This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 66 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 66 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Compassion, courage, honesty, loyalty are all examples of what? A) Theme. B) Main idea. C) Tone. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme. 2. The lives of the immigrants were represented by ..... A) The stockyards. B) The Jungle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The stockyards. 3. The following is an example of what? "Let's go to the park, " he said. A) Dialogue. B) Diction. C) Tone. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dialogue. 4. What is the difference between a metaphor and simile? A) A simile is only used in poetry. B) A metaphor is also used for measuring. C) A simile makes a comparison using like or as. A metaphor makes a comparison without using like or as. D) A simile is used throughout a story and a metaphor can only be used once in a story. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A simile makes a comparison using like or as. A metaphor makes a comparison without using like or as. 5. What does Literary Devices mean? A) Literary devices is a constituent of all works of narrative fiction-a necessary feature of verbal storytelling that can be found in any written or spoken narrative. B) Literary devices is intended to communicate something that is not directly expressed. C) An ending to an episode of a serial drama that leaves the audience in suspense. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Literary devices is a constituent of all works of narrative fiction-a necessary feature of verbal storytelling that can be found in any written or spoken narrative. 6. "Bumble bees buzzed by the bus" is an example of what? A) Alliteration. B) Idiom. C) Metaphor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 7. Which of the following sentences is the best example of personification? A) She was as shy as a chipmunk. B) Sarah is a delicate flower. C) The police station was robbed. D) The grass danced in the breeze. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The grass danced in the breeze. 8. An object or idea that stands for something else. A) Symbol. B) Metaphor. C) Speaker. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Symbol. 9. An extreme exaggeration in literature is called A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 10. How does Bradbury use vivid language to enhance the story? A) To create mental images of the characters' relationships. B) To describe the setting and events in the story. C) To symbolize the characters' mundane lives. D) To allude to the ancient art of puppetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To describe the setting and events in the story. 11. "Friends are sometimes as valuable as family" is an example of a A) Setting. B) Point of view. C) Theme. D) Plot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theme. 12. "Did a shadow fall across the moon or did the moon simply go out, extinguished as abruptly and completely as a candle? There was still the sound of leaves, a terrified, terrifying rushing. All light was gone. Darkness was complete. Suddenly the wind was gone, and all sound. Meg felt that Calvin was being torn from her. When she reached for him her fingers touched nothing." A) Sad. B) Frightening. C) Magical. D) Joyous. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Frightening. 13. Returning to an earlier time in order to clarify meaning in the present time A) Flashforward. B) Flashback. C) Resolution. D) Climax. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flashback. 14. A novel can have more than one theme. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 15. What is an example of enjambment? A) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. B) To be or not to be, that is the question. C) Shelly sells seashells by the seashore. D) I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I / Did till we loved . Show Answer Correct Answer: D) I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I / Did till we loved . 16. A reference in a story to another literary, mythological, or historical person, place, or thing is ..... A) Irony. B) Allusion. C) Illusion. D) Parabola. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 17. Talk or conversation among characters A) Dialogue. B) Dialect. C) Characterization. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dialogue. 18. Which literary device is used to give hints or clues about what will happen later in a story? A) Foreshadowing. B) Metaphor. C) Flashback. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foreshadowing. 19. Giving human like qualities to inanimate objects A) Simile. B) Repetition. C) Allusion. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 20. The cars crawled down 290 and I thought I'd never get to school on time. A) Imagery. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. ← 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