This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 98 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 98 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A euphemism is A) When you use a word with a positive connotation. B) When you only use passages that contain extreme exaggeration. C) When you deliberately use words that are milder or less offensive; understatement. D) The last rhyming word in each stanza, and its correlating opposite. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) When you deliberately use words that are milder or less offensive; understatement. 2. ..... = A series of events that happen after the climax. A) Conflict. B) Exposition. C) Resolution. D) Falling Action. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Falling Action. 3. Night and day, Good and evil, Batman and Joker A) Irony. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Juxtaposition. 4. Which is NOT an allusion Chesterton made? A) Apollo. B) Romeo. C) Robin Hood. D) Joan of Arc. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Romeo. 5. The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning. The meaning is implied by a sentence or word that is actually different from the literal meaning. A) Irony. B) Imagery. C) Metaphor. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irony. 6. A ..... modifies/describes a verb, adjective or another adverb. A) Adjective. B) Adverb. C) Noun. D) Verb. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Adverb. 7. When the reader learns about a character through their speech, thoughts, actions, looks, or interaction with others. A) Direct characterization. B) Indirect characterization. C) Antagonist. D) Protagonist. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Indirect characterization. 8. He was dark and cruel; she was pleasant and kind. A) Antithesis. B) Contrast. C) Analogy. D) Caricature. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Contrast. 9. The hockey player lost his control when the puck ran across the ice. A) Oxymoron. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 10. What is the best definition of personification? A) A recurring subject, theme, or idea in a literary work. B) A comparison of two unlike things using like or as. C) A device in literature when an object or thing represents an idea. D) An object or idea given human qualities or a human form. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An object or idea given human qualities or a human form. 11. What is an example of? "If I eat one more piece of pie, I'll die! If I can't have one more piece of pie, I'll die! A) Imagery. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 12. An example of a Hyperbole A) The sun is like a yellow ball of fire in the sky. B) Jumbo Shrimp. C) The sun is like a yellow ball of fire in the sky. D) Mile-high ice-cream cones. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mile-high ice-cream cones. 13. "The fire danced in her eyes" is an example of A) Onomatopoeia. B) Personification. C) Idiom. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 14. The way the reader feels after reading something is called ..... A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Hyperbole. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mood. 15. A metaphor compares two unlike items by saying that one item IS the other item. Which of these is a metaphor? A) "There was a blinding flash, a jaw-rattling boom!, and our car exploded.". B) "By the window, sitting on a wooden tripod stool, was the most gruesome memento of all:a mummy.". C) "Mrs. Dodds was a sand castle in a power fan.". D) "Zeus, the Lord of the Gods, wore a dark blue pinstriped suit.". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "Mrs. Dodds was a sand castle in a power fan.". 16. A figure of speech that refers to a well-known story, event, person, or object in order to make a comparison in the readers' minds A) Allusion. B) Repetition. C) Inference. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 17. A descriptive technique that names a person, thing or action as something else. A) Antithesis. B) Metaphor. C) Emotive language. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 18. Which definition is correct for the following term:Tone A) When the author uses descriptive language to "paint a picture" in the reader's mind. B) The author's attitude toward the writing; the way feelings are expressed. C) When an author gives the reader hints or clues as to what will happen next. D) When the audience knows something that the characters don't. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The author's attitude toward the writing; the way feelings are expressed. 19. What is another word that can be used when talking about verbal irony? A) Story. B) Sarcasm. C) Joke. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sarcasm. 20. "Well now, one winter it was so cold that all the geese flew backward and all the fish moved south and even the snow turned blue. Late at night, it got so frigid that all spoken words froze solid afore they could be heard. People had to wait until sunup to find out what folks were talking about the night before." A) Metaphor. B) Irony. C) Unrelated. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. ← 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