This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 96 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 96 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The sentence "Her smile lit up the room like a sun" is an example of ..... A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 2. What is flashback? A) An interruption in the present, so the reader's can know about the past. B) Omen about what is going to happen in the future. C) When character is given the characteristic of someone or something. D) When character has to infer the characteristic of someone or something with the text evidence provided. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An interruption in the present, so the reader's can know about the past. 3. What literary device is used in this line: "The one and only son of Tony, Montana" A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Consonance. 4. When the reader or audience knows something that a character or characters do not know A) Verbal irony. B) Dramatic irony. C) Situational irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dramatic irony. 5. Why did Liesel and her mother get off the train before they arrived in Mulching? A) The conductor told them to. B) They were hungry. C) Her brother died. D) She wanted to find a book. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Her brother died. 6. Appealing to credibility A) Pathos. B) Ethos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ethos. 7. The author tells you something about the character directly A) Foreshadowing. B) Indirect Characterization. C) Direct Characterization. D) Foil. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Direct Characterization. 8. What is the term for the use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities, by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal sense? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbolism. 9. Homelessness amongst children has risen 25% in this country in the past decade A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) Anecdote. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 10. The introduction of the characters and setting of a story A) Setting. B) Climax. C) Conflict. D) Exposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Exposition. 11. "He was up before day-break, and came upon the Park with the morning, which was clad in the least engaging of the three hundred and sixty-five dresses in the wardrobe of the year." (from Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens)What does the personification in the above quote suggest about the weather in the park? A) It was an ideal day for a walk in the park. B) The weather in the park was unusual compared to what it usually was. C) It was a dreary day and probably not the best for a walk. D) There was a thunderstorm in the park that morning. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It was a dreary day and probably not the best for a walk. 12. Choose an example of a Metaphor. A) The wind howled in the night. B) That boy in my class is as funny as a clown. C) His students are puppets on a string. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) His students are puppets on a string. 13. Which literary device is being used in the following sentence:'Her eyes were as blue as the ocean.'? A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 14. What is the following an example of?He's an awful man A) Evaluative Language. B) Modality. C) Neologism. D) Parody. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Evaluative Language. 15. What literary element is present in the line below:The picture of the cat was as foggy as Ireland. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Verbal Irony. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 16. What is this an example of? She was as tall as a palm tree. A) Metaphor. B) Refrain. C) Allusion. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 17. Time and place the story takes placeEx:Elmore, Arkansas, 1900s A) Setting. B) Plot. C) Imagery. D) Exposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Setting. 18. Climax is..... A) Events that make up a story. B) The exploding part of story/ turning point of story. C) Setting and characters. D) The solution to the problem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The exploding part of story/ turning point of story. 19. Omar was as white as a sheet when he stepped off the roller coaster. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. E) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 20. Which of the following is an example of something that is "compact" ? A) A large, spacious room. B) A cluttered and disorganized space. C) A small and cramped room. D) A room with many decorations. 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