This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 261 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 261 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Giving or attributing human qualities to animals or inanimate objects A) Anthropomorphism. B) Zoomorphism. C) Patronizing. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 2. Tommy was caught in the bathroom jerking the gherkin. A) Euphemism. B) Metaphor. C) Irony. D) Sarcasm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Euphemism. 3. A humorous use of a word or phrase that has more than one meaning (or two similarly spelled words that sound alike) A) Stereotype. B) Pun. C) POV. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pun. 4. I'm so tired I could sleep for one hundred years, is an example of what? A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 5. Which text evidence best describes the develop of his theme? Ambition Over Adversity by Tupac Shakur Take one's adversity Learn from their misfortune Learn from their pain Believe in something Believe in yourself Turn adversity into ambition Now blossom into wealth A) "Take one's adversity". B) "Learn from their misfortune, Believe in something". C) "Believe in yourself, Believe in something". D) "Take one's adversity, Turn adversity into ambition". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "Take one's adversity, Turn adversity into ambition". 6. Banquo's son..... A) Duncan. B) Macduff. C) Fleance. D) Malcolm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fleance. 7. In one of Aesop's fables, four animals go hunting under the assumption that they will split their prize equally, but the lion, the most powerful animal, takes more than the other members of the group.What is the meaning of the allusion in the sentence below?My older brother takes the lion's share of the space in our bedroom. A) An equal amount. B) A tiny bit. C) An even split. D) The largest portion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The largest portion. 8. Any person appearing in a work of fiction is called a ..... A) Allegory. B) People. C) Character. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Character. 9. How can a person run slowly? A) Oxymoron. B) Idiom. C) Euphemism. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron. 10. A comparison of two different things using "like" or "as" A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 11. Telling a quiet group, "don't speak all at once" is an example of ..... A) Idiom. B) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irony. 12. Reversal of word order to create emphasis A) Allusion. B) Hyperbole. C) Inversion. D) Epithet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Inversion. 13. Which of the following phrases has a more NEGATIVE connotation? A) A pushy leader. B) A charismatic leader. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A pushy leader. 14. I'm takin this horse by the reins makin'Redcoats redder with bloodstainsWhich device is NOT present? A) Imagery. B) Metaphor. C) End rhyme. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 15. Place and time. A) Setting. B) Theme. C) Narrative Poem. D) Climax. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Setting. 16. The star was a flashlight guiding me home. A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 17. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words, such as "doubting dreaming dreams ..... " A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 18. Your suitcase weighs a ton. This is an example of what type of figurative language? A) Alliteration. B) Hyperbole. C) Analogy. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 19. Which of the following is: "descriptive or figurative language in a literary work; the use of language to create sensory impressions?" A) Setting. B) Characterization. C) Point of view. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 20. Third person limited omniscient is when ..... A) The story uses the pronoun "you" to address the reader. B) The story is being told directly by the narrator from their perspective. C) The narrator exists outside the story but still knows every character's thoughts, feelings, and motivations. D) The narrator exists outside the knows the thoughts, feelings, and motivations of only one character. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The narrator exists outside the knows the thoughts, feelings, and motivations of only one character. ← 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