This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 166 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 166 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In the song "Baby" by Justin Bieber, the part that goes:"And I was like baby, baby, baby ohLike baby, baby, baby noLike baby, baby, baby ohI thought you'd always be mine, mine, "repeats multiple times throughout the song. This is an example of ..... A) Simile. B) Dialogue. C) Personification. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Refrain. 2. "He stood looking up at the ventilator grille in the hall and suddenly remembered that something lay hidden behind the grille, something that seemed to peer down at him now." A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Irony. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 3. What is the imaginary voice a poet uses when writing a poem? A) The character who tells the poem. B) The setting of the poem. C) The theme of the poem. D) The plot of the poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The character who tells the poem. 4. I remember a scary time in my life. It was when I had to move schools in fifth grade. A) Foreshadowing. B) Flashback. C) Puns. D) Plot Structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flashback. 5. Something which represents something else besides its literal meaning A) Allusion. B) Symbol. C) Connotation. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Symbol. 6. "The night was black as ever, but bright stars lit up the sky in beautiful and varied constellations which were sprinkled across the astronomical landscape." A) Imagery using sight. B) Example of metaphor. C) Imagery using sound. D) Example of hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery using sight. 7. I am so tired I could sleep forever. A) Hyperbole. B) Irony. C) Onomatopoeia. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 8. A branch of drama that treats in a serious and dignified style the sorrowful or terrible events encountered or caused by a heroic individual. A) Comedy. B) Tragedy. C) Play. D) Theater. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tragedy. 9. When the story tells us the way a character is (their age, appearance) A) Indirect Characterization. B) Direct Characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Direct Characterization. 10. The overall feeling, or atmosphere, of a text often created by the author's use of imagery and word choice is called ..... A) Mood. B) Euphemism. C) Tone. D) Repitition. E) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mood. 11. A recipe or instruction manual would best represent which text structure type? A) Problem & solution. B) Compare & contrast. C) Cause & effect. D) Sequence. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sequence. 12. A person says one thing and means another; closely related to sarcasm A) Verbal irony. B) Situational irony. C) Allusion. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Verbal irony. 13. The motto of the state ofWyoming is "Cedant armatogae." In this phrase TOGAE isan example of the rhetorical figure: A) Simile. B) Metonymy. C) Hyperbole. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metonymy. 14. I had heard the same tone a million times. A) Irony. B) Hyperbole. C) Suspense. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 15. An extravagant exaggeration A) HYPERBOLE. B) SIMILE. C) PERSONIFICATION. D) METAPHOR. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) HYPERBOLE. 16. An imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one. A) Dystopia. B) Utopia. C) Theme. D) Foreshadow. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dystopia. 17. Christy didn't like to spend money. She was no Scrooge, but she seldom purchased anything except the bare necessities. A) Allusion. B) Simile. C) Imagery. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 18. A fire station burns down. A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. C) Assonance. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Irony. 19. A reference to a well-known person, place, or event A) Allusion. B) Allegory. C) Theme. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 20. Which literary device is used in the sentence 'Don't be such a Scrooge!'? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. ← 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