This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 546 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 546 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The time, place, physical details and circumstances in which a story takes place. A) Allusion. B) Setting. C) Metaphor. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Setting. 2. Seat of my sleigh A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 3. What type of Irony is used when one thing is expected to happen and then something opposite occurs? A) Verbal Irony. B) Dramatic Irony. C) Situational irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Situational irony. 4. An author states exactly the personality of a character A) Direct characterization. B) Static character. C) Flat character. D) Indirect characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Direct characterization. 5. The art of persuasion using literary devices through speeches, media, or argumentation is called ..... A) Alliteration. B) Meter. C) Fallacy. D) Rhetoric. E) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhetoric. 6. What is MAN VS. NATURE? A) The central idea of a story. What the author wants you to take away from his story. B) The main character struggles against a law or rule. C) When the protagonist must struggle against a natural force. D) When the protagonist must struggle against another character. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) When the protagonist must struggle against a natural force. 7. The rain ran down the road. A) Alliteration. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 8. The giving of human characteristics to something non-human such as an inanimate object or a concept. A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Foreshadowing. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 9. Identify the literary device in the following passage: "That's the journey we're on today. But let me tell you how I came to be here. As most of you know, I'm not a native of this great state. I ..... I moved to Illinois over two decades ago. I was a young man then, just a year out of college. I knew no one in Chicago when I arrived, was without money or family connections. But a group of churches had offered me a job as a community organizer for the grand sum of 13, 000 dollars a year. And I accepted the job, sight unseen, motivated then by a single, simple, powerful idea:that I might play a small part in building a better America" (Obama 2). A) Alliteration. B) Anecdote. C) Idiom. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anecdote. 10. Bird is a symbol for freedom. A) Symbolism. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Alliteration. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Symbolism. 11. "She was the most beautiful girl in the world" is an example of what? A) Irony. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 12. What has words that consist of words and phrases that appeal to a reader's five senses? A) Imagery. B) Imagery and Sensory Details. C) Sensory Details. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery and Sensory Details. 13. The time period and location of a literary piece. A) Plot. B) Setting. C) Conflict. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Setting. 14. I can do a cartwheel! It's a piece of cake! What does the idiom "Piece of cake" mean? A) It's easy. B) It's challenging. C) A happy feeling. D) Something I can do. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It's easy. 15. Words like "the sloping porch, " "the chipping paint, " and "the rotting mold" are all examples of what? A) Symbol. B) Imagery. C) Allusion. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 16. Is the following a simile or not? Jesus is tall like a giraffe. A) Simile. B) Not. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 17. Interest and suspense are built during which part of the story? A) Exposition. B) Rising action. C) Climax. D) Falling action. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rising action. 18. Is this Imagery:I saw the stars in the sky A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 19. Why does Poppy fall into Glitter Creek? A) The turtle pushed her in. B) The rock was too slippery. C) She wanted to go swimming. D) She saw a coin she wanted to grab out of the water. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The rock was too slippery. 20. Universal patterns in all stories and mythologies regardless of culture or historical period and hypothesized that part of the human mind contained a collective unconscious shared by all members of the human species. A) Stereotype. B) Archetype. 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