This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 287 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 287 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. They fill each womb with an armed soldier. A) Metaphor. B) Ellipsis. C) Hyperbaton. D) Enjambment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 2. When a person says one thing and means another, it is called ..... A) Situational irony. B) Dialogue. C) Verbal irony. D) Dramatic irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Verbal irony. 3. Hearing/sound imagery A) Aural. B) Gustatory. C) Kinetic. D) Olfactory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aural. 4. What is anaphora? A) The use of a word or phrase that has multiple meanings. B) The use of a word or phrase that contradicts itself. C) The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences. D) The repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses or sentences. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences. 5. When the author appeals to the five senses. A) Sense bombing. B) Distinction. C) Imagery. D) Elucidation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 6. "She is a rose." This statement is an example of ..... A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Imagery. D) Flashback. E) Foreshadowing tagsCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.4. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 7. The character is revealed through their personality, appearance words, actions, and effect on others A) Direct characterization. B) Imagery. C) Idiom. D) Indirect characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Indirect characterization. 8. Honest about events that will happen later in the story. A) Foreshadowing. B) Flashback. C) Imagery. D) Satire. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foreshadowing. 9. Who turns out to be a man NOT "born" of woman but instead "untimely ripped" from the womb? A) Macbeth. B) Macduff. C) Malcolm. D) Lady Macbeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Macduff. 10. The beginning of the story where the characters and the setting are revealed. The introduction can also be called the exposition A) Rising action. B) Falling action. C) Exposition. D) Climax. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exposition. 11. -beautiful tyrant A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Pun. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oxymoron. 12. Which literary device is shown here? 1 he seems to me to be equal to a god, 2 he, if he is right, will overcome the gods A) Apostrophe. B) Assonance. C) Anaphora. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anaphora. 13. "The moonlight painted the world in shades of silver." This line from a poem is an example of: A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 14. Which literary device is used in the sentence 'It is raining cats and dogs.'? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Idiom. 15. Which literary device is used in the sentence:'I've told you a million times'? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 16. Kick the bucket A) Avoid a conflict. B) When everything seems to be going wrong. C) Not making a firm decision between different choices. D) To die. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To die. 17. How does the use of foreshadowing enhance a story? A) Foreshadowing enhances a story by improving grammar and punctuation. B) Foreshadowing enhances a story by creating suspense and anticipation, giving readers a hint of what is to come. C) Foreshadowing enhances a story by describing the physical appearance of characters. D) Foreshadowing has no effect on enhancing a story. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foreshadowing enhances a story by creating suspense and anticipation, giving readers a hint of what is to come. 18. A feeling of fascination or excitement mixed with fear, apprehension or tension. This device is usually used in mystery stories or movies. A) Symbol. B) Suspense. C) Imagery. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Suspense. 19. Evidence A) Interruption of the present action to insert an episode that took place earlier. B) Mental pictures which are created by descriptions of the senses, so that we can see and feel what the character is experiencing. C) Information from the text that supports, or proves, an inference or fact. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Information from the text that supports, or proves, an inference or fact. 20. Which literary device gives human characteristics to non-human objects or animals? A) Anthropomorphism. B) Epithet. C) Euphemism. D) Figurative language. 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