This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 127 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 127 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A narrative either in verse or prose, in which characters, action, and sometimes setting represent abstract concepts apart from the literal meaning of the story A) Euphemism. B) Imagery. C) Pun. D) Allegory. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allegory. 2. What is the direct or indirect description of a character? A) Personification. B) Characterization. C) Allusion. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Characterization. 3. EXAMPLE:The scent of freshly baked apple pie wafted through the air, filling the kitchen with a warm and comforting aroma. A) Simile. B) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 4. The conclusion of the story's plot. A) Rising Action. B) Falling Action. C) Exposition. D) Resolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Resolution. 5. Is a word that sounds like the noise it describes A) Onomatopoeia. B) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 6. Imagery that appeals to the reader's sense of hearing. A) Tactile Imagery. B) Auditory Imagery. C) Gustatory Imagery. D) Visual Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Auditory Imagery. 7. Circular Story A) A narrative or picture story enclosed within another story, where both stories are of equal interest. B) A story which begins and ends at the same place, usually following a character through different adventures or events; although the character arrives back where he/she starts. C) Information from the text that supports, or proves, an inference or fact. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A story which begins and ends at the same place, usually following a character through different adventures or events; although the character arrives back where he/she starts. 8. The attitude a writer takes toward a subject or a character:humorous, sarcastic, etc. A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Theme. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 9. Repetition of internal vowel sounds in neighboring words A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assonance. 10. What does the word "Theme" mean? A) The wrong idea about something. B) The main idea that is repeated in a text. C) One way to spell a word. D) Two many meanings for one person. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The main idea that is repeated in a text. 11. What literary device is used?"The splat of bugs was heard against the windshield as we zoomed by the swamp." A) Pun. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Allusion. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 12. "Only the daisy trees were serene ..... they ignored the men and continued to rock the diamondbacks that slept in their arms. It took the river to persuade them that indeed the world was altered." A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 13. Love, loving A) Graph/o. B) Klept/o. C) Mania. D) Phil/e. E) All. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Phil/e. 14. What is tone shown through? A) Dialogue. B) Description. C) Dialogue and description. D) The author's voice. E) A book tour. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dialogue and description. 15. What gives a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance A) Pun. B) Irony. C) Allusion. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 16. Identify the literary device in the following passage:(Scroll Down) "Do you realize that in no other country in the world with democratic tendencies is suffrage so completely denied as in a considerable number of our own states? There are thirteen black states where no suffrage for women exists, and fourteen others where suffrage for women is more limited than in many foreign countries. Do you realize that when you ask women to take their cause to state referendum you compel them to do this:that you drive women of education, refinement, achievement, to beg men who cannot read for their political freedom? Do you realize that such anomalies as a college president asking her janitor to give her a vote are overstraining the patience and driving women to desperation? Do you realize that women in increasing numbers indignantly resent the long delay in their enfranchisement?" (Catt 3). A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Anaphora. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anaphora. 17. This football team is a sinking ship. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. E) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 18. A nice way to say something unpleasant A) Euphemism. B) Simile. C) Nuance. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Euphemism. 19. When the author explicitly or directly states what the character is like ..... tells you hair color, age, height, personality type, etc A) Direct characterization. B) Indirect characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Direct characterization. 20. As flat as A) A kettle. B) A pancake. C) A loaf. D) Face. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A pancake. ← 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