This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 65 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 65 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Definition:Logical and/or easy to understand. A) Coherent. B) Agape. C) Anonymity. D) Beguile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Coherent. 2. What does the word "Informal language" mean? A) Casual. B) Proper. C) Decent. D) Wavy hair. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Casual. 3. What is the set up of the story that tells a little bit about the character, the setting, and conflict? A) Introduction. B) Inciting incident. C) Exposition. D) Plot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exposition. 4. Definition-This is a statement in which the speaker means something very different from what he or she is saying. Think of the knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail:with both his arms sliced off, he says, nonchalantly: "It's just a flesh wound." He is ironically (and comically) underplaying the severity of his injury. A) Situational irony. B) Dramatic irony. C) Verbal irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Verbal irony. 5. Identify the literary device: "The toast was like stone" A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 6. The use of a person, place, or object that stands for something beyond itself. A) Theme. B) Hyperbole. C) Symbolism. D) Verbal irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbolism. 7. What is mythology? A) Epic poem. B) Mystery. C) Poem about a hero. D) Stories, usually about gods, goddesses, mythologic creatures, explains the origin of things. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stories, usually about gods, goddesses, mythologic creatures, explains the origin of things. 8. Language or way of speech of a particular region of the country Ex. "It wasn't no good to pet." A) Dialogue. B) Characterization. C) Communication. D) Dialect. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dialect. 9. "Jimmy isn't at school today; he must have COVID." is an example of ..... A) To man. B) Slippery slope. C) Bandwagon. D) False assumption. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) False assumption. 10. When a character has a problem with the laws or beliefs of a group it is what type of conflict? A) Man vs. Man. B) Man vs. Society. C) Man vs. Nature. D) Man vs. Self. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Man vs. Society. 11. (n.) the rhetorical contrast of ideas by means of parallel arrangements of words A) Antithesis. B) Colloquialism. C) Diction. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antithesis. 12. In old age we laugh at our past, sigh for our past, cry out for our past. A) Epistrophe. B) Sympoce. C) Anaphora. D) Understatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Epistrophe. 13. Identify the literary device used in the following sentence:'Sally sells seashells by the seashore.' A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 14. The underlying moral or lesson of a story A) Theme. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Personification. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme. 15. Repetition of vowels. A) Cacophony. B) Assonance. C) Euphony. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 16. A device in literature when an object or thing represents an idea. A) Simile. B) Symbolism. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Symbolism. 17. Which of the following applies to the following definition:a character who is alone-or thinks he or she is alone-speaks his or her innermost thoughts and feelings. A) Internal conflict. B) Hate speech. C) Soliloquy. D) Liloandstitch. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Soliloquy. 18. Which literary device is shown here?54 arduus, obscurus, caligine densus opaca, A) Unrelated. B) Zeugma. C) Chiasmus. D) Apostrophe . Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Unrelated. 19. The implied moral message or life lesson an author intends to communicate about the subject is A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Theme. D) Characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theme. 20. The elephant is a large grey mountain is an example of ..... A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. ← 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