This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 272 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 272 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Irony (Dramatic) A) A figure of speech in which extreme exaggeration is used. B) A word or group of words whose meaning is created from usage and not the definition of the words. These are usually developed in local areas. C) The irony occurring when the implications of a situation, speech, etc. are understood by the audience but not by the characters. D) Description that appeals to at least one of the five senses:sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The irony occurring when the implications of a situation, speech, etc. are understood by the audience but not by the characters. 2. What does anaphora refer to? A) A reference to a well-known person, text, or idea. B) The repetition of the same consonant sounds. C) The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of a line. D) A narrative poem, often set to music, that tells a story. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of a line. 3. The plot goes ahead of time; meaning a scene that interrupts and takes the narrative forward in time from the current time in the stoty. A) Flashback. B) Flash-forward. C) Juxtaposition. D) Stream of Conciousness. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flash-forward. 4. To convince a reader to believe an idea or take a course of action, the author uses ..... writing A) Expository. B) Persuasive. C) Narrative. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Persuasive. 5. What story is this from? "I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you." A) The Bet. B) The Lady or the TIger. C) The Tell Tale Heart. D) All Summer in a Day. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Bet. 6. What is the main function of the narrator in a story? A) To provide background information. B) To confuse the reader. C) To create suspense. D) To tell the story. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To tell the story. 7. The who and whom of the story is defines ..... A) Setting. B) Milieu. C) Character. D) Suspense. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Character. 8. Conversation between two or more characters in either fiction or nonfiction; and is told almost exclusively in drama is the definition of which term A) Claim. B) Dialect. C) Diction. D) Dialogue. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dialogue. 9. What is the definition of medium? A) One of the means or channels of general communication, information, or entertainment in society, as newspapers, radio, or television. B) The elements of the natural world, as mountains, trees, animals, or rivers. C) To get up after falling or being thrown down. D) A middle state or condition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) One of the means or channels of general communication, information, or entertainment in society, as newspapers, radio, or television. 10. Which literary device is a type of phrasal repetition that mirrors the syntax but changes one or two words? A) Allusion. B) Enjambment. C) Metaphor. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Parallelism. 11. The main character of a story who must overcome conflict A) Figurative Language. B) Protagonist. C) Villain. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Protagonist. 12. Make a situation seem less important than it really is. / Make a situation seem less important than it really is. A) Personification. B) Conflict. C) Understatement. D) Underwear. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Understatement. 13. A conflict where a person must fight against nature. A) Man vs. society. B) Man vs. man. C) Man vs. nature. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Man vs. nature. 14. What literary device best describes the sentence? A) Allusion. B) Irony. C) Metaphor. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 15. "The foxtails were as tall as skyscrapers" is an example of ..... A) Simile. B) Alliteration. C) Rhyme. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 16. Verbal irony is defined as ..... A) When something is said, but the opposite is meant; sarcasm is one example. B) When the reader knows something crucial that the characters do not; leads to a surprising twist. C) The main character in the story the "good guy" . D) Hints or clues about future events in a story. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) When something is said, but the opposite is meant; sarcasm is one example. 17. "I am so hungry I could eat a horse." is an example of which literary device? A) Allegory. B) Hyperbole. C) Idiom. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 18. "The Heart wants what it wants-or else it does not care" A) Personification. B) Symbolism. C) Juxtaposition. D) Situational Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 19. The calm lake was a mirror. A) Hyperbole. B) Idiom. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 20. What is the mood of a text? A) Emotions audience feels from a given passage. B) The time and place of the story. C) The Lesson the reader learns from the story. D) The summary of events in the text. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Emotions audience feels from a given passage. ← 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