This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 109 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 109 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. I am a black ocean in your future. I am a dark ocean in your future. A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Understatement. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 2. Employing the five senses (sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste) to engage a reader's interest A) Figurative language. B) Characterization. C) Dialogue. D) Sensory details. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sensory details. 3. The "turning point" of the literary work. A) Rising Action. B) Theme. C) Setting. D) Climax. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Climax. 4. A comparison between two unlike things with the intent of giving added meaning to one of them. No special words are used. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 5. Who throws their money around like dandelions into the sunlight? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 6. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy. A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Repetition. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 7. The sequence of events that happen in a story A) Plot. B) Theme. C) Characterization. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plot. 8. The repetition of consonant sounds, Ex. "Fetched fresh, as I suppose, off some sweet wood." A) Consonance. B) Alliteration. C) Allusion. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 9. What literary device is being used in the sentence 'The sun is a golden ball'? A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 10. Uncle Jon smells bad and wears old clothes. A) Direct Characterization. B) Indirect Characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Direct Characterization. 11. The point of the greatest emotional intensity. A) Theme. B) Setting. C) Narrative Poem. D) Climax. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Climax. 12. "The world invented weapons and words, " A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Parallelism. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 13. Which literary device is a mournful poem or lament for the dead? A) Dialogue. B) Elegy. C) Juxtaposition. D) Invective. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Elegy. 14. What issue causes the conflict between Shylock and the Christian characters to come to a head? A) War. B) Mercy. C) Politics. D) Love. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mercy. 15. Suggests a hidden meaning via the use of metaphoric examples. It is a device where the meaning of a greater, often abstract moral or political concept is conveyed with the aid of more material objects or ideas being used as an example. A) Allegory. B) Alliteration. C) Anagram. D) Characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allegory. 16. In the phrase 'Time is money', which literary device is being used? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 17. A character who has only one or two personality traits A) Dynamic. B) Static. C) Flat. D) Round. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Flat. 18. Rachel ran right until she realized she was running round and round. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 19. The expression of the writer's attitude toward a subject. A) Mood. B) Allusion. C) Irony. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tone. 20. "Brian was a wall, quickly returning every tennis ball back at his opponent over the net." This is an example of ..... A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. ← 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