Literary Devices Quiz 238 (20 MCQs)

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1. When a sentence uses words that start with the same letter. (Ex:Sally sells seashells by the seashore.)

Correct Answer: A) Alliteration.

2. Which one of the literary devices is used in this line? "I am silver and exact."

Correct Answer: B) Personification.

3. "He's gonna make me some invisible ink, and I'm gonna write to Dill in it." -TKAM, Ch 9

Correct Answer: C) Oxymoron.

4. This literary device compares two things (not to be taken literally)

Correct Answer: B) Metaphor.

5. She was a quiet mouse reading in the corner of the class.

Correct Answer: B) Metaphor.

6. What is the term?giving an object or animal attributes that are human (i.e. feelings, thoughts, or attitudes)

Correct Answer: D) Personification.

7. A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is mean

Correct Answer: C) Verbal irony.

8. Identify the literary device in the sentence 'The darkness of the night was a blanket of secrets.'

Correct Answer: B) Metaphor.

9. Identify the literary device in the sentence 'Her eyes were shining stars'.

Correct Answer: B) Metaphor.

10. Which of the following is: "A character whose personality doesn't change over the course of a work"

Correct Answer: C) Static character.

11. A way of speaking that is characteristic of a certain social group or of inhabitants of a certain geographical area

Correct Answer: A) Dialect.

12. When the narrator uses pronouns like "you"

Correct Answer: B) Second person.

13. True or false? An element of Gothic literature could involve satire.

Correct Answer: B) False.

14. Refers to the person telling the story

Correct Answer: C) Point of View.

15. "The wind whispered its secrets to me"

Correct Answer: C) Personification.

16. This is an example of what kind of literary device:"They are as quiet as a mouse."

Correct Answer: D) Simile.

17. Identify the preposition(s): ..... Jake sat between Jim and Jerry.

Correct Answer: C) Between.

18. Read the sentence and choose the onomatopoeia. Wow, Hailie's race car zoomed past the finish line.

Correct Answer: A) Zoomed.

19. In the phrase 'The sun smiled down on us', which literary device is being used?

Correct Answer: B) Personification.

20. What is the definition of Resolution?

Correct Answer: C) How the story ends.