This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 535 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 535 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. An example of AUTHOR'S PURPOSE is: A) "Should I still ask for a ransom?". B) "Ulysses" was written to entertain. C) Phillip and Timothy are the main characters. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "Ulysses" was written to entertain. 2. What is the term for a direct comparison that doesn't use 'like' or 'as'? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 3. What is the inversion of the usual order of words in clauses called? A) Anastrophe. B) Anaphora. C) Epistrophe. D) Diacope. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anastrophe. 4. Define personification in poetry. A) Giving human characteristics to an animal, object, or concept. B) Four-line stanza. C) Pattern of end rhymes denoted by letters. D) Explicit comparison using connecting words like, as, than, similar to. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Giving human characteristics to an animal, object, or concept. 5. Putting human characteristics towards a non-human thing. A) Personification. B) Allusion. C) Irony. D) Apostrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 6. What is the literary device that refers to a meaning implied by a word apart from its literal meaning? A) Connotation. B) Foreshadowing. C) Juxtaposition. D) Oxymoron . Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Connotation. 7. The beginning of the plot, when the setting and characters are established. A) Rising action. B) Falling action. C) Exposition. D) Resolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exposition. 8. What is this?"Every time he opened a book, he'd be snoring in five minutes." A) Direct characterization. B) Indirect characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Indirect characterization. 9. A movie about a man battling a Twister in his hometown is an example of ..... A) Man vs. Self. B) Man vs. Man. C) Man vs. Society. D) Man vs. Nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Man vs. Nature. 10. "He's as strong as an ox" is an example of A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 11. Feel a bit under the weather A) This idiom means 'to hear rumors' about something or someone. B) Feeling slightly ill. C) Overwhelmed by what is happening in the moment. D) When something is done badly to save money. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Feeling slightly ill. 12. Silly Sally swam so smoothly' is an example of: A) Onomatopoeia. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 13. Describing to help a reader experience a text A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. C) Simile. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 14. A literary device that shows a barrier between the characters and the audience. A) Breaking the wall. B) Breaking down the wall. C) Breaking the fourth wall. D) Breaking the Wall of China. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Breaking the fourth wall. 15. Upon watching a commercial during the Super Bowl, you immediately believe what they are selling because of the person selling it; therefore, you go and buy it. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 16. Readers can use literary devices to ..... A) Analyze literature. B) Summarize literature. C) Do math. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Analyze literature. 17. "On the shore of the lagoon, the judicial district officer is one, the clerk is two, the soldier is three, both solemnly working and solemnly spitting together."What type of literary device is this an example of? A) Synecdoche. B) Simile. C) Irony. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Irony. 18. The dog was as sad as the color blue. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Repetition. E) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 19. The horrific scene played out before my eyes, the blood and gore causing my stomach to churn. A) Emotive language. B) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 20. What figure of speech gives a non-human thing human characteristics? A) Onomatopoeia. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. ← 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