This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 27 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 27 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. So I stood there like a bump on a log. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 2. When inanimate objects are given human-like qualities. A) Imagery. B) Irony. C) Theme. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 3. "The fragrance of the flowers filled the air." Which sense created the image? A) Touch. B) Smell. C) Sight. D) Taste. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Smell. 4. Minor character A) The main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work. Plot structure is made up of the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. B) Serves to complement the major characters and help move the plot events forward. Usually only appear every so often and do not have many lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Serves to complement the major characters and help move the plot events forward. Usually only appear every so often and do not have many lines. 5. A big idea in the story that can be applied to life A) Theme. B) Plot. C) Exposition. D) Conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme. 6. Your beauty was a web of frail delight A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 7. Internal Conflict is: A) A problem the character(s) in the novel face. B) A problem the main character has with themselves. C) A problem the main character has with other people, society, or nature. D) The enemy of the main character. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A problem the main character has with themselves. 8. The close placement of contrasting ideas, images, or entities, with the intent of highlighting the contrast between those entities A) Epilogue. B) Anecdote. C) Juxtaposition. D) Tragedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Juxtaposition. 9. "Named must your fear be, before banish it you can." A) Analogy. B) Unconnected. C) Connotation. D) Hyperbaton. E) Periphrasis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbaton. 10. Definition-a phrase that conveys a figurative meaning different from the words used Example-For example, "kick the bucket" is another saying for "death." A) Atmosphere. B) Imagery. C) Allusion. D) Symbol. E) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Idiom. 11. What type of punctuation is used to set an appositive apart? A) Question mark. B) Period. C) Exclamation mark. D) Comma. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Comma. 12. Their math teacher was soold that she was aroundwhen dinosaurs were alive. A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 13. A character that stays the same throughout the story. A) Dynamic character. B) Static character. C) Foil character . D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Static character. 14. Symbols A) Compares two things by saying they are "like" each other. B) Implied or indirect reference to a person, event, or thing or another text. C) Attribute of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object. D) Person, object, place, event, action suggesting more than literal meaning. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Person, object, place, event, action suggesting more than literal meaning. 15. "The tree danced gaily in the morning sun" is A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 16. Sputtering, gurgling, clanking, tapping, thumping A) Smell. B) Sight. C) Hear. D) Touch. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hear. 17. What's the definition of tone? A) The array of feelings the work evokes in the reader. B) The authors hint at plot developments that don't actually occur until later in the story. C) The attitude of the author or the person speaking. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The attitude of the author or the person speaking. 18. Figurative LanguageUses figures of speech to be more effective, persuasive, and impactful. A) Figurative Language. B) Similes. C) Hyperbole. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Figurative Language. 19. A ..... can be fiction or nonfiction, written in first person or third person point of view. A) Narrative. B) Plot. C) Character. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Narrative. 20. When a character speaks to another character, the audience, or themselves, and the other characters on stage can't hear them. A) Aside. B) Monologue. C) Allusion. D) Soliloquy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aside. ← 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