This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 218 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 218 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A comparison between essentially unlike things without using like or as A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 2. The mood can also be described as the atmosphere of the literary piece. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 3. Why might an author use cliff hanger in his or her writing? 2 answers A) Focuses readers' attention on a particular section of text. B) To help the reader understand a character, object or point of view by comparing those subjects to something the audience already understands. C) Creates rhythm and mood and can have particular connotations. D) Used to create tension. E) It gives voice to the characters. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Used to create tension. 4. I can run as fast as a jet plane. A) Simile. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 5. The author's attitude or emotional stance towards the subject matter or audience A) Perspective. B) Tone. C) Mood. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 6. The message or lesson A) Hyperbole. B) Story. C) Theme. D) Flashback. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theme. 7. The moment of greatest emotional intensity and action; it determines of the main character will or will not reach goal A) Exposition. B) Rising action. C) Climax. D) Resolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Climax. 8. Personification is when a statement is extremely exaggerated. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 9. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in 2 or more neighboring words or syllables. A) Alliteration. B) Epilogue. C) Oxymoron. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 10. Repetition of a word or phrase at the end of a line of poetry A) Hyperbole. B) Irony/Paradox. C) Anaphora. D) Epistrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Epistrophe. 11. Which literary device is employed in the sentence: "To err is human, to forgive divine." A) Anaphora. B) Antithesis. C) Paradox. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antithesis. 12. 3rd Person (Omniscient) A) Told by a character in the story and uses "I". B) Only gets into the mind of 1 character (or no characters' thoughts at all). C) All knowing (thoughts of 2 or more characters). D) Through whose eyes and mind the story is told. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) All knowing (thoughts of 2 or more characters). 13. A struggle within a character (between their needs, desires, or emotions) A) External conflict. B) Internal conflict. C) Direct characterization. D) Indirect characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Internal conflict. 14. The highest point of tension and conflict in a story is also known as ..... A) Antagonist. B) Conflict. C) Climax. D) Clash. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Climax. 15. What is it called when you compare two things NOT using the words "like" or "as" ? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. E) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 16. The author directly states or describes a character's traits A) Direct Characterization. B) Metaphor. C) Indirect characterization. D) Unreliable narrator. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Direct Characterization. 17. Synchesis A) Seas all around. B) I attached a purple gold buckle to my dress. C) I came, I saw, I conquered. D) And the waves rise to the stars. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I attached a purple gold buckle to my dress. 18. Polite or mild words that take place of crude or harsh words. A) Irony. B) Euphemisms. C) Rhetorical questions. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Euphemisms. 19. The emotional appeal or quality of a work that elicits pity, sorrow, or sympathy from the audience. A) Rhetoric. B) Ethos. C) Logos. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pathos. 20. When an author includes a quotation from another literary piece at the beginning of her work, this is called a(n) ..... A) Epigraph. B) Epitaph. C) Simile. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Epigraph. ← 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