This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 122 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 122 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The use of words that imitate the sound A) Assonance. B) Pun. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 2. A character with only one definable trait A) Round character. B) Flat character. C) Static character. D) Dynamic character. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flat character. 3. You don't have to be Albert Einstein to understand poetry. A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Allusion. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 4. In Language Arts class, what do we mean by text? A) A message you receive on your cell phone. B) Another word for any written material, such as an article, poem, or story. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Another word for any written material, such as an article, poem, or story. 5. The point of greatest suspense or interest in a story A) Exposition. B) Rising action. C) Climax. D) Resolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Climax. 6. Define Falling Action: A) The action after the climax; leads to the resolution. B) Building suspense; conflict develops. C) End of the central conflict. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The action after the climax; leads to the resolution. 7. When Ruth Jones's alarm clock woke her at seven o'clock that morning, she had no idea that today would be the longest day of her life. What is this an example of? A) Flashback. B) Foreshadowing. C) Allusion. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foreshadowing. 8. "The pirate smelled like a garbage can, " is an example of ..... A) Hyperbole. B) Irony. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 9. Why would Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones want to help this boy? A) She was a nice person and helped everyone. B) She thought Roger was homeless. C) She was young once and had been in similar situations as Roger. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She was young once and had been in similar situations as Roger. 10. The repetition of vowels sounds in a word:Holy Mole A) Consonance. B) Assonance. C) Refrain. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 11. In a creative writing class, Abigail wrote the following sentence:'The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas'. Grace and Maya are discussing about it. According to them, what literary device did Abigail use in her sentence? A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 12. The guides made sure to focus when they repeated the head count. A) Allusion. B) Metonymy. C) Paradox. D) Synecdoche. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Synecdoche. 13. The message the author is trying to express within a story A) Resolution. B) Falling action. C) Theme. D) Point of view. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theme. 14. Who was Narcissus A) A man who loved himself and stared at his own reflection. B) A man who hated other people and plotted revenge. C) A man who fell in love but destroyed the love with jealousy. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A man who loved himself and stared at his own reflection. 15. A reference, typically brief, to a person, place, thing, event, or other literary work with which the reader is presumably familiar. A) Archetype. B) Euphemism. C) Symbolism. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Archetype. 16. Now I'm the model of a modern major general, /the venerated Virginian veteran whose men are all lining up A) End rhyme. B) Allusion. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 17. Which literary device is the example referring to? If a character mentions offhandedly that bad things always happen to them in autumn, then the observant reader will be alert when the leaves in the story begin to fall. A) Foreshadowing. B) Paradox. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foreshadowing. 18. Giving humanlike qualities to nonhuman things A) Simile. B) Allusion. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 19. "She had a smile like the sun" What literary device can you spot here? A) Simile. B) Irony. C) Metaphor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 20. A part of something represents the whole, or the whole represents the part A) Allusion. B) Enjambment. C) Synecdoche. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Synecdoche. ← 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