feeling of anticipation that something risky or dangerous is about to happen. A) Anti-hero. B) Dark comedy. C) Imagery/sensory details. D) Suspense/tension. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Suspense/tension. 6. Which sentence correctly uses semicolons? A) I went to the store; I bought milk. B) I went to; the store and I bought milk. C) I went to the store I bought; milk. D) I went to the store, I bought milk. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I went to the store; I bought milk. 7. The conflict is between a character and nature A) Man v. nature. B) Protagonist. C) Antagonist. D) Man v. self. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Man v. nature. 8. Clues to events before the events happen is known as which literary device? A) Flashforward. B) Foreshadowing. C) Flashback. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foreshadowing. 9. The feeling created in the reader as a result of the tone and atmosphere of the story ..... A) Theme. B) Mood. C) Paradox. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mood. 10. Jake's family went on a camping trip. They went to a park by the ocean. They rode their bikes around the park and cooked their food over a fire outside. They saw some deer. They came home Sunday afternoon. What is the main idea? A) They saw some deer. B) Jake's family likes to camp. C) Jake's family went on a camping trip. D) They cooked their food outside. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jake's family went on a camping trip. 11. He is a real Romeo A) Allusion. B) Hyperbole. C) Idiom. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 12. During The Voyage of the Frog, David talked about how he didn't look at the weather forecast before he sailed out. This is an example of A) Flashback. B) Foreshadowing. C) Point of view. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foreshadowing. 13. True or false:The meaning of a symbol is universal. It doesn't depend on culture. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 14. A character who exists to provide a contrast with a main character A) Antagonist. B) Protagonist. C) Foil. D) Sidekick. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Foil. 15. What is the literary device that describes an object in, or the subject of, a poem as being the same as another otherwise unrelated object? A) Metaphor. B) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 16. Starting multiple words with the same letter or sound A) Alliteration. B) Imagery. C) Allusion. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 17. "If I were going to finish this novel, then it would be the longest night of my life." is an example of ..... A) Metaphor. B) Imagery. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 18. Which literary device ties up every loose end of a story, even if it doesn't make sense? A) Analogy. B) Deus ex machina. C) Tragic flaw. D) Poetic justice. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Deus ex machina. 19. What type of figurative language compares two unlike objects but does NOT use like or as? This type of fig. lang states that one thing IS something else. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Analogy. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 20. A rhetorical appeal that appeals to logic ..... using facts, statistics to prove argument. A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logos. ← 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