This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 288 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 288 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Identify the literary device in the following passage: "They're half right. The United Farm Workers is first and foremost a union. A union like any other. A union that either produces for its members on the bread and butter issues or doesn't survive" (Chavez 4). A) Simile. B) Juxtaposition. C) Allusion. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Idiom. 2. Seeing the future showed Scrooge that ..... A) Money can take you far in life. B) Your friends will always be there for you. C) No matter what, life will be okay. D) Being generous is more important than being wealthy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Being generous is more important than being wealthy. 3. When the writer evokes certain feelings-vibes through words and or descriptions in the text? A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Irony. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mood. 4. An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself, that stands for something beyond itself. A) Personification. B) Repetition. C) Connotation. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbol. 5. I am trying to solve a million issues these days. A) Pun. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 6. This is just like that horrible story Kenny read me about that guy Nar-sissy who stared at himself so long he forgot to eat and starved to death. A) Personification. B) Alliteration. C) Allusion. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 7. This is a humorous play on words such as "That dreamers often lie." A) Malapropism. B) Oxymoron. C) Pun. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pun. 8. Parody A) A humorous story that makes fun of another well-known story by imitating it; characters, plot, theme, setting, may all be copied or changed for humorous effect. B) A description in which an object takes on human characteristics or actions. C) What happens in a story, told in a sequenced, chronological order. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A humorous story that makes fun of another well-known story by imitating it; characters, plot, theme, setting, may all be copied or changed for humorous effect. 9. What is a cliffhanger A) The main character's motive for doing what he/she does. B) Something you place clothing on. C) A point in the story that leaves you in suspense. D) The person in a story that causes a problem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A point in the story that leaves you in suspense. 10. Exact rhyme A) A word that sounds when spoken like the sound it describes, example:crash, bam. B) Words that sound the same but don't exactly rhyme, such as Lover andbrother. Or, Fish and promise, gone and from. C) Is rhyming two words in which both theconsonant sounds and vowel sounds match to create a rhyme. Since poetry is traditionally spoken aloud, the effect of rhyme depends upon sound rather than spelling, even words that are spelled dissimilarly can rhyme. D) A type of irony in which a person appears to be praising something but is actually insulting it. Its purpose is to injure or to hurt. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Is rhyming two words in which both theconsonant sounds and vowel sounds match to create a rhyme. Since poetry is traditionally spoken aloud, the effect of rhyme depends upon sound rather than spelling, even words that are spelled dissimilarly can rhyme. 11. "But she's like a dog that keeps jumping into your lap" (24) A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 12. ..... is the time and place in which a plot takes place. A) Conflict. B) Character. C) Setting. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Setting. 13. If something is gnarly, it is A) Smooth. B) Bumpy. C) Soft. D) Wet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bumpy. 14. I'm as grouchy as a hungry bear is an example of A) A simile. B) A metaphor. C) A hyperbole. D) An allegory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A simile. 15. You got that James Dean day dream look in your eye. A) Allusion. B) Anachronism. C) Paradox. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repetition. 16. The repetition of internal vowel sounds A) Alliteration. B) End Rhyme. C) Rhythm. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Assonance. 17. What is the definition of fear? A) Hope and hopelessness. B) Guilt. C) Ability to influence or control others. D) An unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous. 18. From whom did the book thief steal a book? A) Train passenger. B) Grave digger. C) Her mother. D) Police officer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Grave digger. 19. In "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, Scrooge experiences ..... when he has his "Aha! moment" A) Allegory. B) Epiphany. C) Colloquialism. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epiphany. 20. You're barking up the wrong tree. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Idiom. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Idiom. ← 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