This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 158 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 158 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines or a poem or verse A) Dialect. B) Allusion. C) Irony. D) Rhyme Scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme Scheme. 2. Natural laws of human development as they relate to environment. A) Anthropoid. B) Anthropology. C) Anthropometer. D) Anthroponomy. E) Anthropopathic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anthroponomy. 3. What is this an example of?The storm clouds began to cry. A) Idiom. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 4. The Center for Disease Control advises everyone to get a flu vaccination. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 5. Which literary device is used in the sentence 'The wind whistled in the air.'? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 6. This is an extended work in prose, either fictitious or partly so, dealing with character, action, thought, etc, especially in the form of a story A) Novice. B) Novel. C) Noun. D) Monologue. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Novel. 7. Is Flashback a Literary device? A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 8. Which literary device compares two different things using the words 'like' or 'as'? A) Paradox. B) Irony. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 9. "The old charts call it 'Ship-Trap Island, "' Whitney replied. "A suggestive name, isn't it? Sailors have a curious dread of the place. I don't know why. Some superstition ..... " A) Allusion. B) Imagery. C) Metaphor. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Foreshadowing. 10. "The children pressed to each other like so many roses ..... " A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Imagery. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 11. It is going to take a zillion years to get through medical school. What is this? A) Simile. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 12. An extreme exaggeration within literature to express importance. A) Irony. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 13. A reference to a literary work to something famous ..... A) Flashback. B) Allusion. C) Hyperbole. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 14. "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" "My love is a red, red rose" A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Simile. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 15. Break a leg is what kind of literary device? A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Idiom. D) Dramatic irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Idiom. 16. When an author in their own work refers to an event in another work, this is called a(n) ..... A) Allusion. B) Mosaic. C) Mimesis. D) Citation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 17. This is an example of which literary device? We only said goodbye with wordsI died a hundred times A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 18. I was so thirsty that I could drink a thousand juice boxes! A) Foreshadowing. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 19. It is the repetition of words, phrases, or clauses at the beginning of two or more clauses or sentences in a row. A) Repetition. B) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anaphora. 20. A story set within a story, narrative, or movie, told by a main or supporting character; the character starts telling a story, to other characters, or physically writes it down, thus revealing the details to the audience A) Allusion. B) Frame tale. C) Personification. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Frame tale. ← 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