Literary Devices Quiz 71 (20 MCQs)

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1. Giving an inanimate object human characteristics

Correct Answer: A) Personification.

2. What is the usual reason one might use a hyperbole?

Correct Answer: C) To emphasise the scale of something.

3. The general idea or insight about life that a writer wishes to express, the moral of the story. (Usually one to three words)

Correct Answer: C) Theme.

4. Repetition of internal vowel sound in a line of poetry.

Correct Answer: C) Assonance.

5. In "The Scarlet Ibis, " the narrator experienced internal conflict, known as

Correct Answer: A) Person versus self.

6. A contrast between what a reader or character expects and what actually exists or happens

Correct Answer: B) Irony.

7. Explains one thing in terms of another to highlight the ways in which they are alike.

Correct Answer: C) Analogy.

8. O happy three and four!

Correct Answer: D) Silence.

9. The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky.

Correct Answer: C) Personification.

10. The repetition of the initial consonant at least twice in a row.

Correct Answer: C) Alliteration.

11. The "theme" of a narrative can also be referred to as .....

Correct Answer: C) The main idea.

12. The time and place where the story occurs

Correct Answer: D) Setting.

13. "I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time."

Correct Answer: D) Paradox.

14. What poetic device is used in this picture?

Correct Answer: B) Alliteration.

15. Which word enhances the images in the sentence: "The raindrops pitter-pattered on the rooftop."

Correct Answer: B) Pitter-pattered.

16. Identify the sentence that uses personification.

Correct Answer: B) The mountain peak touched the sky.

17. When one thing is expected, but the exact opposite occurs.

Correct Answer: D) Irony.

18. Words that imitate the sound they are

Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia.

19. A theme in literature is .....

Correct Answer: C) A message about life or human nature.

20. Represents goodness, considered Christ-like

Correct Answer: A) Simon.