This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 255 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 255 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Burr, check what we gotMister Lafayette, hard rock like LancelotWhat device is NOT in the sentence A) Allusion. B) Simile. C) End rhyme. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 2. An author's word choice (ex:formal, informal, slang, etc) A) Satire. B) Theme. C) Diction. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Diction. 3. What type of literary device is found in the following quite: "Until then I am a red balloon, a balloon tied to an anchor" (9). A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 4. What can a light bulb symbolize? A) Magic. B) Intelligence. C) Love. D) Mystery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Intelligence. 5. I could have slept for a hundred years. A) Oxymoron. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Understatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 6. What is the definition of hope and hopelessness? A) Guilt. B) Ability to influence or control others. C) Feeling of being isolated or excluded. D) The feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen. 7. He was nervous, very very nervous. This is an example of ..... A) Repetition. B) Syllables. C) Rhyme. D) Stanzas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 8. You really are the apple of my eye A) Anastrophe. B) Colloquialism. C) Metaphor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 9. Group of lines in a poem-paragraph A) Paragraph. B) Stanza. C) Lines. D) Line break. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. 10. Let's play a fun game of 'Guess the Literary Device'! Can you tell what the following example is demonstrating?'The dove is often used as a symbol of peace' A) Simile. B) Foreshadowing. C) Symbolism. D) Flashback. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbolism. 11. The way a writer uses language to convey a meaning A) Dramatic Irony. B) Author's Style. C) Imagery. D) Dialect. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Author's Style. 12. What is the literary device that refers to two rhyming words juxtaposed inside of the line? A) Internal rhyme. B) End rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Internal rhyme. 13. What are all the events before the climax called? A) Rising action. B) Falling action. C) Resolution. D) Exposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rising action. 14. A flashback is ..... A) Previous events split up the present happenings. B) Using symbols to represent concepts or idea. C) When the author hints at events yet to happen in a story. D) The same thing again. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Previous events split up the present happenings. 15. Personification is giving human characteristics to objects A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 16. What are archetypes? A) Descriptive words about sight, sound, taste, touch/feel, and smell. B) Patterns in literature. C) Recurrent image, idea or symbol that develops a theme. D) Something that stands for something else. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Patterns in literature. 17. "He lists the disasters, the droughts, the storms, the fires, the encroaching seas that swallowed up so much of the land ..... " A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 18. A contrast between what is expected and what actually happens A) Diction. B) Tone. C) Irony. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Irony. 19. The protagonist of a story is ..... A) The author's use of descriptive language to activate a reader's five senses. B) The series of events in a story. C) When an object represents a broad, hard-to-define idea. D) The main character in the story the "good guy.". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The main character in the story the "good guy.". 20. A reference to someone or something in pop culture is called ..... A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Parallel Structure. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. ← 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