This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 99 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 99 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Introduces the background information about events, settings, and characters to the audience/readers A) Exposition. B) Rising action. C) Inciting incident. D) Climax. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Exposition. 2. A reference to a well-known story, event, person, or object in order to make a comparison in the readers' mind A) Allusion. B) Metaphore. C) Symbol. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 3. Which point of view has a narrator telling the story from the outside? Pronouns of her, him, he, she, and it are used. A) 1st person. B) 2nd person. C) 3rd person. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3rd person. 4. Struggle or tension between 2 opposing forces in a work of literature. Can be internal or external. A) Epithet. B) Mood. C) Conflict. D) Intervention of the gods. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Conflict. 5. True or False:Every conflict in literature has a resolution. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 6. Read the following sentence from "Thank You, Mr. Falker" ."Almost as if it were magic, or as if light had poured into her brain, the words and sentences started to take shape on the page as they never had before."The author uses a simile in this sentence to reveal that Trisha- A) Is excited to realize that she has finally overcome her biggest problem. B) Believes that magical powers have finally given her the ability to read. C) Is pretending to read so that Mr. Falker will be proud of her. D) Knows that she would never be able to read if not for witchcraft. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Is excited to realize that she has finally overcome her biggest problem. 7. Emma saw May, the new girl, eating lunch by herself. She didn't want May to have to sit by herself. So Emma invited May to sit with her and her friends. Emma thinks it is important to ..... A) Always bring you lunch to school. B) Help new people feel welcome. C) Let people eat by themselves. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Help new people feel welcome. 8. Read the following sentence from "Thank You, Mr. Falker" ."Trisha could feel the tears burning in her eyes."This sentence includes ..... A) Personification. B) Exaggeration. C) Sensory language. D) A comparison. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sensory language. 9. Men sell the wedding bells. A) Imagery-example. B) Alliteration-example. C) Onomatopoeia-example. D) Assonance-example. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Assonance-example. 10. When one says something but means the opposite A) First person POV. B) Verbal irony. C) Narration. D) Rising action. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Verbal irony. 11. The emotional atmosphere of a piece-how the reader "feels" A) Imagery. B) Characterization. C) Mood. D) Motif. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mood. 12. A series of words in quick succession that all start with the same letter or sound. A) Allegory. B) Alliteration. C) Allusion. D) Anachronism. E) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 13. Which literary device refers to the succession of words with similar sounds? A) Anaphora. B) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 14. "When they pulled into a gas station, it was as though they'd arrived at the finest restaurant in the world." A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 15. Compares two things NOT using like or as A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 16. A statement that is seemingly contradictory and yet is perhaps true. A) Allegory. B) Paradox. C) Irony. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paradox. 17. A flasback is a A) Comparison of two like things using like or as. B) An exaggerated statement used to heighten effect. C) An event or scene about past events shown at a present time. D) Gives human characteristics to non-human things. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An event or scene about past events shown at a present time. 18. Something-a person, object, situation, or action which has a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning A) Personification. B) Long and short sentences. C) Symbol/symbolism. D) Similes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbol/symbolism. 19. Any person, object, or action that has additional meaning beyond itself A) Trait. B) Symbol. C) Pun. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Symbol. 20. What is the action verb in the sentence? I believe it will rain today. A) Believe. B) Will. C) Rain. D) Today. 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