This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 150 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 150 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When the narrative is a character in the story and uses the pronoun "I" A) 1st person. B) 2nd person. C) 3rd person limited. D) 3rd person omniscient. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1st person. 2. Meow, woof, tweet went the barnyard. A) Personification. B) Repetition. C) Alliteration. D) Hyperbole. E) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Onomatopoeia. 3. Dialect A) The style of speaking; the choice of words used. (Formal, informal, slang.). B) When characters are speaking in a story. C) The order of words in a phrase or sentence. D) How a person speaks shown through the writing (Ex:slang, accents, etc.). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) How a person speaks shown through the writing (Ex:slang, accents, etc.). 4. "The sun smiled down on us" is an example of which literary device? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 5. -"Methinks i see thee, now thou art so low, as one dead in the bottom of a tomb" A) Allusion. B) Foreshadowing. C) Oxymoron. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foreshadowing. 6. Which literary device is shown here? 1 hello, not the little girl with the nose2 nor the bell foot nor the black eyes3 nor the long fingers nor the dry mouth4 nor of course the very elegant tongue A) Hyperbole. B) Homeoteleuton. C) Multi-connectors. D) Apostrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Multi-connectors. 7. What is the structure of Problem/Solution in the context of text? A) It is "time order". B) It is when one thing causes another. C) It is when a problem is stated and then a solution is given. D) It is when a main point is given and then supporting details are given. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It is when a problem is stated and then a solution is given. 8. What is the plot of a literary work? A) A person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something. B) A figure of speech in which something is described as if it were something else. C) Vivid description that appeals to a reader's senses to create an image or idea. D) The events that make up a storyline. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The events that make up a storyline. 9. The sound of quiet chit-chat distracted the professor during his lecture. A) F. Naming. B) A. Simile. C) B. Metaphor. D) C. Hyperbole. E) D. Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) F. Naming. 10. Identify the type of conflict:Jasmine's best friends are in an argument and not talking. They both ask her to hangout after school and Jasmine does not know what to do. She does not want to seem like she is taking sides. She is unsure about how to handle this because she wants to remain neutral. A) Man vs. man. B) Man vs. self. C) Man vs. society. D) Man vs. fate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Man vs. self. 11. The part of a story that happened before the present action. The author usually brings these out through character storytelling or through dreams A) Idiom. B) Hyperbole. C) Foreshadow. D) Flashback. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Flashback. 12. Break a leg! A) Hyperbole. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Idiom. 13. Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution A) Plot structure. B) Personification. C) Paradox. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plot structure. 14. Identify the literary device in the phrase:'Sally sells seashells by the seashore.' A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 15. What is a footnote? A) A definition given for a word. It is located at the bottom of the text and noted with a small number beside the word. B) The repetition of initial consonant sounds. C) A small personal story that relates to the bigger point of the text. D) Language not meant to be taken literally. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A definition given for a word. It is located at the bottom of the text and noted with a small number beside the word. 16. What is the role of diction in writing? A) Diction has no role in writing. B) Diction is the arrangement of words in a sentence. C) Diction is the choice and use of words in writing. D) Diction refers to the punctuation used in writing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Diction is the choice and use of words in writing. 17. To a Daughter Leaving Home:Part A:How does the poet use a simile in lines 15-24? A) The poet compares her daughter growing to her being breakable. B) The poet compares her daughter's hair to a handkerchief waving goodbye using the word "like" . C) The poet uses the multiple sounds of the letter P from line 18. D) The poet compares her daughter's life to screaming with laughter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The poet compares her daughter's hair to a handkerchief waving goodbye using the word "like" . 18. WHICH LITERARY DEVICE IS USED IN THIS SENTENCE-IF TWO WITCHES WHERE WATCHING TWO WATCHES, WHICH WITCH WOULD WATCH WHICH WATCH ..... A) SIMILE. B) METAPHOR. C) ALLITERATION. D) PERSONIFICATION. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) ALLITERATION. 19. When something that is not human is given human qualities it is called ..... A) Perosnication. B) Personalization. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 20. Modifies a noun or pronoun. A) Adverb. B) Adjective. C) Conjunction. D) Preposition. 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