This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 231 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 231 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A character who acts as contrast to another character A) Hero. B) Antithesis. C) Foil. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Foil. 2. Repeats same word or phrase a few times to make an idea clearer or more memorable A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Repetition. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 3. Giving human-like qualities to an animal, object or idea. A) Personification. B) Symbolism. C) Imagery. D) Quatrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 4. Example: "Rita heard the last piece of pie calling her name." A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Assonance. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 5. Any struggle between opposing forces; it drives each and every story A) Sensory details. B) Figurative language. C) Plot. D) Conflict tagsCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.6. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Conflict tagsCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.6. 6. What's the definition of dramatic irony? A) The reader or audience has knowledge of some critical piece of information, while the character or characters to whom the information pertains do not yet themselves have the same knowledge as the audience. B) The literal meaning of what someone says is different from-and often opposite to-what they actually mean. C) It occurs when incongruity appears between expectations of something to happen, and what actually happens instead. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The reader or audience has knowledge of some critical piece of information, while the character or characters to whom the information pertains do not yet themselves have the same knowledge as the audience. 7. The comparison of one thing to another without the use of like or as. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 8. Harry Potter battling Voldemort is an example of which type of conflict? A) Man vs Self. B) Man vs Society. C) Man vs Man. D) Man vs Nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Man vs Man. 9. What is the definition of summarizing? A) Restating what has happened in your own words. B) Giving a brief update of what happened. C) Telling what is going to happen later on. D) Explaining what else is happening. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Giving a brief update of what happened. 10. Which literary device is used when a story or poem has a hidden meaning? A) Allegory. B) Alliteration. C) Allusion. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allegory. 11. What is the best definition of a metaphor? A) The comparison of two unlike things WITHOUT using like or as. B) A comparison of two unlike things using like or as. C) A device in literature when an object or thing represents an idea. D) An exaggeration or overstatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The comparison of two unlike things WITHOUT using like or as. 12. Define:Personification 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: 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.). 13. What is the correct progression of plot structure? A) Resolution, rising action, climax, falling action, exposition. B) Exposition, climax, falling action, rising action, resolution. C) Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution. D) Rising action, falling action, climax, resolution, exposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution. 14. An author's style or manner of expression A) Voice. B) Diction. C) Symbol. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Voice. 15. "The sun was like a large ball of butter" is an example of A) Personification. B) Paradox. C) Oxymoron. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 16. The point of greatest emotional intensity, interest or suspense in a narrative. A) Diction. B) Analogy. C) Climax. D) Denouement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Climax. 17. Identify the adjective in the following sentence:He banged his head on the glass door. A) Banged. B) Head. C) Glass. D) Door. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Glass. 18. Igor is using which literary device when telling Frederick Frankenstein that his name is actually pronounced "Eye-gor?" A) Irony. B) Sarcasm. C) Simile. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sarcasm. 19. The category of art/literature grouped by similar form, style, or subject. A) Genre. B) Simile. C) Setting. D) Figurative language. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Genre. 20. Anytime the author uses details to teach us about a person in the story. A) Dialogue. B) Conflict. C) Characterization. D) First Person. 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