This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 532 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 532 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A figure of speech that refers to a well-known story, event, person, song, object, etc., in order to make a comparison in the readers mind. A) Classical Allusion. B) Alliteration. C) Imagery. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 2. The way the author feels about the writing. A) Symbolism. B) Theme. C) Tone. D) Dramatic Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tone. 3. Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games is which type of character? A) Antagonist. B) Foil character. C) Static character. D) Protagonist. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Protagonist. 4. Giving human characteristics to objects/non-human things A) Cesura. B) Symbolism. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 5. Writer's attitude toward his or her subject A) Pun. B) Tone. C) Theme. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 6. The attitude the author adapts in regards to the subject, audience, or himself or herself A) Style. B) Tone. C) Diction. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 7. ..... is when the author/writer gives hints/clues about something that is going to happen later on in the text. A) Flashback. B) Foreshadowing. C) Irony. D) Characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foreshadowing. 8. Which Point of View makes the character the narrator of the story. Reader hears and sees ONLY what the narrator hears and sees. A) First Person. B) Third Person Limited. C) Third Person Omniscient. D) Third Person Objective. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) First Person. 9. Which of the following is NOT a literary devices A) Hyperbole. B) Idiom. C) Pun. D) Quote. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Quote. 10. Offset! Gon' whip it, intermission, let the birds fly I get money, tunnel vision through my third eyeIn that skillet, watch me flip it like it's Five GuysLook at my pilgrim, check out the ceilin', look at the blue sky A) ABBC. B) FATHER. C) AABC. D) ABCA. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FATHER. 11. A well-painted mental image that appeals to one or more of the five senses is considered ..... ? A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Hyperbole. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 12. The quality of a literary or informative work that makes the character and/or situations seem funny, amusing, or ludicrous A) Alliteration. B) Irony. C) Humor. D) Dialect. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Humor. 13. What is the name of the following literary device? "And filled it full of sofa pillows. To go a-sailing on the billows." A) Rhyme. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 14. The atmosphere of a piece of writing; the emotions the reader feels while reading A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Syntax. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mood. 15. This type of character is not complex. He or she has only one or two main ideas or emotions. A) Round Character. B) Flat Character. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flat Character. 16. Towering over the other plants, the sunflowers were a fence protecting the petunias. A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Cliche. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 17. A common expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements (the expression has both a literal and figurative meaning within its context). A) Ambiguity. B) Idiom. C) Hyperbole. D) Stream of Consciousness. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Idiom. 18. The main character or hero of the story. A) Protagonist. B) Antagonist. C) Villain. D) Characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Protagonist. 19. Craig plays football and shows up at practice every day an hour early to begin his training. What character trait describes Craig? A) Tired. B) Fast. C) Hard-working. D) Early bird. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hard-working. 20. Contrast between expectations and reality A) Hyperbole. B) Irony/Paradox. C) Anaphora. D) Epistrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irony/Paradox. ← 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