This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 112 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 112 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which type of irony is this:the audience realizes that someone is about to get killed in a scary movie but the character does not? A) Dramatic. B) Verbal. C) Situational. D) Cosmic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dramatic. 2. The local playground demanded that they fight A) Personification. B) Imagery. C) Hyperbole. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 3. When what actually happens is the opposite of what you would expect to happen A) Verbal irony. B) Dramatic irony. C) Situational irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Situational irony. 4. "I am as hungry as a bear!" The kind of figurative language used here is ..... A) Simile and personification. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 5. The author described the fight with (a) using words like "crash" and "pow" to describe the sounds of the action. A) Similarly. B) Irony. C) A nomenclature. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A nomenclature. 6. Comparison by using "like" or "as" A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Allusion. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 7. Winter's icy grip squeezed his rib cage. A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 8. Why doesn't Winnie ask the man in the yellow suit for help when she is being kidnapped? A) She is too busy trying to stay on the horse and too shocked to call out to him. B) She wants him to follow her. C) Winnie is happy and excited to be with the tucks already. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She is too busy trying to stay on the horse and too shocked to call out to him. 9. Is this logical?A cow can be black and white. My dog is black and white. Therefore, my dog is a cow. A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No. 10. A literary device in which the author speaks or describes an animal, object, or idea as if it were a person. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Idiom. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 11. When a character says something but means the opposite A) Situational Irony. B) Verbal Irony. C) Foreshadowing. D) Suspense. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Verbal Irony. 12. What is being foreshadowed? The dark storm clouds rolled across the lake and Rebecca couldn't help but shiver. The ominous feeling the black clouds gave her made her pull her wool coat closely around her. She started walking faster and faster, hoping that whatever was coming would pass quickly. A) It is going to be a sunny day. B) She isn't afraid of the storm and she is going to take it head on. C) That Rebecca is really looking forward to the storm that is going to come in. D) There is going to be an intense rain storm that Rebecca is scared of. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) There is going to be an intense rain storm that Rebecca is scared of. 13. Which devices are used in Fiction AND Non-fiction A) Imagery, Character, Diction. B) Metaphor, Simile, Definition. C) Example, Cause and effect, appeal to authority. D) Compare and contrast, Metaphor, Description. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Compare and contrast, Metaphor, Description. 14. Words that imitate their sound A) Onomatopoeia. B) Assonance. C) Rhyme. D) True Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 15. The purpose or effect of dramatic irony is to ..... A) Create tension for the audience. B) Help the reader make predictions. C) Confuse the audience. D) Trick the audience into making hte wrong prediction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Create tension for the audience. 16. PerspectiveRefers to the way a reader/viewer is positioned by the author in relation to the text and/or how a particular ideology is embedded in a text. For example, a feminist perspective. A) Author. B) Text. C) Context. D) Audience. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Context. 17. When the audience or reader knows something important that a character in the story does not know, this is called A) Situational irony. B) Intelligent craft. C) Dramatic irony. D) Rising action. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dramatic irony. 18. The child bounced the ball at the backyard barbeque A) Irony. B) Personification. C) Alliteration. D) Litotes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 19. A struggle between opposing forces (often antagonist vs. protagonist) A) Deus ex machina. B) Plot. C) Conflict. D) Characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Conflict. 20. What is a historical illusion? A) The author's use of specific word choice to help the reader better understand a character or situation in the story. B) A brief references to a famous past event or person in history. Used to add context or help give meaning. C) The use of specific detailed descriptions to enhance a story and ensure deeper understanding. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A brief references to a famous past event or person in history. Used to add context or help give meaning. ← 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