This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 23 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 23 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Comparing two unlike things with "like" or "as" A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 2. What literary device was used in this piece? A) Anaphora. B) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 3. The perspective from which a story is told, such as first-person, third-person limited, or third-person omniscient A) Symbolism. B) Point Of View. C) Mood. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Point Of View. 4. An implied metaphor is ..... A) A type of metaphor that compares two unlike things without mentioning one of them. B) A metaphor that doesn't make sense. C) A metaphor with a hidden message. D) Comparing 2 like things. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A type of metaphor that compares two unlike things without mentioning one of them. 5. ..... is/are all the necessary background information a reader needs to effectively understand a story. A) Resolution. B) Exposition. C) Climax. D) The Table of Contents. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exposition. 6. What are hints, clues, or warnings about something that will happen later in the story called? A) Flashback. B) Setting. C) Allusion. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Foreshadowing. 7. The perspective or attitude that the author adopts with regards to a specific character, place or development A) Theme. B) Mood. C) Motif. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tone. 8. The last day of school is like a day at the beach-easy and relaxing. A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 9. A question asked that is not meant to be answered A) Rhetorical question. B) Symbolism. C) Antithesis. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetorical question. 10. What is this sentence an example of? A) Similarly. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Similarly. 11. "The shuttle rattled off into silence" A) Simile. B) Metaphore. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 12. Two opposites in conjunction (Jumbo Shrim) A) Metaphor. B) Oxymoron. C) Motif. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron. 13. When a thought or idea doesn't stop at the end of a line, but continues onto another line of poetry, it is called A) Rhyme scheme. B) Couplet. C) Quatrain. D) Enjambment. E) Internal rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Enjambment. 14. A non-human entity or thing is given human characteristics. What literary device is used? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 15. I've told you to clean your room a million times! A) Hyperbole. B) Oxymoron. C) Irony. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 16. Watching the show was like watching grass grow. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 17. The conclusion of a story A) Exposition. B) Climax. C) Resolution. D) Rising action. E) Falling action. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Resolution. 18. What is the literary device that refers to lines which end on a period or on a natural break in the sentence? A) Enjambment. B) End-stopped lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) End-stopped lines. 19. What is the beat of a poem? A) The poets mind. B) An image created in the. C) The poems rhyth. D) The title of a poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The poems rhyth. 20. The time and place where a story takes place A) Setting. B) Irony. C) Hyperbole. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Setting. ← 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