This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 133 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 133 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A direct comparison without using "like" or "as" A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 2. What is the high point/main event of the story known as? A) Rising Action. B) Climax. C) Exposition. D) Setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Climax. 3. What is a figure of speech that uses 'like' or 'as' to compare two unlike ideas? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 4. "Her hair is like gold" and "as strong as an ox" are examples of: A) Personification. B) Symbolism. C) Metaphors. D) Similes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Similes. 5. This device is a figure of speech that compares two things without using "like" or "as": A) Metaphor. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Simile. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 6. Is the character or force that blocks the main character. Is often, but not always the villain of the story. A) Antagonist. B) Protagonist. C) Archetype. D) Stock character. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antagonist. 7. Figure of speech, in which a non human is given human characteristics A) Rising action. B) Personification. C) Foreshadowing. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 8. What is the major idea of a story or poem called? A) Theme. B) Tone. C) Main Idea. D) Conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme. 9. Her eyes were as round as oranges. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 10. Mary pulled back the curtains and saw some crows sitting in the tree. A) Simile. B) Foreshadowing. C) Oxymoron. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foreshadowing. 11. Main character put against a natural phenomenon. A) Person v. person. B) Person v. self. C) Person v. nature. D) Person v. society. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Person v. nature. 12. How is theme defined? A) The perspective from which a writer tells a story. B) The central message or insight into life from the author. C) Gives background about setting and/or characters. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The central message or insight into life from the author. 13. Words are used to suggest the opposite of what is meant. A) Dramatic irony. B) Situational irony. C) Verbal irony. D) Ironic irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Verbal irony. 14. Choose the term that BEST matches the definition. the turning point or high point of a story A) Climax. B) Point of view. C) Plot. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Climax. 15. "I couldn't wait to go to the carnival, smell the hot dogs, taste the cotton candy, and feel the exhilaration of riding the Ferris Wheel!" What tone you can get of the sentence? The speaker is ..... A) Patient. B) Excited. C) Furious. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Excited. 16. When a character battles a rule, law, or custom A) Man vs. Man. B) Man vs. Nature. C) Man vs. Society. D) Man vs. Himself. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Man vs. Society. 17. Which literary device is being used in the following sentence:'The isolated, gruesome blood-filled lair lay right below the brightly decorated, bustling town.'? A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. C) Hyperbole. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Juxtaposition. 18. POW! Bang! Buzzzzzz..... A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 19. Which of these is not related to theme? A) A life lesson that the character learns. B) The moral of the story. C) How a character is feeling. D) The message of the story. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) How a character is feeling. 20. What literary device is illustrated below:A child runs away from someone throwing a water balloon at him and falls into the pool. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Irony. ← 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