This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 95 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 95 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Is this logical?Blueberries contain antioxidants. Antioxidants are good for your health. Therefore, you must eat blueberries to be healthy. A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 2. Snow speaks to the people; it's falling above in the glooming sunlight. Its white, sparkling voice echoes as it falls through the air. A) Allusion. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 3. Red, silky, dew-covered, bright A) Sound. B) Smell. C) Touch. D) Sight. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sight. 4. "The cruel wind tore off the roof of the house" is an example of: A) Personification. B) Symbolism. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 5. I reached instinctively for my knife ..... A) Adjective. B) Alliteration. C) Adverb. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adverb. 6. Maya was somewhat pleased when she scored highest in the school's calculus final. A) Understatement. B) Hyperbole. C) Juxtaposition. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Understatement. 7. I was tickled pink when I heard the news. A) Alliteration. B) Idiom. C) Symbolism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Idiom. 8. She had a photographic memory but never developed it. A) Symbolism. B) Pun. C) Hyperbole. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pun. 9. Which sentence from the selection suggests that Suzy likes to play basketball? A) Suzy's mom makes Suzy practice basketball every day. B) Suzy looks forward to her basketball games. C) Suzy scored 5 points in her last basketball game. D) Suzy and her mom get ice cream after her basketball games. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Suzy looks forward to her basketball games. 10. The way an author feels about what they are writing about. A) Author's purpose. B) Central Idea. C) Author's perspective. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Author's perspective. 11. The attitude or emotion an author shows in their writing A) Tone. B) Point of view. C) Inference. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 12. The cloud looks lonely that floats on higher valleys and hills. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 13. The bees played hide and seek with the flowers as they buzzed from one to another.Poetic device is A) Personification. B) Transferred epithet. C) Simile. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 14. This is the feeling created in a reader by a piece of writing. A) Connotation. B) Tone. C) Mood. D) Denotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mood. 15. A rhetorical appeal that appeals to emotions; evoking an emotional response. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 16. What literary device is used in the phrase 'the world is my oyster'? A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 17. Drama A) A character who is complex. B) Primary character. C) A story acted out usually on a stage. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A story acted out usually on a stage. 18. In the passage from the Bible, "Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God." (1 Corinthians 10:31), which literary device is used? A) Anaphora. B) Antithesis. C) Paradox. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Parallelism. 19. The Civil Rights Marches led by Dr. Martin Luther King are historical examples of what kind of conflict? A) Man vs man. B) Man vs self. C) Man vs technology. D) Man vs society. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Man vs society. 20. Which story involves time travel? A) "The Scarlet Ibis". B) "A Sound of Thunder". C) "The Most Dangerous Game". D) "Rights to the Streets of Memphis". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "A Sound of Thunder". ← 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