This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 180 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 180 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. It is giving human qualities to inanimate things or animals. A) Peopling. B) Humanism. C) Mankind. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 2. Which literary device is one idea stretched over more than one line of poetry? A) Allusion. B) Enjambment. C) Hyperbole. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Enjambment. 3. The repetition of sounds that are placed close together A) Epic simile. B) Epic hero. C) Alliteration. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 4. Tone is the attitude the author adopts with regards to a specific topic, character, etc. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 5. True or False-Rhyme scheme is part of the structure of a poem A) Ture. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ture. 6. Person, place, thing, or event that stands for something beyond itself A) Foreshadowing. B) Metaphor. C) Irony. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foreshadowing. 7. Without her glasses on, Judy felt as blind as a ..... A) Elephant. B) Bat. C) Feather. D) Bee. E) Owl. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bat. 8. What is this an example of? "An oak tree and a rosebush grew, Young and green together, Talking the talk of growing things ..... Wind and water and weather." A) Stanza. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 9. Which point of view uses a narrator or speaker outside of the text and the pronouns 'he', 'she', and 'they'? A) Omniscient Third-Person. B) Third Person. C) Second Person. D) First Person. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Third Person. 10. What is giving human characteristics to something which is not human? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 11. The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices. A) Fable. B) Oxymoron. C) Satire. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Satire. 12. Which of the following details provides the best hint about the landlady's secret? A) The front of the building is rather shabby. B) The downstairs window is brightly lit. C) The landlady explains that she stuffs all her dead pets. D) The landlady serves tea and cookies to Billy before he goes up to his room. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The landlady explains that she stuffs all her dead pets. 13. An exaggeration in literature is known as A) Assonance. B) A literary exaggeration. C) Meiosis. D) A hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A hyperbole. 14. "The night was as dark as coal." This sentence is an example of: A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Diction. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 15. The water well is as dry as a bone is an example of a(n) ..... A) Alliteration. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 16. A word or phrase that is used to describe something that does not literally apply to it A) Onomatopoeia. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 17. Comparing two or more subjects without using "like" or "as" A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Imagery. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 18. The bee buzzed in my ear A) Idiom. B) Simile. C) Onomatopoeia. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 19. The trees danced in the wind. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 20. The use of words to affect a meaning other than the usual or literal meaning of those words is ..... A) A literary device. B) Figurative language. C) Symbol. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Figurative language. ← 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