This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 534 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 534 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Tragic or depressing subject matter is dealt with in a humorous way A) Anti-hero. B) Dark comedy. C) Imagery/sensory details. D) Suspense/tension. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dark comedy. 2. When a writer invokes the five senses A) ALLITERATION. B) IMAGERY. C) ONOMATOPOEIA. D) OXYMORON. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) IMAGERY. 3. Which of the following is NOT a 3rd person point of view. A) 3rd person limited. B) 3rd person omniscient. C) 3rd person regulated. D) 3rd person objective. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3rd person regulated. 4. A character who acts as contrast to another character. Often a funny side kick to the dashing hero, or a villain contrasting the hero A) Imagery. B) Tone. C) Chiasmus. D) Foil. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Foil. 5. Conversation between two or more characters in a story. A) Dialogue. B) Setting. C) Exposition. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dialogue. 6. "Johnny jumped joyfully" is an example of ..... A) Onomatopoeia. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Biography. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 7. Extreme exaggeration (Ex. My backpack weighs a ton.) A) Hyperbole. B) Imagery. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 8. When the struggle in the story is happening between the protagonist and him or herself, it is called ..... A) Conflict from parents. B) External conflict. C) Internal conflict. D) School conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Internal conflict. 9. ..... is a literary device that allows writers to show their audience specific events that happened before the current action of the story. A) Flashback. B) Foreshadowing. C) Irony. D) Climax. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Flashback. 10. "A run-on sentence, its phrases piling up without division, is as unsightly as a sink piled high with dirty dishes." (from "In Praise of the Humble Comma" by Pico Iyer) A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Allusion. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 11. What theme is it when Scrooge realizes he should have been nicer more during his life? A) Regret. B) Greed. C) Charity. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Regret. 12. Balancing two or more ideas or arguments that are equally important. A) Pathos. B) Ad hominem. C) Parallelism. D) Logos. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parallelism. 13. It is a literary device where two or more words in a phrase or line of poetry share the same beginning consonant sound. A) Allusion. B) Alliteration. C) Diction. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 14. In Wonder, Space is a: A) Symbol. B) Motif. C) Theme. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Motif. 15. Unrhymed iambic pentameter, meaning there are 5 alternating unstressed and stressed beats. A) Blank verse. B) Soliloquy. C) Metaphor. D) Monologue. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Blank verse. 16. "Imagery" is a ..... A) Literary Element. B) Literary Technique. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Literary Technique. 17. What literary device is present below? Asher was lightning on the field. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 18. The character who opposes the main character is called the ..... A) Protagonist. B) Antagonist. C) Dynamic character. D) Static character. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antagonist. 19. "It is raining cats and dogs!" is an example of what? (Is it literally raining animals?) A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 20. The car honked, then beeped, and then suddenly stop with a loud, "Bang." This is an example of A) Consonance. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Dissonance. D) Alliteration. 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