This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 528 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 528 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When the writer makes direct statements about a character's personality A) Indirect characterization. B) Direct characterization. C) Personification. D) Caricature. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Direct characterization. 2. How do author's usually show mood? A) Through word choice (descriptions). B) Through characters. C) With the title. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Through word choice (descriptions). 3. Get off my back!-in other words (stop bothering me) A) Simile. B) Idiom. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Idiom. 4. What is the meaning of this personification? "The stairs groaned as we walked on them." A) The stairs were slippery when they walked. B) The stairs squeaked when they walked. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The stairs squeaked when they walked. 5. The most exciting point of the story, and is a turning point for the plot or goals of the main character. A) Characters. B) Conflict. C) Climax. D) Conclusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Climax. 6. A ..... takes the place of a noun. Ex:he, she, they, us A) Proper noun. B) Common noun. C) They tend. D) Verb. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They tend. 7. When trying to figure out author's meaning, you must look at: A) Diction (choice of words). B) The topic of the text to get a clue how others might feel in that situation. C) The way a poetic text is written. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 8. "Vikings valiantly vanquish vampires" is an example of ..... A) Repetition. B) Imagery. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 9. Which of the following is the best definition of flashback? A) The end of a story when the main problems have been solved. B) A psychological struggle within the mind of a character. C) When the author of a story jumps back in time to have a character relive an important event or experience. D) When the author of a story gives hints about what's going to happen in the future. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) When the author of a story jumps back in time to have a character relive an important event or experience. 10. What is the problem between the protagonist and the antagonist called? A) External conflict. B) Internal conflict. C) Plot. D) Inciting incident. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) External conflict. 11. ANIMAL FARM is all of the following EXCEPT: A) Allegory. B) Fable. C) Satire. D) Nonfiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nonfiction. 12. We can learn a lot about a character if we pay attention to what the character does or how the character behaves. This type of characterization is under which category? A) Looks. B) Effects on Others. C) Actions. D) Thoughts. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Actions. 13. Sight imagery A) Visual. B) Tactile. C) Aural. D) Thermal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Visual. 14. What is meant by the TONE of a poem? A) The reader's attitude about the poem. B) The reader's feelings about the poem. C) The poet's attitude about the poem. D) The poet's feelings about the poem. . Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The poet's attitude about the poem. 15. Explain a narrative poem. A) Poem that tells a story. B) Word that resembles the sound it denotes. C) Giving human characteristics to an animal, object, or concept. D) Four-line stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poem that tells a story. 16. The manner in which a story is narrated, typically through either 1st or 3rd person. A) Narration. B) Point of View. C) Sequencing. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Point of View. 17. Choose the term that BEST matches the definition. a "hint" of things to come A) Climax. B) Flashback. C) Foreshadowing. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Foreshadowing. 18. If an author references something that happened in the past, like through a memory, it's called a ..... A) Memory. B) Flashback. C) Remembrance. D) Stroke. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flashback. 19. At Leatherbee's the banana split is so big you practically need a steam shovel to eat it. A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 20. Her books fell out of her locker with a thud. A) Hyperbole. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Idiom. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. ← 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