This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 97 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 97 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "Stormy and wet, stormy and wet; and mud, mud, mud, deep in all the streets. Day after day, a vast heavy veil had been driving over London from the East, and it drove still, as if in the East there were an Eternity of cloud and wind. So furious had been the gusts, that high buildings in town had had the lead stripped off their roofs; and in the country, trees had been torn up, and sails of windmills carried away; and gloomy accounts had come in from the coast, of shipwreck and death. Violent blasts of rain had accompanied these rages of wind, and the day just closed as I sat down to read had been the worst of all." The above lines are Pip's observation on the weather before Magwitch's arrival. A) Flashback. B) Flashforward. C) Foreshadowing. D) Allegory. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Foreshadowing. 2. Which list shows the plot elements in the correct order? A) Exposition, falling action, climax, rising action, resolution. B) Exposition, falling action, rising action, climax, resolution. C) Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution. D) Rising action, falling action, exposition, climax, resolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution. 3. What word describes a person, place or thing? A) Adjective. B) Noun. C) They tend. D) Adverb. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Adjective. 4. This type of rhyme occurs when words sound similar, but aren't true rhymes. A) End rhyme. B) Internal rhyme. C) Slant rhyme. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Slant rhyme. 5. Pathos A) Ways to persuade people; the art of persuasion. B) Persuasion through trustworthiness or credibility whether by showing where the persuader got their information from or by using an expert. (ex:a dentist on TV telling you to use this toothpaste for your teeth.). C) Persuasion through emotions. (Ex:those sad dog and cat shelter commercials.). D) Persuasion through logical thinking and reasoning. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Persuasion through emotions. (Ex:those sad dog and cat shelter commercials.). 6. The type of conflict when a character is up against a natural disaster, a disease outbreak, or stranded in an isolated location. A) Man vs. man. B) Man vs. nature. C) Man vs. society. D) Man vs. self. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Man vs. nature. 7. An author is sending his/her message to the audience through this: A) Theme. B) Voice. C) Tone. D) All of the above/choices. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above/choices. 8. What literary device involves giving human characteristics to inanimate objects? A) Dramatic monologue. B) Epic theme. C) Personification. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 9. Author's purpose A) The character telling the story. B) The author's intent for writing the story. C) The moral or lesson told in the story. D) The mood implied by an author's word choice and the way the writing makes the reader feel. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The author's intent for writing the story. 10. Which sentence shows a correct use of Parallelism? A) My hobbies are writing, travelling, and eating. B) My hobbies are writing, to travel, and eating. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) My hobbies are writing, travelling, and eating. 11. Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof(Pharrell Williams) A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Imagery. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 12. This literary device gives animals or objects human characteristics. A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 13. Unconquerable, unyielding. A) Perilous. B) Indominable. C) Eddies. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Indominable. 14. "He felt like the stars had been pulverized by the sound of the black jets ..... " A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 15. Makes a comparison between two unlike things, implying they are identical A) Simile. B) Imagery. C) Metaphor. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 16. Overused idea or expression A) Repitition. B) Cliche. C) Foreshadowing. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cliche. 17. The use of words to imitate sound. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 18. The bells clanged and jingled and whooosh went the wind! A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 19. Two characters in a movie are speaking Spanish because they want to keep a secret from a third character who only speaks English. The audience knows that the third character was born in Mexico and actually speaks Spanish fluently. A) Verbal. B) Situational. C) Dramatic. D) Not Ironic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dramatic. 20. Speech A) A historical account or biography written from personal knowledge or special sources. B) A speech that contains religious references that reflects on morals. C) Public speaking to an audience about a certain topic or idea. (talking as a use of communication). D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Public speaking to an audience about a certain topic or idea. 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