This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 176 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 176 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. I'll succumb to something that I summon soon, A solar shock of sudden sun or moon To separate semesters, I'm the same as school So search the sections, get to stepping fool A) Onomatopoeia. B) Unconnected. C) Anaphora. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 2. If you reopen that discussion, you will just be reopening "Pandora's Box!" This is: A) Analogy. B) Allusion. C) Discussion. D) Pragmatism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 3. The baby splish-splashes in the water. A) 2nd person point of view. B) Allusion. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 4. This is an example of what kind of literary device:"Whoa! Hold your horses." A) Idiom. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 5. "Things gotta get better, I figured. They couldn't get worse. I was wrong." is an example of ..... A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Foreshadowing. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Foreshadowing. 6. "The streetlight was my security guard. " A) Example of metaphor. B) Example of hyperbole. C) Imagery using sight. D) Imagery using touch. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Example of metaphor. 7. What is the poetic device use in the word "he" in "like a thunderbolt he falls" in the poem 'The Eagle' A) Symbol. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 8. The repetition of the same beginning sound in 2 or more words A) Imagery. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. E) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 9. Which poem as a simple syllable pattern to set a rhythm? A) Haiku. B) Limerick. C) Ballad. D) Free Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ballad. 10. A stop or a pause in a line of poetry-usually caused by punctuation. A) Cutting. B) Enjambment. C) Stanza. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cutting. 11. Eerie elephants elevated their feet during their pedicure. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of the above. 12. Uses words or phrases with similar structure to create symmetry and balance in writing. A) Parallelism. B) Rhetorical devices. C) Analogy. D) Naming. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parallelism. 13. An expression with a figurative or metaphorical meaning that differs from its literal meaning A) Symbol. B) Analogy. C) Symbolism. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Idiom. 14. What story is this from? "You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing." A) The Tell Tale Heart. B) The Lady or the Tiger. C) The Lottery. D) The Bet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Tell Tale Heart. 15. Which definition is correct for the following term:Situational Irony A) When the audience knows something that the characters don't. B) When someone says something but means the opposite. C) A contrast between what we think will happen versus what actually happens. D) A comparison of two unlike things that simply states that one thing is another. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A contrast between what we think will happen versus what actually happens. 16. The yellow and orange leaves almost twinkled in the wind as the smell of fall drifted easily down the dry dirt trail. A) Foreshadowing. B) Imagery. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 17. To make a situation seem less important or less severe A) Tone. B) Irony. C) Sarcasm. D) Understatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Understatement. 18. The methods the author uses to present the personality of a character A) Theme. B) Characterization. C) Alliteration. D) Dialect. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Characterization. 19. Character that displays multiple character traits; complex character; a character that the audience knows a lot about; relatable character A) Flat character. B) Round character. C) Static character. D) Dynamic character. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Round character. 20. A figure of speech in which an idea or thing is given human attributes and/or feelings or is spoken of as if it were human. A) Symbolism. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. ← 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