This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 191 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 191 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A lesson learned from a story: A) Motif. B) Perspective. C) Theme. D) Moral. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Moral. 2. What is a comparison between two unlike things using the words "like" or "as" ? A) Simile. B) Enjambment. C) Personification. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 3. A repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyme A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Epiphora. D) Anagram. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 4. The voice that tells a story A) Author. B) Narrator. C) Speaker. D) Main character. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Narrator. 5. A problem faced by the main character. A) Climax. B) Conflict. C) Exposition. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Conflict. 6. The masks that the boys paint onto their faces symbolize all of the following except A) The savagery of the boys. B) The disguise that shows that they have become "someone else" with different values and behavior norms. C) A way to hide from one's conscience. D) The natural goodness of man. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The natural goodness of man. 7. Choose the vocab word that best fits the sentence:The children who got lost in the corn maze ..... in the darkness while looking for their exit. A) Abashed. B) Confounded. C) Floundered. D) Dejected. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Floundered. 8. "My plants are begging for water."This is an example of ..... A) Dialogue. B) Setting. C) Personification. D) Perspective. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 9. True or False:Fable is the use of animals to teach humanity a lesson. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 10. 'Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean? To me it means texture. This book has pores.' (p. 79) A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 11. This is a type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics. A) Hyperbole. B) Allusion. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 12. Conjoined contradictory terms A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oxymoron. 13. After Jason accidentally bumped into Ace in the hallway between class periods, Ace flashed his switchblade and told him that paybacks are nasty. A) Foreshadow. B) Flashback. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foreshadow. 14. "The wind whispered through the trees" demonstrates which sound device? A) Alliteration. B) Hyperbole. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 15. Define:Pun A) A play on words, often humorous, that uses words that have similar or identical sounds but very different meanings. B) A figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side (ex. jumbo shrimp, act naturally, alone together, found missing). C) A figure of speech in which objects or nonhuman organisms are given human characteristics (Trees were dancing in the wind. My computer hates me.). D) A common expression understood figuratively, as the literal definition makes no sense. E) The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning; a statement or situation where the meaning is contradicted by the appearance or presentation of the idea. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A play on words, often humorous, that uses words that have similar or identical sounds but very different meanings. 16. What is the definition of the MOOD of a story? A) Author's attitude toward a subject. B) The atmosphere of the story. C) The central idea of the story. D) Sensory details. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The atmosphere of the story. 17. I promise that your smile ain't gon' never leave A) Alliteration. B) Colloquialism. C) Simile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Colloquialism. 18. "Life is a highway, and I want to ride it all night long." This is an example of ..... A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 19. EXTRA CREDIT:gustatory imagery invokes the use of which of the following senses? A) Hearing. B) Taste. C) Touch. D) Smell. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Taste. 20. Sailor, ship A) Geo. B) Graph. C) Meter. D) Bull. E) Nom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bull. ← 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