This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 59 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 59 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. 2 lines in a row rhyme A) Metaphor. B) Imagery. C) Assonance. D) Rhyming couplets. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyming couplets. 2. And she said hello to meand she said I do not see is an example of ..... A) Simile. B) Refrain. C) Personification. D) Cliche. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Refrain. 3. The metaphor is a comparison. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 4. A plot device in which an abrupt ending occurs ..... A) Suspense. B) Dramatic irony. C) Cliffhanger. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cliffhanger. 5. "Love is a fruit in season at all times and in reach of every hand." A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Rhyming. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 6. What question do we need to ask ourselves to determine the mood of a story? A) How is the character feeling?. B) How does a story make me feel as I read it?. C) How does the teacher feel?. D) How does the author feel?. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) How does a story make me feel as I read it?. 7. My backpack weighs 1000 pounds! A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 8. Your friend falls. You laugh at him. Then you fall. A) Verbal. B) Situational. C) Dramatic. D) Not Ironic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Not Ironic. 9. Enjambment breaks line in poems with (a) A) A nothing. B) A comma. C) A period. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A nothing. 10. Description or narration to distill complex ideas into a simple, accessible story. A) Allegory. B) Alliteration. C) Allusion. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allegory. 11. Will you please stop talking A) . B) ?. C) !. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) ?. 12. Clues an author provides about events that may occur later in the story A) Allusion. B) Mood. C) Tone. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Foreshadowing. 13. What is the definition of protagonist? A) The character the reader follows throughout the text. B) The character that works against the main character. C) The character that supports the main character. D) The characters that are never fully developed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The character the reader follows throughout the text. 14. When a character exhibits an abundance of pride. This pride often results in the character's downfall. A) Hamartia. B) Hubris. C) Turning Point. D) Resolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hubris. 15. Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not. The same particle does not rise from the valley to the ridge. This entire page is an example of A) Parallelism. B) Extended metaphor. C) Simple sentences. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Extended metaphor. 16. A brief reference to a person, event, or place in history, or to a work of art/ literature A) Allusion. B) Apostrophe. C) Alliteration. D) Ambiguity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 17. She is the wind beneath my wings A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Iambic Pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 18. "This woman was an alley cat pouncing on a mouse, digging deep with hurtful words." A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 19. Reference to something historical or literary outside the text A) Allusion. B) Ellipsis. C) Alliteration. D) Litotes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 20. Opposite ideas joined to create an effect A) Oxymoron. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron. ← 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