This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 301 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 301 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. An imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect. A) Dystopia. B) Utopia. C) Narrative. D) Flashback. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Utopia. 2. When a writer uses very descriptive language to create pictures in the mind of the reader that appeals to all 5 senses it is called ..... A) Idiom. B) Imagery. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 3. Which is an example of CLIFFHANGER? A) The end of a season finale on TV where we don't know who died and can't find out until next season. B) In Hatchet, when Brian dropped the hatchet in the lake, and we didn't know if he'd get it. C) In Hatchet, the pilot having severe chest pains and gas. D) Brian, from Hatchet, remembering what he saw his mother doing with a stranger. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The end of a season finale on TV where we don't know who died and can't find out until next season. 4. The general idea or insight about life that a writer wishes to express, the moral of the story A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Theme. D) Point of view. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theme. 5. "Every summer the local news carries stories about people who poison themselves accidentally by inhaling oleander fumes from a beach bonfire. Or people who use oleander twigs to roast hot dogs. But what had drawn me was the photo of the oleander growing next to the orphanage, all the way in Afghanistan. It bonded us all together-Ward, Dad, and me. Poisonous, yet, but in its own way, oleander is beautiful and it grows in places that more delicate plants can't" (80).Patterson, Valerie O. Operation Oleander. Boston:Clarion Books, 2013. A) Symbolism. B) Metaphor. C) Stanza. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Symbolism. 6. Which option is the best representation of "mood" ? A) Pride. B) Sorrowful. C) Quick. D) Honesty. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sorrowful. 7. 'Look, look; a Marrog'They'd all scream and-SMACKName the literary device found above. A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Symbolism. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 8. It seems like my older brother is always hungry. A) Personification. B) NOT Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) NOT Personification. 9. The repetition of the same consonant sounds at the beginning of words A) Assonance. B) Oxymoron. C) Irony. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 10. Your ANIMAL FARM test is ..... A) Tomorrow. B) Thursday. C) Friday. D) April 12. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tomorrow. 11. "If she can't find enough employees for September, she'll be in deep doo-doo when the holiday season hits" (15) A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 12. A character in a story or play who opposes the chief character or protagonist. A) Antagonist. B) Personification. C) Connotation. D) Narrator. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antagonist. 13. What is a subordinate clause? A) A clause that must be attached to an independent clause in order to make sense. B) A type of sentence fragment. C) A way to connect to independent clauses. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A clause that must be attached to an independent clause in order to make sense. 14. The character who creates conflict for the main character A) Hero. B) Protagonist. C) Antagonist. D) A jerk?. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Antagonist. 15. Figure of speech comparing two things using "like" or "as" A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 16. The outcome of a situation is the opposite of what is expected A) Irony. B) Situational irony. C) Verbal irony. D) Foreshadowing. E) Dramatic irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Situational irony. 17. Which literary device repeats the same phrase at the beginning of each line? A) End rhyme. B) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anaphora. 18. "The camera crews, perched like buzzards on rooftops, only add to the effect." A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 19. Define:conjunction A) Word formed from the initial letters of a name, such as WAC for Women's Army Corps (ex. NASA, NBC). B) A shortened form of a word or group of words, with the missing letters usually marked by an apostrophe (ex. she's, they'll, wouldn't, I'd). C) A word having a meaning opposite to that of another word (ex. enormous vs. microscopic). D) A word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another word or other words in a language(ex. slim & thin, elated & happy, smile & grin). E) A word which links words, phrases or clauses(ex. and, but, or, nor, for, while, if, although, because, since, then). Show Answer Correct Answer: E) A word which links words, phrases or clauses(ex. and, but, or, nor, for, while, if, although, because, since, then). 20. The example highlighted below is an example of? Her ate a million hot dogs at the picnic. A) Alliteration. B) Hyperbole. C) Assonance. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. ← 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