This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 265 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 265 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which literary device is shown here?58 bracchiaque intendens prendique et prendere ceertans A) Simile. B) Hyperbaton. C) Polyptoton. D) Litotes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Polyptoton. 2. A manner of speaking that is informal and uses phrases or words associated with a particular area. A) Common. B) Slang. C) Colloquial. D) Dialect. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Colloquial. 3. Thomas wants to fulfill his promises before he pass in some nocturnal darkness. A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Euphemism. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Euphemism. 4. Fireflies fly face first into the fence. What literary device are they using here? A) Imagery. B) Alliteration. C) Rhythm. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 5. The results or effects of the climax A) Tone. B) Setting. C) Falling Action. D) Point of View. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Falling Action. 6. What is the definition for Person or Narrative Perspective? A) The act of hinting at or setting up a situation, event or action that will later be extremely important in the narrative but doesn't seem important at the time. B) This is essentially a 'story within a story', wherein the main narrative is being told, remembered, etc. by someone in the 'outside narrative. C) First, second or third person narratives are usually categorised by their use of "I" , "you" , or "they" respectively. D) This describes the way in which a narrative flows or is told. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) First, second or third person narratives are usually categorised by their use of "I" , "you" , or "they" respectively. 7. "Mama in the kitchen feeding clothes into the wringer washer and clothes rolling out all stiff and twisted like flat paper." ..... "My Lucy Friend Who Smells Like Corn" "Stiff and twisted like flat paper" is an example of: A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 8. "Men increase, women increase, youth increase, boys increase in the ranks of the breadwinners; but no contingent so doubles from census period to census period (both by percent and by count of heads), as does the contingent of girls between twelve and twenty years of age." A) Alliteration. B) Imagery. C) Repetition. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 9. In the sentence 'He ran as fast as a cheetah.', what literary device is being used? A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 10. Character versus self is an ..... conflict A) Internal. B) External. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Internal. 11. This part of the plot between climax and resolution: A) Falling action. B) Resolution. C) Rising Action. D) Conclusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Falling action. 12. The direct "window" into a piece of work. A) Point of view. B) Flashback. C) Flashforward. D) Narrator. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Narrator. 13. I started buttoning up the shirt. It about swallowed me. A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Irony. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 14. If you're writing prose that contains dialogue, when must you begin a new paragraph? A) Whenever a different character begins speaking. B) At the end of every sentence. C) Before every speech tag. D) After every comma. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Whenever a different character begins speaking. 15. When the reader expects one thing, but the opposite occurs A) Dramatic irony. B) Foreshadowing. C) External conflict. D) Situational irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Situational irony. 16. The corn stalks stretched up to the sky, yearning for it to rain.This is an example of ..... A) Paradox. B) Oxymoron. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 17. How does dialogue impact a story? A) I helps us understand the message that the author is trying to teach us. B) It helps us understand the character and can add meaning to a story. C) It tells us what that characters are saying. D) It tells us when a character doesn't like someone or something. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It helps us understand the character and can add meaning to a story. 18. "Yet he held his hold (though he was sundry fathoms under water:till he was hauled up by the same rope to the brim of the water" A) Indirect Characterization. B) Direct Characterization. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Indirect Characterization. 19. What is an omniscient narrator? A) Someone who has access to multiple character thoughts and feelings. B) The narrator credibility is under question. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Someone who has access to multiple character thoughts and feelings. 20. The glaring sun made the trees glisten in the forest is an example of A) A symbol. B) Imagery. C) Alliteration. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. ← 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