This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 149 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 149 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The action following the climax, a cool down A) Exposition. B) Falling action. C) Resolution. D) Rising action. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Falling action. 2. Which of the following is an example of a symbol? A) The American Flag representing freedom. B) The color green meaning "go". C) An apple representing education. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 3. The dog's bed is a marshmallow, it looks so comfortable. A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 4. What is this term?a part standing for or representing the whole A) Synecdoche. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Synecdoche. 5. Is this alliteration?The cobra caused chaos in the theatre. A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 6. The most common type of meter is A) Iambic pentameter. B) Trochaic pentameter. C) Anapestic tetrameter. D) Dactylic dimeter. E) Spondais tetrameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Iambic pentameter. 7. "The trees were punching at the sky as the wind shook them wildly" A) Onomatopoeia. B) Irony. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 8. Movement imagery A) Tactile. B) Olfactory. C) Kinetic. D) Thermal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kinetic. 9. It's those we hate the most that need love the most. A) Hyperbole. B) Understatement. C) Paradox. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Paradox. 10. Choose a synonym for hint, mention, reference. A) Similarly. B) Allusion. C) Irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 11. The comparison of two unlike things using the words "like" or "as" is referred to as a? A) Metaphor. B) Flashback. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 12. The feeling or idea that a word has. (Not necessarily the dictionary definition.) A) Foreshadowing. B) Allusion. C) Connotation. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Connotation. 13. Events that took place at an earlier time A) Foreshadowing. B) Flashback. C) Alliteration. D) Prediction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flashback. 14. "Her hair is as black as the night sky" is an example of ..... A) Simile. B) Repetition. C) Analogy. D) Allusion. E) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 15. What is the literary device where two words are opposing and contradictory? A) Irony. B) Juxtaposition. C) Consonance. D) Oxymoron . Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oxymoron . 16. A reference to something known from literature, history, religion, myth, politics, or other field A) Allusion. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 17. Which word means the repetition of two or more of the same vowel sounds in a word or the repetition of two or more of the same consonant sounds in a word? A) Onomatopoeia. B) Assonance. C) Alliteration. D) Metaphor. E) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 18. Which of these is onomatopoeia? A) She angrily shouted. B) My stomach growled loudly. C) He was bursting with excitement. D) She ran as fast as she could. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) My stomach growled loudly. 19. An elegy is a poem of ..... A) Happiness. B) Annoyance. C) Sorrow. D) Excitement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sorrow. 20. The part of the story when the conflict lessens. A) Characterization. B) Falling action. C) Rising action. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Falling action. ← 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