This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 248 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 248 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Repetitive consonant sounds at the beginning of two or more major words in a sentence or line A) Allusion. B) Alliteration. C) Consonance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 2. When the author provides a hint as to where the story is going, or hints at an upcoming event but doesn't tell the ending, this is known as: A) Genre. B) Foreshadowing. C) Motif. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foreshadowing. 3. Words that imitate actions or sounds A) Onomatopoeia. B) Foreshadowing. C) Pun. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 4. And round about there is a rabble Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor. They shall inherit the earth. A) Alliteration. B) Rhyme. C) Free Verse. D) Limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free Verse. 5. We like to eat apples A) . B) ?. C) !. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) . 6. What is the following an example of? When life gets hard, I just remember to keep on swimming. (Think "Finding Nemo") A) Allusion. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 7. A character who acts as a contrast to another character A) Foil. B) Voice. C) Irony. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foil. 8. The beginning of Forged by Fire is from three year old Gerald's ..... A) Journal. B) Point of view. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Point of view. 9. When a character says something with a sarcastic tone, it is an example of ..... irony. A) Verbal. B) Situational. C) Dramatic. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Verbal. 10. These are the opposite of the flat character. These characters have many different traits, good and bad, making them more interesting. A) Flat character. B) Round character. C) Static character. D) Dynamic character. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Round character. 11. Which literary device is being used in the following sentence:'The shapeshifter was a sly fox, making his way through town without any detection.'? A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. C) Metaphor. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 12. ..... is the series of actions and events that take place in a story. A) Setting. B) Plot. C) Allegory. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plot. 13. Narrator is not involved in the story and reveals the thoughts/feelings of all of the characters. A) Third person omniscient. B) Third person limited. C) Second person. D) First person. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Third person omniscient. 14. A pencil is to paper as a keyboard is to a computer. A) Personification. B) Thesis. C) Analogy. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Analogy. 15. They put me in the oven to bake.Me, a deprived and miserable cake.Feeling the heat, I started to bubble.Watching the others, I knew I was in trouble.-"The Life of a Cupcake", by Shelby Greer A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme. 16. What is the literary definition of a imagery? A) A way of speaking that's characteristic of a particular place or group of people. B) Language that creates word pictures and appeals to the senses. C) Comparing two unlike things directly, without using a word of comparison. D) Comparing two unlike things using a word of comparison such as "like". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Language that creates word pictures and appeals to the senses. 17. "In Georgia there is no restriction whatever!" A) Anastrophe. B) Anaphora. C) Euphemism. D) Ecphonesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ecphonesis. 18. The technique of giving human qualities to an object or an idea. A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 19. A definitive stance that the author adopts in shaping a specific emotional perspective towards the subject of the literary work A) Motif. B) Setting. C) Mood. D) Genre. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mood. 20. Which literary device is being used in the following sentence:'I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse!'? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. ← 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