This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 114 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 114 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What type of poem is a popular form of short, humorous verse that is usually nonsensical and consists of five lines rhyming aabba? A) Rhyming Poem. B) Limerick. C) Sonnet. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Limerick. 2. What is a warning or indication of a future event? A) Metaphor. B) Flashback. C) Foreshadow. D) Synonym. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Foreshadow. 3. Nothing annoys me more than rapidly clicking your pen. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Idiom. C) Metaphor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 4. End of the central conflict? A) Falling action. B) Resolution. C) Climax. D) Rising action. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Resolution. 5. When the opposite happens from what the reader thinks will happen A) Fiction. B) Situational irony. C) Rising action. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Situational irony. 6. Read the following passage carefully. Which sentence foreshadows that the wedding will not go as planned? Joe and Jill had been planning their wedding for months. In the weeks leading up the big day, they had checked the weather forecast obsessively to see if they would be able to get married in Jill's mother's rose garden or if they would have to move the ceremony indoors. All the forecasts said the weather would be sunny and warm, perfect for an outdoor ceremony. On the morning of the event, while Jill and her bridesmaids got ready, Joe and his groomsman set up tables and chairs in the garden. They decorated each table with a crisp white tablecloth and a vase of flowers. As they headed inside to change into their tuxedos, one of the groomsman noticed a dark cloud far off in the distance. A) All the forecasts said the weather would be sunny and warm, perfect for an outdoor ceremony. B) As they headed inside to change into their tuxedos, one of the groomsman noticed a dark cloud far off in the distance. C) On the morning of the event, while Jill and her bridesmaids got ready, Joe and his groomsman set up tables and chairs in the garden. D) They decorated each table with a crisp white tablecloth and a vase of flowers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) As they headed inside to change into their tuxedos, one of the groomsman noticed a dark cloud far off in the distance. 7. Pablo and Kane were playing soccer. Kane started playing too rough and Pablo got very upset and pushed him into the net. What kind of conflict? A) Character vs character. B) Character vs self. C) Character vs nature. D) Character vs society. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Character vs character. 8. What is the definition for Pathetic Fallacy? A) The attributing of human characteristics to non-human objects, by which inanimate objects appear to have life and/or feelings. B) This involves giving any non-human object or nature some kind of human feelings or senses. C) Two contradictory words or concepts used together to create a strange or complex thing/idea that still makes sense. D) A motif is an idea, symbol, object, concept or theme that is always present throughout an entire text, playing a significant and/or symbolic role in the narrative. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The attributing of human characteristics to non-human objects, by which inanimate objects appear to have life and/or feelings. 9. I'm reading a book about anti-gravity. It's impossible to put down. A) Flashback. B) Connotation. C) Irony. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pun. 10. A figure of speech involving a comparison of two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 11. The art of persuasive speaking or writing. A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Rhetoric. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhetoric. 12. Lover of books A) Bibliophobia. B) Biblioklept. C) Bibliology. D) Bibliography. E) Bibliophile. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Bibliophile. 13. The use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, a thing, a place, or an experience A) Conceit. B) Foil. C) Imagery. D) Vernacular. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 14. Which word means a poem in which the ends of the lines have words that sound the same? A) Rhyme. B) Internal ryme. C) Simile. D) Personification. E) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 15. What is the intense feeling that an audience goes through while waiting for the outcome of certain events? A) Suspense. B) Tone. C) Mood. D) Flashback. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Suspense. 16. Which of the following types of conflict is internal? A) Man. vs. Self. B) Man. vs. Man. C) Man. vs. Nature. D) Man. vs. Society. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Man. vs. Self. 17. Name the literary device here:She is jailbait all set on a trigger. A) Allusion. B) Metaphor. C) Irony. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 18. Who is a protagonist in a story. A) The bad guy in the story. B) The main character. C) Good guys in the story. D) Best friend of main character. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The main character. 19. Human traits are given to a nonhuman thing A) Imagery. B) Allusion. C) Connotation. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 20. Are you hungry? Let's find a cafe for ....., ..... and ..... (use alliteration) A) Egg, chips and cola. B) Coffee, cakes and tea. C) Coffee, cakes and cola. D) Fish, chips and coffee. 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