This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 58 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 58 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which is not one of the 5 senses? A) Touch. B) Taste. C) Smell. D) Talk. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Talk. 2. Bat and cat are at the track is an example of ..... A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Similes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assonance. 3. A figure of speech in which words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words. It may also be a situation that ends up in quite a different way than what is generally anticipated. It is a difference between appearance and reality. This is known as A) Paradox. B) Connotation. C) Idiom. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Irony. 4. "Across the pond a bullfrog spoke a deep note of warning." A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 5. What is the best definition of figurative language? A) Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling. B) A conversation between characters or speakers in a literary work or the speech of characters in a drama. C) A recurring subject, theme, or idea in a literary work. D) A device in literature when an object or thing represents an idea. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling. 6. Which is an visual imagery A) Sour fruit. B) Deafening sound. C) Multicoloured dress. D) Speak silent. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Multicoloured dress. 7. Identify the literary device in the sentence 'The world is a stage.' A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 8. I have a red car. My car was in a wreck. Therefore, all red cars get wrecked. A) Hasty generalization. B) Either-or fallacy. C) Round about reasoning. D) Ad hominem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hasty generalization. 9. Emotion, that affects literature. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Pun. C) Tone. D) Internal Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tone. 10. If the author directly tells you what the character is like, that is: A) Direct characterization. B) Indirect characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Direct characterization. 11. What is a whiplash ending? A) A tragic ending. B) A happy ending. C) A surprise ending. D) A story with no ending. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A surprise ending. 12. Each time a person speaks, we call this ..... A) Dialogue. B) Indent. C) Quotation mark. D) Sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dialogue. 13. What is the arrangement of rhyme at the end of a line of poetry? A) Personification. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme scheme. 14. This type of imagery is use address to our taste buds. This way the writer is capable of making us taste the food he or she is describing in the story. A) Visual imagery. B) Olfactory imagery. C) Gustatory imagery. D) Auditory imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gustatory imagery. 15. When an author tells the audience what the personality of the character is A) Mood. B) Indirect characterization. C) Sensory details. D) Direct characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Direct characterization. 16. Mrs. Nacarlo, Candlewood Middle School, West Hollow Middle School, and New York are all examples of: A) Common nouns. B) Prone. C) Proper nouns. D) Articles. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Proper nouns. 17. Repetition of a particular sound in the first syllables of a series of words or phrases A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 18. Which of the following is NOT a pun? A) Let's taco bout it. B) You want a pizza me?. C) Taco Belle. D) Cat in the Hat. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cat in the Hat. 19. Feelings or meanings conveyed in the poem A) Stanza. B) Tone. C) Similarly. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 20. Occurs when a speaker speaks something contradictory to what he/she intends to say A) Dramatic irony. B) Situational irony. C) Verbal irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Verbal irony. ← 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