This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 310 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 310 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. This literary device does not require using like or as to make a comparison A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Symbolism. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 2. What lesson did Scrooge learn from the Spirit of Christmas Yet to Come? A) Speak kindly of people because you never know what they are going through. B) You cannot trust those that are close to you. C) Be kind to people or else they will rob you. D) He needs to use his money to help those around him because his money is useless after he is dead. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He needs to use his money to help those around him because his money is useless after he is dead. 3. That television is state-of-the-art. A) H. Idiom. B) A. Simile. C) B. Metaphor. D) C. Hyperbole. E) D. Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) H. Idiom. 4. Can you keep the cat from clawing the couch? A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Tone. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 5. The events of a story A) Plot. B) Figurative language. C) Structure. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plot. 6. The author's feelings or attitude toward his subject matter or characters in the story A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Dialect. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 7. This event in the plot sets the central conflict in motion. A) Inciting incident. B) Exposition. C) Climax. D) Rising Action. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inciting incident. 8. When the audience knows something the characters don't A) Verbal irony. B) Dramatic irony. C) Situational irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dramatic irony. 9. Which literary device is used to develop the personalities and traits of the characters in The Alchemist? A) Plot. B) Setting. C) Characterization. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Characterization. 10. What literary device does the word "sad" refers to? A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Imagery. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 11. The emotions the reader feels while reading a story. A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Imagery. D) Situational irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mood. 12. Who becomes king after Macbeth is killed? A) Malcolm. B) Macduff. C) Fleance. D) Lady Macbeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Malcolm. 13. Point of View:Perspective from which the story is told. Which is the easiest to use and most common? A) Third-person:narrator outside the story; uses "he, " "she, " "they". B) First-person:narrator is a character in the story; uses "I, " "we, " etc. C) Third-person omniscient:narrator can see into the minds of all characters. D) Third-person limited:narrator tells only what one character perceives. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) First-person:narrator is a character in the story; uses "I, " "we, " etc. 14. A category system that literature falls into based on specific conventions that develop to characterize the differences A) Genre. B) Irony. C) Parody. D) Setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Genre. 15. As the train pulled into the station, we finally met eyes. We had been avoiding this moment, but it was here now. Tears welled. Words choked. We hugged each other awkwardly before I grabbed my bags and jumped on the train. A chapter had ended. Things would never be the same between us again. What is the point of view? A) First person. B) Second person. C) Third person limited. D) Third person omniscient. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) First person. 16. The continued use of the same word or word pattern A) Metaphor. B) Repetition. C) Figurative. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 17. When the character struggles against an outside force A) Internal conflict. B) External conflict. C) Dark conflict. D) Light conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) External conflict. 18. The big headed, gray alien with the little, round pot belly looked on as the giant yellow beam zeroed in on the lonely cow. A) Imagery. B) Oxymoron. C) Tone. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 19. Stories handed down through speech from generation to generation, have an unknown author, adapted from, and retold A) Fiction. B) Drama. C) Folklore. D) Nonfiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Folklore. 20. The story of a real person's life that is written by that person A) Biography. B) Autobiography. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Autobiography. ← 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