This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 61 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 61 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. This term means to use a strong exaggeration: A) Personification. B) Idiom. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 2. After questioning him about the pronunciation of his name, Igor tells him that HIS name is actually pronounced as what? A) Argor. B) Eee-gor. C) Eye-gor. D) Fro drink. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Eye-gor. 3. The feeling the reader takes away with him or her after reading ..... A) Onomatopoeia. B) Tone. C) Theme. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mood. 4. Giving human characteristics to an animal or object A) Onomatopoeia. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 5. The climax of the story is ..... A) A decisive moment that is a major turning point in the plot. B) The solution to a problem in a story. C) When an object is used to represent something else. D) The issue that the characters have to overcome. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A decisive moment that is a major turning point in the plot. 6. Which literary device is used to hint at events that will occur later in a story? A) Foreshadowing. B) Personification. C) Adage. D) Cliche. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foreshadowing. 7. Which of the following is compared to the mother's life? A) Carpet. B) Crystal stair. C) Floor. D) Tacks. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Crystal stair. 8. The attitude a writer takes toward the subject of a work, the characters in it, or the audience A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Feeling. D) Ambiance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 9. The dog soap was a slippery eel during the dog's bath. A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 10. This referes to the alterations of stong or weak (stressed and unstressed) syllables in the flow of a poem A) Rhyme. B) Alliteration. C) Rhythm. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhythm. 11. A symbol functions to A) Represent only itself. B) Make it easy to understand the basic storyline. C) Represent something beyond itself. D) Confuse the reader. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Represent something beyond itself. 12. Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. What is the rhyme scheme? A) FATHER. B) ABCB. C) Door. D) ABBA. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) FATHER. 13. The way in which words are arranged to form phrases or and sentences. A) Pragmatics. B) Grammar. C) Lexicon. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Syntax. 14. An extreme exaggeration or overstatement ("that test took forever!" A) Juxtaposition. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 15. Giving something at is non-human human-like qualities or attributes A) Personification. B) Imagery. C) Foreshadowing. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 16. What is the following an example of ..... "You ain't nothin' but a hound dog ..... " A) Onomatopoeia. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 17. What is the definition of verbal irony? A) It occurs when incongruity appears between expectations of something to happen, and what actually happens instead. B) The literal meaning of what someone says is different from-and often opposite to-what they actually mean. C) The reader or audience has knowledge of some critical piece of information, while the character or characters to whom the information pertains do not yet themselves have the same knowledge as the audience. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The literal meaning of what someone says is different from-and often opposite to-what they actually mean. 18. The lesson, the moral; what is right or wrong. A) Monologue. B) Setting. C) Stage Direction. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Theme. 19. What's the meaning of this simile? "My mom can be as fiery as a volcano when I don't do my chores on time." A) Her hair is red. B) She talks really loudly. C) She gets really angry. D) She spits when she talks. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She gets really angry. 20. He is the last of the luckless laborers.What literary device has been used? A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. ← 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