This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 113 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 113 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which is an example of description? A) An extremely long and wordy passage everyone will choose because long passages = good passages, right?. B) While I was in bed with the flu, I could hear the sound of the loud music and people's overlapping chatter downstairs. C) My friends were dancing, mingling, having a good time. D) Meanwhile, my classmate Egan was a musical genius-a god according to his friends. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) While I was in bed with the flu, I could hear the sound of the loud music and people's overlapping chatter downstairs. 2. A theme that is found throughout all of literature in different cultures and in different time periods A) Stated Theme. B) Implied Theme. C) Recurring Theme. D) Universal Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Universal Theme. 3. 'The sea was as flat as a plate-glass window.' A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 4. Periodic Sentence-A long sentence comprised of several short balanced, dependent clauses ending with an independent clause that completes the idea. A) "My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark thatlingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; andbehold a man transformed into abrute!" (38). B) Two ideas seem equal but theysuggest a closer look;may emphasize a contrast in ideas(antithesis). C) "A mere look, word, or motion, -amistake, accident, or want of power, -are all matters for which a slave maybe whipped at any time" (47). (also parallel). D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark thatlingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; andbehold a man transformed into abrute!" (38). 5. Identify the literary device: "The tables folded like butterflies" A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Allusion. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 6. "The children were flowers grown in concrete gardens" is an example of: A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 7. Repetition of initial consonant sounds, like the "w" sound in these lines: "Once up a midnight dreary, While I pondered, weak and weary." A) Personification. B) Alliteration. C) Symbolism. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 8. A conflict between two people A) Man vs. society. B) Man vs. man. C) Man vs. nature. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Man vs. man. 9. What literary device is used when a poet or author uses words to create vivid images in the reader's mind? A) Diction. B) Imagery. C) Mood. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 10. The rhyming of the end word with a word in the middle of a line A) Rhyming couplet. B) Free verse. C) Paradox. D) Internal rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Internal rhyme. 11. The sentences below are examples of Metaphor, EXCEPT. A) You are an angel. B) Dexter swims like a fish. C) Her diary was her bestfriend. D) Chris is a walking encyclopedia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dexter swims like a fish. 12. A discussion between two or more characters in a piece of literature is ..... A) Monologue. B) Diatribe. C) Dialogue. D) Conversation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dialogue. 13. The perspective from which the story is told, 1st or 3rd person A) Point of view. B) Nonfiction. C) Theme. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Point of view. 14. What is the definition of alienation? A) Hope and hopelessness. B) Guilt. C) Ability to influence or control others. D) Feeling of being isolated or excluded. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Feeling of being isolated or excluded. 15. He-Man, Percy Jackson, Katniss Everdeen, Jack Sparrow are examples of what? A) Setting. B) Imagery. C) Plot. D) Characters. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Characters. 16. This is an example of which literary device? You're gonna leave 'em falling downBoom, boom, boomEven brighter than the moon, moon, moon A) Metaphor. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 17. Gradually, the countryside became greener that I'd ever seen it before. There were lush fields and tall trees with no branches but great shaggy bushes of fronds at the top. A) Personification. B) Rhetorical question. C) Metaphorical language. D) Emotive language. E) Visual imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Visual imagery. 18. Telling someone how somethin g happened in order of events in which a story happened is discussing the ..... A) Answers. B) Story. C) Plot. D) Allegory. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Plot. 19. A Dynamic Character is: A) A character that is different at the beginning and end of the story. B) The main character. C) The enemy of the main character. D) A character that is the same at the start and end of a story. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A character that is different at the beginning and end of the story. 20. What is the definition of context clues? A) Using words around a text to figure out a word. B) Creating a set of clues to help someone find their location. C) Providing the background on a time period to help the setting. D) Describing the reason why a character did something. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Using words around a text to figure out a word. ← 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