This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 12 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 12 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The point of greatest tension in a story, where the conflict begins to be resolved A) Rising action. B) Climax. C) Falling action. D) Resolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Climax. 2. The applause erupted from the audience, a thunderous roar of appreciation. A) Visual imagery. B) Auditory imagery. C) Olfactory imagery. D) Gustatory imagery. E) Tactile imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Auditory imagery. 3. Identify the adjective phrase in this sentence:The store on the corner was damaged during a severe hailstorm. A) Store on the corner. B) On the corner. C) During a severe hailstorm. D) Was damaged. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) On the corner. 4. This literary element involves a struggle between two opposing forces. It is the main problem of the story A) Theme. B) Exposition. C) Irony. D) Conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Conflict. 5. What literary device is used in the sentence:'I've told you a million times'? A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 6. What literary device is used in this line: "I could eat a horse" A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 7. What is a static character? A) A character who undergoes a significant internal change throughout the course of a story. B) A character seen exhibiting many emotions who becomes well-known by the reader. C) The character who remains the same throughout the course of the story. D) A character who exhibits few emotions and is not well-known by the reader. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The character who remains the same throughout the course of the story. 8. Why is a "stairway" particularly an appropriate metaphor to describe the wisdom of the mother who is trying to impart to her son? A) Stairways are almost always dirty and rough. B) Stairways are often found in expensive houses. C) One has to clean and wax a stairway to make it look good. D) Stairway takes steady persistence to climb and it can go up and down. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stairway takes steady persistence to climb and it can go up and down. 9. When parts of a sentence are the same or flipped A) Parallelism. B) Alliteration. C) Adage. D) Climax. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parallelism. 10. Which of the following show the elements of plot in order? A) Climax, rising action, exposition, falling action, resolution. B) Exposition, climax, rising action, falling action, resolution. C) Exposition, initiating event, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution. D) Resolution, rising action, climax, falling action, exposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exposition, initiating event, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution. 11. ..... is a comparison between 2 things WITHOUT using "like" or "as", rather making one thing become something very different. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 12. Which literary device is used here?- "I'm so tired that I could sleep for a week." A) Personification. B) Alliteration. C) Hyperbole. D) Antimetabole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 13. Why did Rudy Steiner put charcoal on his face? A) He wanted to hide from his parents. B) He idolized Jesse Owens. C) He liked Liesel. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He idolized Jesse Owens. 14. Twilight Zone episodes often include aliens. A) Foreshadowing. B) Symbolism. C) Motif. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Motif. 15. The use of MARTEMINDOMITUM to meanINGENTEM PUGNAM illustratesusing the poetic figure: A) Metonymy. B) Zeugma. C) Oxymoron. D) Synchesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metonymy. 16. Traveling from Pennsylvania to Florida in January in order to avoid the cold weather but finding below-freezing temperatures once you arrived in Florida would be an example of: A) Dramatic irony. B) Good luck. C) Situational irony. D) Motion sickness. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Situational irony. 17. Short stories should employ creative language choices to engage the reader's interest. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 18. He said the flowers were waving hello A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Idiom. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 19. Which words rhyme? A) Walk/ talk. B) Play/ lie. C) After/ before. D) Call/ mail. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Walk/ talk. 20. When the author makes you think Xavier is the Hyde when it is actually Tyler is an example of a A) Jargon. B) Spam. C) Red Herring. D) A character who should know better. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Red Herring. ← 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