This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 234 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 234 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "but" or "however" A) Contrast. B) Continuity. C) Question-Answered. D) Illustration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Contrast. 2. What a word suggests beyond its surface definition A) Connotation. B) Denotation. C) Imagery. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Connotation. 3. What are the nouns in this sentence? At the park there were many ducks. A) Park, ducks. B) Park, there. C) There, were. D) Many, ducks. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Park, ducks. 4. Life is a rollercoaster A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Positive tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 5. What is the purpose of foreshadowing? A) It creates an atmosphere of suspense in a story. B) Tim loudly talking across the classroom, but so loud it sounds like he is yelling for some reason?. C) To build background information. D) To spoil the ending. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It creates an atmosphere of suspense in a story. 6. Clues throughout a text that hint at something happening later in the plot A) Personification. B) Analogy. C) Flashback. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Foreshadowing. 7. The formation of a word by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent. ex:cuckoo, meow, honk A) Metaphor. B) Figurative language. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 8. Inanimate objects that possess human qualities is the definition of what literary device? A) Hyperbole. B) Imagery. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 9. The morning was cold with a bold statement. A) Assonance. B) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 10. After weeks of working late, Austin was feeling run-down. A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Idiom. 11. Heat imagery A) Kinetic. B) Tactile. C) Gustatory. D) Thermal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thermal. 12. Based on a person or event from history A) Science fiction. B) Fantasy. C) Historical fiction. D) Realistic fiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Historical fiction. 13. It describe words that have the same ending sounds. A) Stanza. B) Line. C) Rhyme. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme. 14. Example:The cup of hot tea was medicine for my soul. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 15. The narrator is someone outside the action, rather than a character. A) First person point of view. B) Second person point of view. C) Third person point of view. D) Third person onmniscient. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Third person point of view. 16. A figure of speech that uses seeming contradictions, as "cruel kindness" or "make haste slowly" A) Onomatopoeia. B) Pun. C) Metaphor. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oxymoron. 17. What is the literary definition of a simile? A) Compare two unlike things directly, without using a word of comparison. B) Speaking of an inanimate object as if it had human qualities. C) Occurs when we say one thing and mean something else. D) Compare two unlike things using a word of comparison such as "like". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Compare two unlike things using a word of comparison such as "like". 18. We're busy doing nothing. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) Oxymoron. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oxymoron. 19. Imagine you are sitting by a calm lake, reading a poem where the 's' sound is repeated frequently to mimic the sound of the gentle waves. What is this technique called? A) Allusion. B) Personification. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 20. "Your love is a symphonyAll around meRunning through me Your love is a melodyUnderneath meRunning to me" -Switchfoot, "Your Love is a Song" A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. ← 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