This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 199 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 199 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A recurrent element in a literary work A) Allusion. B) Motif. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Motif. 2. The form or a format through which narrators tell their stories. A) Opinion. B) Voice. C) Flashback. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Voice. 3. What is the figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes? A) Imagery. B) Symbolism. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. E) Flashback tagsCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.4. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 4. Now you see me; now you don't A) Rhyme. B) Repetition. C) Foreshadowing. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 5. Comparing two unlike things without using a connecting word such as "like" or "as" is what literary technique? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 6. He is thinner than a toothpick! A) Hyperbole. B) Irony. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 7. "Three soft bird chirps and they call me Ah Wai." A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Repetition. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 8. The tree danced in the wind. A) Personification. B) Characterization. C) Imagery. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 9. Irony (Situational) A) The contrast between what we think should happen and what actually does happen. B) An interruption of the chronological sequence (as of a film or literary work) of an event of earlier occurrence. C) Stating the opposite of what one really means. D) A warning or indication of a future event in the text. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The contrast between what we think should happen and what actually does happen. 10. An author's purpose may be to amuse the reader, persuade the reader, inform the reader, or satirize a condition A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 11. Which of the following is a metaphor? a) The stars twinkled in the night sky. b) The stars are diamonds in the sky. c) The stars are shining brightly. A) The stars are diamonds in the sky. B) The stars are made of cheese. C) The stars are not shining brightly. D) The stars twinkled in the day sky. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The stars are diamonds in the sky. 12. The narrator participates in the story (uses I, me, my, we, us). What is the point of view? A) First person. B) Second person. C) Third person. D) Omniscient. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) First person. 13. Ge Four "I am a runner. That's what I do. That's who I am. Running is all I know, or want, or care about. It was a race around the soccer field in third grade that swept me into a real love of running. Breathing the sweet smell of spring grass. Sailing over dots of blooming clover. Beating all the boys. After that I couldn't stop. I ran everywhere. Raced everyone. I loved the wind across my cheeks, through my hair. Running aired out my soul. It made me feel alive. And now? I'm stuck in this bed, knowing I'll never run again" (6) Van Draanen, Wendelin. The Running Dream. New York:Random House, 2012. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 14. Which word has the more POSITIVE connotation? A) Laid-back. B) Lazy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Laid-back. 15. How does imagery impact a story? A) It tells us what the author was thinking. B) It helps us understand to picture what's happening in a story. C) It helps the reader understand what's happening. D) It helps a story to feel more real. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It helps a story to feel more real. 16. Struggle between opposing forces Ex. Lennie vs. Curley; Lennie vs. George; Candy vs. himself; Ranch men vs. society A) Fight. B) Feud. C) Conflict. D) Argument. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Conflict. 17. Which word suggests a negative meaning: "The movie was rather disappointing." A) Rather. B) Disappointing. C) Movie. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Disappointing. 18. A close placement of words having opposite meanings in order to create a unique description A) Metaphor. B) Mood. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oxymoron. 19. When a story goes back to an earlier event in time, that is called a ..... A) Foreshadow. B) Resolution. C) Theme. D) Flashback. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Flashback. 20. This device uses obvious exaggeration to create a dramatic effect: A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Onomatopoeia. 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