This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 7 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 7 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. ..... characterization occurs when traits are described through words and actions. A) Direct. B) Indirect. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Indirect. 2. The particular structure or organization of a work. A) Form. B) Consonance. C) Sonnet. D) Free Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Form. 3. The use of "I", "me", "mine" in a point of view is ..... A) First Person. B) Second Person. C) Third Person. D) Omniscient. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) First Person. 4. The author directly comments on the character to show his/her thoughts beliefs or feelings. A) Direct Characterization. B) Indirect Characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Direct Characterization. 5. It was raining cats and dogs this weekend. A) Imagery. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Idiom. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Idiom. 6. Words whose meaning as a group cannot be understood as individuals A) Setting. B) Characterization. C) Irony. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Idiom. 7. In which narrative person is the story from? A) First person. B) Second person. C) Third Person. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) First person. 8. Which word is the verb in the following sentence?'The old man stumbled home in the darkness' A) Old. B) Man. C) Darkness. D) Stumbled. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stumbled. 9. The perspective, or vantage point, from which a story is told A) Apostrophe. B) Allusion. C) Alliteration. D) Point of view. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Point of view. 10. Which definition is correct for the following term:Setting A) The time and place of a work. B) When human qualities are attributed, or given, to non-human things. C) The high point in a story; the moment we've all been waiting for. D) The beginning of a story; sets up characters and setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The time and place of a work. 11. I really would like to try that new jumbo shrimp restaurant. A) Pun. B) Simile. C) Oxymoron. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oxymoron. 12. Define:IRONY? A) A warning or indication of a future event. B) A commonly used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally. C) A contradiction between what is said and what is meant. D) An extreme exaggeration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A contradiction between what is said and what is meant. 13. What element of short story is simply defined as the time, date and place where the story happened? A) Setting. B) Character. C) Conflict. D) Climax. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Setting. 14. The wind whispered through dry grass. A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Imagery. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 15. Which type of irony occurs when the audience expects one outcome but the opposite occurs? A) Situational irony. B) Verbal irony. C) Dramatic irony. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Situational irony. 16. Introduces the conflict, or problem in the story A) Universal theme. B) Falling action. C) Rising action. D) Climax. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rising action. 17. Mom always worried about money. She worried about money for rent, money for food, and money for clothes. Thoughts about money worried her night and day. The passage uses: A) Onomatopoeia. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Repitition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repitition. 18. Seven sisters slept soundly on the sand. A) Repetition. B) Personification. C) Imagery. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 19. Who is the protagonist in the story of Hansel and Gretal? A) The witch. B) The stepmother. C) The father. D) The children. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The children. 20. A type of writing that ridicules the shortcomings of people or institutions in an attempt to bring about a change A) Symbolism. B) Hyperbole. C) Satire. D) Comedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Satire. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesIntroductions QuizzesLiterary Devices Quiz 1Literary Devices Quiz 2Literary Devices Quiz 3Literary Devices Quiz 4Literary Devices Quiz 5Literary Devices Quiz 6Literary Devices Quiz 8Literary Devices Quiz 9Literary Devices Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books