This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 102 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 102 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A comparison of two unlike things using the word "like" or "as" A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 2. ..... is used to mock with satirical remarks to amuse and hurt someone or some section of society. A) Personification. B) Irony. C) Sarcasm. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sarcasm. 3. The feeling or "vibe" an author tries to set/create in a work through certain words or descriptions: A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Foreshadowing. D) Perspective. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 4. Which literary device is used in the following sentence:'The bees buzzed around the flowers'? A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 5. Select the incorrect use of an apostrophe. A) Jelly beans are Alex's favourite candy!. B) Jelly bean's are Alex's favourite candy!. C) Jelly beans are everyone's favourite candy!. D) The Jones' love to eat jelly beans as a family. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jelly bean's are Alex's favourite candy!. 6. Heather is worried that her new hair cut doesn't look very good. A) Internal. B) External. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Internal. 7. During a school play, Nora said, 'Oliver's smile was as bright as the sun.' Which literary device is being used in this sentence? A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 8. Where the narrator tells the story to another character using the word 'you.' A) 1st Person Point of View. B) 2nd Person Point of View. C) 3rd Person Point of View. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2nd Person Point of View. 9. A character in conflict with the protagonist A) Antagonist. B) Villain. C) Narrator. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antagonist. 10. Diction is A) Reading aloud. B) Taking notes. C) Word choice. D) How you speak. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Word choice. 11. Something that repeats over and over A) Repetition. B) Hyperbole. C) Cliche. D) Characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 12. "Metal ground against metal; a lurching shudder shook the floor beneath him. He fell down at the sudden movement and shuffled backward on his hands and feet, drops of sweat beading on his forehead despite the cool air. His back struck a hard metal wall" A) Setting. B) Imagery. C) Characterization. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 13. EXAMPLE:A tree might represent growth and life, while a desert represent emptiness or isolation. A) Metaphor. B) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Symbolism. 14. What literary device is being used to describe the painting with the vivid reds and mellow greens and the feeling of the salt air on your skin? A) Theme. B) Setting. C) Plot. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 15. Writing Starting, end Lyrical sounds Effervescent vowels go up Writing starting, end. A) Simile. B) Alliteration. C) Refrain. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Refrain. 16. ..... is the repetition of beginning consonant sounds. A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Alligator. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 17. When an author indirectly hints at-through things such as dialogue, description, or characters' actions-what's to come later on in the story. A) Metaphor. B) Foreshadowing. C) Colloquialism. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foreshadowing. 18. This is an example of which literary device? You try to scream but terror takes the sound before you make itYou start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes A) Metaphor. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 19. What is the meaning of the following simile? "as hungry as a bear recently awakened from hibernation" A) Someone is really hungry. B) Someone is slightly sleepy. C) Someone is extremely sleepy. D) Someone is slightly hungry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Someone is really hungry. 20. The thoughts, beliefs, or feelings of the characters are revealed through his/her own actions, words, physical description, thoughts or even other character's opinions of him/her. A) Direct Characterization. B) Indirect Characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Indirect Characterization. ← PreviousNext →Related 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 9Literary Devices Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books