This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 142 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 142 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Identify the literary device in the sentence:'His words cut deeper than a knife.' A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 2. Author's attitude or feeling about what he or she is writing about A) Metaphor. B) Central Idea. C) Tone. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tone. 3. Ms. Leibforth's first name is ..... A) Megan. B) Meghan. C) Megan. D) Meaghan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Meghan. 4. A figure of speech and literary device that creates a heightened effect through deliberate exaggeration. A) Hyperbole. B) Overstatement. C) Foil. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 5. In Tangled, Rapunzel looks out the window and dreams of seeing the floating lanterns. These lanterns come to represent freedom to her. What is this an example of? A) Symbol. B) Archetype. C) Motif. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Symbol. 6. ..... is an idea or feeling represented by an object. A) Metaphor. B) Pictures. C) Symbolism. D) Similes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbolism. 7. " The sun was like a large ball of butter", is an example of what literary device A) Metaphor. B) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 8. A rabbit's foot and a four leaf clover are ..... for good luck. A) Metaphors. B) Similes. C) Allegories. D) Symbols. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbols. 9. Identify the figure of speech in the following sentence:That person runs like a road-runner. A) Simile. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 10. His hands were as cold as ice. This means: A) His hands were sweaty. B) His hands were extremely cold. C) His hands were wet. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) His hands were extremely cold. 11. The Titanic was promoted as 100% unsinkable. A) Irony. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Simile. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irony. 12. Shows events from before the present time of the story A) Flashback. B) Foreshadowing. C) Metaphor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Flashback. 13. Defining relative clauses A) Give essential information. B) Ask questions. C) Give additional information. D) Haven't got a relative pronoun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Give essential information. 14. What punctuation mark is used when words are omitted from words? A) Alliteration. B) Asterisk. C) Apostrophe. D) Comma. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Apostrophe. 15. What's the definition for metaphor? A) The giving of human qualities to an animal, object or abstract idea. B) A comparison between two unlike things, usually with the words 'like' or 'as'. C) A figure of speech that implies a comparison between two relatively unlikely things. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A figure of speech that implies a comparison between two relatively unlikely things. 16. Uses figures of speech to be more effective, persuasive, and impactful A) Characterization. B) Figurative language. C) Foreshadowing. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Figurative language. 17. This literary device compares two things, using the words as/like. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 18. Definition-a figure of speech, usually one or two words, in which seemingly contradictory terms appear side by side. This contradiction is also known as a paradox. Example-The blob fish is pretty ugly. A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Onomatopoeia. E) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Oxymoron. 19. "The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor ..... " This is an example of A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 20. Luella wants Roger..... A) To work hard. B) To be her son. C) To be a moral person. D) Go home. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To be a moral person. ← 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