This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 202 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 202 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The flag hid shyly from the April breeze, refusing to flutter until a gust moved in. A) G. Personification. B) A. Simile. C) B. Metaphor. D) C. Hyperbole. E) D. Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) G. Personification. 2. Choose the word with the positive connotation. self-confident ..... arrogant A) Self-confident. B) Arrogant. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Self-confident. 3. When the author gives clues to something that has not yet happened A) Writing. B) Foreshadowing. C) Characterization. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foreshadowing. 4. Man vs. man; man vs. self; man vs. society; man vs. supernatural. A) Complicating factor. B) Conflicts. C) Dilemma. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Conflicts. 5. He is one tough cookie. A) He eats a lot of cookies. B) He likes cookies. C) He works hard. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He works hard. 6. Extreme exaggeration for effect A) Synecdoche. B) Enjambment. C) Allusion. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 7. What does Jackie wonder when she attends Sunday sermons? A) Why children are not allowed at church. B) Why women are not allowed to preach. C) Why Eve took a bite of the apple. D) Why she has to be there. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Why women are not allowed to preach. 8. Giving human characteristics to something nonhuman is A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Atmosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 9. "She was lost in a sea of nameless faces." This sentence is an example of ..... A) Flashback. B) Foreshadowing. C) Imagery. D) Metaphor. E) Symbolism tagsCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.4. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 10. Creating a mental visualization because of words that affect your senses is ..... ? A) Simile. B) Imagery. C) Allusion. D) Illusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 11. Problem within a character A) Internal conflict. B) External conflict. C) Oxymoron. D) Rhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Internal conflict. 12. What literary device give human qualities to objects or animals A) Cliffhanger. B) Humor. C) Personification. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 13. Which idiom goes the best with this sentence?I have a problem. A) Well, shut my mouth. B) I'm in a pickle. C) Don't put all of your eggs in one basket. D) He who laughs loudest, often laughs last. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I'm in a pickle. 14. Paradox is A) Two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect. B) Is a kind of metaphor-using symbols to represent ideas or qualities. C) Vivid description that appeals to a readers' senses to create an image or idea in their mind. D) Opposite ideas that reveals a truth despite its impossibility. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Opposite ideas that reveals a truth despite its impossibility. 15. Which literary device is a scene in a story that goes back in time to reveal something important about a character or event? A) Dialogue. B) Narrative. C) Flashback. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Flashback. 16. How the story ends A) Resolution. B) Exposition. C) Climax. D) Falling action. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Resolution. 17. Usually placed at the end of a chapter to encourage the reader to continue reading A) Rule of Three. B) Dramatic Irony. C) Comic Relief. D) Cliff Hanger. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cliff Hanger. 18. Antagonist is: A) A character that is different at the beginning and end of the story. B) The main character. C) The enemy of the main character. D) A character that is the same at the start and end of a story. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The enemy of the main character. 19. CRASH! went the cymbals during the song is an example of ..... A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 20. "An apprehensive night crawled slowly by like a wounded snake and sleep did not visit Rainsford, although the silence of a dead world was on the jungle."What 2 literary devices are being used in the above passage? A) Simile and Personification. B) Simile & Imagery. C) Personification & Metaphor. D) Imagery & Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile and Personification. ← 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