This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 302 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 302 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. That is water under the bridge A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Idiom. 2. Which sentence contains a metaphor? A) The waves washed lazily along the shore. B) The Great Wall basked sinuously in the sunlight like some magnificent snake. C) London was a maze of bustling streets and secret alleyways. D) The mountain range brooded moodily beneath the thunder clouds. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) London was a maze of bustling streets and secret alleyways. 3. "Your backyard is a Garden of Eden" is an example of ..... A) Irony. B) Hyperbole. C) Allusion. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 4. A/AN ..... is a figure of speech containing words that seem to contradict each other. A) Allusion. B) Metonym. C) Oxymoron. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oxymoron. 5. Mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead. A) Eulogy. B) Elegy. C) Theory. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Elegy. 6. A description in which an object takes on human characteristics or actions A) Repetition. B) Plot. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 7. The time and location in which a story takes place: A) Plot. B) Setting. C) Conflict. D) Characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Setting. 8. Anika, Harper, and Jackson are practicing for a school play. Anika's line is:'She sells seashells by the seashore.' Identify the literary device in Anika's line. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 9. What is the modern meaning of the term 'Magi'? A) To be successful and have everything work out. B) To help others in trouble. C) To be associated with wisdom and riches. D) To be able to read signs or signals. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To be associated with wisdom and riches. 10. A secondary strand of the plot that is the supporting story for any story or for the main plot A) Main idea. B) Parallel plot. C) Subplot. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Subplot. 11. Ethos A) Appeals to logic. B) Appeals to authority. C) Words or images that signify (mean) more than they literally represent. D) Appeals to emotion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Appeals to authority. 12. The Climax is also called the ..... of the story. A) Exposition. B) Turning point. C) Table of contents. D) Rising Action. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Turning point. 13. During a school race, Acxel commented that Cruz runs as fast as a cheetah. This is an example of the following: A) Simile. B) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 14. The meaning of beautiful is about pleasing the senses or mind aesthetically. What literary device is used here? A) Connotation. B) Dictionary. C) Definition. D) Denotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Denotation. 15. The use of exaggeration to express a strong emotion or create a statement is a ..... A) Imagery. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 16. Do you need a counter argument? A) Yes. B) No. C) You need Donald Trump. D) You need Levi. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No. 17. This is a figure of speech or a rhetorical device that combines words or concepts with opposite or very different meanings A) Naming. B) Oxymoron. C) Preposition. D) Monologue. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron. 18. What is this an example of? She knew the break up was a blessing in disguise. A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Idiom. 19. Which word means a poem that does not follow a specific rhythm or rhyme scheme? A) Rhyme. B) Internal rhyme. C) Free verse. D) Rhyme scheme. E) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free verse. 20. "Remember, Cinderella, " warned her fairy godmother, "you must leave the ball at midnight. If you stay later, everything will turn back as it was. Your coach will become a pumpkin again. Your gown will become rags. Promise me you will remember." "Of course, I'll remember, " said Cinderella, but as her coach carried her toward the ball, the warning was replaced in her mind with images of dancing and music. A) Flashback. B) Foreshadowing. C) Theme. D) Climax. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foreshadowing. ← 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