This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 79 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 79 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Explain what verse means in poetry. A) Another name for poetry, lines 'turn' at a specific point. B) Repetition of vowel sounds at close intervals. C) Addressing someone absent or nonhuman as if alive. D) Rhyme that comes at the end of lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme that comes at the end of lines. 2. "Make plain the reason tortured Tantalus/ Is baited by the fickle fruit, declare/ If merely brute caprice dooms Sisyphus/ To struggle up a never-ending stair." A) Symbolism. B) Personification. C) Allusion. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 3. A round character is a character that ..... A) Displays multiple personality traits and is complex. B) Is two-dimensional and uncomplicated. C) Is a perfect circle. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Displays multiple personality traits and is complex. 4. The sun was beating down on me with its rays.-El sol me golpeaba con sus rayos. A) Understatement. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 5. Billy's purpose in coming to Bath is ..... A) To vacation. B) To start a job. C) To visit friends. D) To go to a funeral. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To start a job. 6. "Christy didn't like to spend money. She was no Scrooge, but she seldom purchased anything except the bare necessities." What type of literary device is this an example of? A) Metonymy. B) Allusion. C) Personification. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 7. "The wind was an angry witch, howling across the night sky." is an example of ..... A) Metaphor. B) Imagery. C) Personification. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 8. If there is a hint of something to come, the author is using: A) Foreshadowing. B) Hyperbole. C) Flashback. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foreshadowing. 9. Which of the following is an example of an anachronism? A) An Apple watch in 2018. B) An iPad in 2013. C) A cell phone in 1962. D) A laptop in 1989. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A cell phone in 1962. 10. What's an example of sarcasm? A) Chanting, "You're an awesome athlete!" to an Olympian. B) Saying, "Good job!" to your driving friend who just hit a car in front. C) When the sun is shining and the birds are singing, you say, "Nice weather we're having, right?". D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Saying, "Good job!" to your driving friend who just hit a car in front. 11. Inanimate objects are endowed with human characteristics. A) Personification. B) Imagery. C) Allusion. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 12. Symbolism is using ..... A) One thing to represent an idea, thoughts, or feelings. B) A chicken to represne. C) Using words that sound the same. D) The artistic arrangement of words, visuals, and literary devices. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) One thing to represent an idea, thoughts, or feelings. 13. This picture represents a/an A) Onomatopoeia. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 14. Expressed in terms intended to persuade or impress A) Ambiguous. B) Rhetorical. C) Connotation. D) Denotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhetorical. 15. Which type of conflict(s) can you find in the story of Illegal? A) Person VS Technology. B) Person VS Person and Person VS Nature. C) Person VS Supernatural being. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Person VS Person and Person VS Nature. 16. "I'll love you until the rivers run dry and the mountains crumble." This statement is an example of: A) Hyperbole. B) Irony. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 17. A conversation between two or more people in a literary work. A) Dialogue. B) Rhetorical questions. C) Implicit. D) Narrator. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dialogue. 18. Giving an animal, object, or idea human characteristics or personality A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 19. A devil is the ..... of an angel. A) Parallelism. B) Antithesis. C) Either-or fallacy. D) Adjective. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antithesis. 20. During a sunny day at the park, Valeria noticed that Ruth's smile was as bright as the sun. Which literary device is being used in this observation? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole tagsCCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.5CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.5. D) None of above. 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