This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 75 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 75 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Mars nomenclature A) Words that rhyme. B) Sound words. C) People who are all knowing. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sound words. 2. Which title is a paradox? A) Treasure Island. B) Gone Girl. C) War is Peace. D) Sprinkles. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) War is Peace. 3. Wonderfully whistling woods A) Personification. B) Alliteration. C) Anaphora. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 4. When two seemingly unlike things are compared to one another A) Theme. B) Conflict. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 5. Which of the following sets of words deal mostly with the sense of SIGHT? A) Bumpy, bald, dripping wet. B) Ticking, laughing, cracking. C) Thick, tender, rought. D) Smokey, pungent, flowery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bumpy, bald, dripping wet. 6. Canto A) Short, usually written in first person, expresses an emotion or an idea, or describes a scene, does not tell a story and is often musical. B) The use of a word or object which represents a deeper meaning than the words themselves. C) An intentional exaggeration or overstatement often used for emphasis. D) Major division of an epic or other long narrative poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Major division of an epic or other long narrative poem. 7. The heart is a ..... for love. A) Symbol. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Symbol. 8. The attitude of an author towards the subject, characters or events. A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Verbal irony. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 9. What is this an example of? "A Mouth was talking to a Nose and an Eye. A passing listening Ear Said "Pardon me, but you spoke so loud, I couldn't help but overhear." A) Hyperbole. B) Imagery. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 10. Polly Peters positively played Ping-Pong. A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Alliteration. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 11. Which literary device is used in this example?The boy was as brave as a lion in the jungle. A) Symbolism. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 12. Objects or phenomena that represent a larger abstract idea. For example, a dove representing peace. A) Symbolism. B) Irony. C) Theme. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Symbolism. 13. Where does Poppy live with her family? A) New House. B) Dimwood Forest. C) Gray House. D) Lamout's Field. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gray House. 14. Are you sure you didn't eat the last cookie? Your nose is growing like Pinocchio. A) Imagery. B) Simile. C) Allusion. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 15. Which of the following is "The time and place in which a text unfolds?" A) Characterization. B) Setting. C) Theme. D) Point of view. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Setting. 16. Third person pov A) Uses he/she but the characters speak for themselves. B) Uses i, me, and my. C) Author can get "inside the character's head". D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Uses he/she but the characters speak for themselves. 17. Words of sound. A) Linguistics. B) Pun. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Euphony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 18. Which of the following is a proper noun? A) Mrs. Pernice. B) Principal. C) Children's doctor. D) Teacher. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mrs. Pernice. 19. This device gives human qualities to an object, animal, or idea: A) Hyperbole. B) Imagery. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 20. A character (or thing) that is the source of conflict in a literary work. A) Protagonist. B) Characterization. C) Plot. D) Antagonist. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Antagonist. ← 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