This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 183 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 183 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "Hear the mellow wedding bells ..... " A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Connotation. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 2. What is this an example of? Her golden hair blew in the swirling wind and I could smell her sweet perfume in the air. A) Refrain. B) Personification. C) Imagery. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 3. What literary device is this:the same consonant sound appears again and again in the same line in different parts of the words (example:look at the 'S' sound in this line:The first and last brush sweeps fast and best)? A) Alliteration. B) Consonance. C) Hyperbole. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Consonance. 4. Choose the best theme for this poem:Ambition Over Adversity by Tupac Shakur Take one's adversity Learn from their misfortune Learn from their pain Believe in something Believe in yourself Turn adversity into ambition Now blossom into wealth A) Learn from mistakes and turn them into success. B) Keep your eye on the prize. C) Never help people do bad things. D) Learn to share. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Learn from mistakes and turn them into success. 5. Author's Purpose is the author's reason or desired outcome for writing a text A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 6. Words that sound like what they are meant to depict (i.e. bam, zip, buzz) are called ..... A) Onomatopoeia. B) Pathetic fallacy. C) Exposition. D) A simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 7. Where the true meaning behind a statement is intentionally quite the opposite of its literal meaning. A) Pun. B) Hyperbole. C) Irony. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Irony. 8. Which is an example of Foreshadowing? A) Before the match started, Anwar remembered how he scored 3 goals last time and won the game for the team. B) The evening was still. Suddenly a cool breeze started blowing and made a windy night. C) When I entered English class, I realised that I forgot my laptop in my locker. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The evening was still. Suddenly a cool breeze started blowing and made a windy night. 9. What is the main difference between simile and metaphor? A) Simile uses like or as, while metaphor does not. B) Simile compares similar things, while metaphor compares different things. C) Simile gives human qualities to inanimate objects, while metaphor does not. D) Simile repeats initial consonant sounds, while metaphor does not. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile uses like or as, while metaphor does not. 10. What literary device is present below? "With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right ..... "-Abraham Lincoln A) Anaphora. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anaphora. 11. Lazarus's line " Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" is an example of A) Rhyme. B) Alliteration. C) Imagery. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 12. VoiceIn the literary sense, voice can be used to refer to the nature of the voice projected in a text by an author (for example, 'authorial voice' in a literary text or 'expert voice' in an exposition). A) Author. B) Text. C) Context. D) Audience. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Author. 13. " ..... A wave picked her up and pinned her against another rock." is an example of ..... A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 14. BONUS QUESTION:"I have butterflies in my stomach." This is an example of a A) Oxymoron. B) Pun. C) Idiom. D) Understatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Idiom. 15. According to Friar Laurence (Act 2, scene 6) pleasure is as unreal as a spiderweb. The comparison between pleasure and the spiderweb is an example of: A) Alliteration. B) Chorus. C) Symbolism. D) Iambic pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Iambic pentameter. 16. Meaning the narrator can see and know everything within the story A) First person POV. B) Third person omniscient POV. C) Third person limited POV. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Third person omniscient POV. 17. Giving human qualities to inanimate objects, ideas, or animals. A) Sarcasm. B) Analogy. C) Personification. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 18. The rest of the world was black and white. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Repetition. E) Alliteration . Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 19. "Into the silent sea" is an example of A) Alliteration. B) Anagram. C) Assonance. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 20. Person versus Person: A) A problem between characters. B) A problem within a character's own mind. C) A problem between a character and society, school, the law, or some tradition. D) A problem between a character and some element of nature-a blizzard, a hurricane, a mountain climb, etc. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A problem between characters. ← 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