This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 178 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 178 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What literary device is used in the sentence:'She is the sunshine of my life'? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 2. What literary device is used in the sentence:'The world is a stage'? A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 3. I have five favorite foods. A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Oxymoron. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 4. What is the definition of Falling Action? A) Events that happen after the climax; the aftermath. B) Is a figure of speech that is used to make a comparison between two things that aren't alike but do have something in common. C) A series of events in a story that build toward the climax creating suspense and interest. D) The beginning of a story where it introduces background information, settings, events, and characters to help the reader progress through the novel. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Events that happen after the climax; the aftermath. 5. The attitude of the author/narrator toward the subject, ideas, themes or characters A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Theme. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 6. How is Gothic literature characterized? A) Humorous characters, futuristic settings, and parody. B) Idealized settings, feminist characters, and a focus on stream of consciousness. C) Inspirational plots, reasonable characters, and ordinary situations. D) Grotesque characters, strange situations, and violent events. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Grotesque characters, strange situations, and violent events. 7. What is 1st person point of view? A) The narrator is a character in the story; uses the pronouns I, me, my to refer to the main character. B) The main character in a story-usually the "good guy". C) The person or force acting against the main character; tries to stop the main character from getting what they want. D) The narrator is NOT involved in the story; uses the pronouns he, she, they to refer to the main character. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The narrator is a character in the story; uses the pronouns I, me, my to refer to the main character. 8. The main or central character. A) Antagonist. B) Protagonist. C) Flat characters. D) Round characters. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Protagonist. 9. Literary Irony is ..... A) A statement used to express an opposite meaning. B) A statement that seems illogical or self-contradictory. C) A combination of 2 words that, together, express a contradictory meaning. D) A series of words that all start with the same sound. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A statement used to express an opposite meaning. 10. The road was tight and winding as a coiled snake. What literary device has been used? A) Assonance. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 11. Jaylene, Jericho, and Amber are in a book club. They start discussing the role of irony in shaping a character's personality in their current book. What is your opinion on this? A) Irony has no role in character development. B) Irony can highlight a character's traits or flaws, adding depth to their personality. C) Irony is used to make the character's dialogue more humorous. D) Irony is used to make the character more predictable. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irony can highlight a character's traits or flaws, adding depth to their personality. 12. A descriptive name or phrase used to characterize someone or something A) Foreshadowing. B) Epic simile. C) Archetype. D) Epithet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Epithet. 13. A contrast or discrepancy between expectations and reality ..... between what is said and what is really meant, between what is expected and what really happens, or between what appears to be true and what really is true A) Juxtaposition. B) Satire. C) Irony. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Irony. 14. Intense craving, loss of reason A) Graph/o. B) Klept/o. C) Mania. D) Phil/e. E) All. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mania. 15. Funeral:Which literary device does the author use in line 21? A) Personification. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 16. This literary devices compares two objects without using like or as A) Idiom. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 17. What is the opposing force for the main character called? A) Protagonist. B) Foil character. C) Antagonist. D) Static character. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Antagonist. 18. When we want to play with words that may sound similar in pronunciation, but have a different meaning, and are used to create humor A) Pun. B) Hyperbole. C) Irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pun. 19. Mood / atmosphere A) Is a relationship of contrast between what an audience is led to expect during a particular situation within the unfolding of a story's plot and a situation that ends up actually resulting later on. B) In literature, is the manner in which written words might be said (for example, sarcastic, mild, witty, angry). Tone is hard to separate from mood, but in general the tone of a work can gradually shift (perhaps from sarcastic to ironic or from angry to remorseful), while mood describes the feeling of the entire piece. The tone of a work is produced mainly by the writer's diction or choice of words, but stylistic choices concerning syntax, line or sentence length, imagery, and so forth may also contribute. C) The feeling created in the reader in response to a text or section of a text. D) The unifying message portrayed in a text. This is a complete idea (sentence) that tells a truth about humanity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The feeling created in the reader in response to a text or section of a text. 20. The author's overall message to the reader A) Theme. B) Analogy. C) Irony. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme. ← 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