This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 169 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 169 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In "The Wanderer, " the phrase grave's embrace in the line: "one a grieving earl Sadly gave to the grave's embrace" is an example of which structural element typical of Anglo-Saxon lyrics? A) Cutting. B) Assonance. C) Theory. D) Elegy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theory. 2. What literary device is used below:"He was as patient as a finish line." A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Allusion. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 3. What does denotative mean? A) Comparing two UNLIKE things using "like" or "as". B) Dictionary definition. C) Secondary meanings with positive or negative associations with the word. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dictionary definition. 4. "When water is heated, the molecules move quickly, thus, causing the water to boil." This is an example of which text structure type? A) Problem & solution. B) Compare & contrast. C) Cause & effect. D) Sequence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cause & effect. 5. A character with many different personality traits A) Round character. B) Flat character. C) Static character. D) Dynamic character. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Round character. 6. The narrator's position in the story A) Point of view. B) First person. C) Second person. D) Third person. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Point of view. 7. The attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience conveyed through word choice and the style of the writing A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Theme. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 8. Which of the following is NOT a similar feature of plays AND novels? A) Plot. B) Characterisation. C) Stage directions. D) Literary devices. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stage directions. 9. The dog was a guilty thief. A) Idiom. B) Imagery. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 10. What is the Repetition? A) It repeats the same words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer and more memorable. B) It could be a word, a phrase, or a full sentence, or a poetical line repeated to emphasize its significance in the entire text. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It repeats the same words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer and more memorable. 11. The road was a black ribbon winding through the trees. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. E) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 12. A character who contrasts with another character in order to highlight their differences. A) Dynamic character. B) Static character. C) Foil character . D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Foil character . 13. Aphorism A) A story which begins and ends at the same place. B) A brief statement expressing some truth as shown in a story; it can be a moral, or proverb, or maxim. C) Exaggeration or distortion of a physical trait or behavior, to make a character appear comic or ridiculous. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A brief statement expressing some truth as shown in a story; it can be a moral, or proverb, or maxim. 14. Which is an example of a Flashback? A) When Anwar was about to play in the final, he remembered of what he did last year. He remembered how he scored 3 goals and won the tournament for the team. He hoped that will happen again. B) While Jeff was playing Fortnite on the PS4, he realised that he should get up and go do his homework. C) On friday, Jaafar went to the chalet. He had lots of fun there and he hoped that because of the heavy rain, there would be no school. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) When Anwar was about to play in the final, he remembered of what he did last year. He remembered how he scored 3 goals and won the tournament for the team. He hoped that will happen again. 15. What is the regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem? A) THE FATHER. B) CDC. C) ABBA. D) AABB. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) THE FATHER. 16. Identify the literary device in the following passage: "Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood" (King 2). A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 17. Sequence of events in a story is ..... A) Conflict. B) Plot. C) Pun. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plot. 18. This type of writing considers similarities and differences. A) Description. B) Compare & contrast. C) Chronological order. D) Cause & effect. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Compare & contrast. 19. Definition-the person telling the story, and it determines the point of view that the audience will experience. Every work of fiction has one! The ..... can take many forms-it may be a character inside the story (like the protagonist) telling it from his own point of view. It may be a completely neutral observer or witness sharing what he sees and experiences. It may be someone who is outside the story but has access to a character's or characters' thoughts and feelings. Or, it may be an all-knowing presence who knows everything about the whole story, its setting, its characters, and even all of its history. A) First person point of view. B) Second person point of view. C) Third person limited point of view. D) Third person omniscient point of view. E) Narrator. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Narrator. 20. The highest point of tension or drama in a narratives' plot. A) Rising Action. B) Plot. C) Exposition. D) Climax. 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