This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 315 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 315 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which literary device is being used in the sentence, "The flowers nodded their heads in agreement" ? A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 2. The assembly was like watching grass grow. This means: A) Not very much happened at the assembly. B) The assembly was interesting. C) The principal at the assembly was like a grass. D) The assembly was green. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Not very much happened at the assembly. 3. My dad is a clown, always joking around and acting goofier than anyone I know. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 4. Particular word order forming an ABBA arrangement A) Chiasmus. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Synchysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chiasmus. 5. Words spelled the way they sound A) Onomatopoeia. B) Onamatopia. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Onamotopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 6. What is the difference between the falling action and resolution? A) The falling action is where the conflict starts to improve, and in the resolution the conflict is getting worse. B) The falling action is when the character solves the conflict, and the resolution is when the character is attempting to solve the problem. C) The falling action is where the characters are introduced, and the resolution is where the characters change in some way. D) The falling action is when the conflict is getting better, and the resolution is when the conflict is completely solved. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The falling action is when the conflict is getting better, and the resolution is when the conflict is completely solved. 7. "The coffee shop smelled of coffee, yet it tasted like grain. He set his eyes on the beans before hearing them falter to the blender; the air was clear." A) Adjectives. B) Sensory words. C) Imagery. D) Metaphor. E) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 8. "Millions of hands and feet were marching toward the refrigerator door" is an example of A) Litotes. B) Understatement. C) Synecdoche. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Synecdoche. 9. "Ozma took the arm of her hostess, but Dorothy lagged behind. When at last she rejoined Glinda and Ozma in the hall, she found them talking earnestly about the condition of the people, and how to make them more happy and contented-although they were already the happiest and most contented folks in all the world. This interested Ozma, of course, but it didn't interest Dorothy very much, so the little girl ran over to the big table on which was lying open Glinda's Great Book of Records." Ozma of Oz by Frank L. Baum A) First Person. B) Second Person. C) Third Person Limited. D) Third Person Omniscient. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Third Person Omniscient. 10. What is our Inference equation? A) Observe + Inference = Schema. B) Schema + Observe = Inference. C) Observe + Schema = Inference. D) Inference + Schema + Observe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Observe + Schema = Inference. 11. When a character has a problem with any force of nature, including setting, weather, etc. A) Man vs. Nature conflict. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Man vs. Nature conflict. 12. POV:the story is addressed to a "you, " generally assumed it actually refers to the narrator him/herself. A) 1st person. B) 2nd person. C) 3rd person. D) Hybrid. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2nd person. 13. Brush that aside and shake it off. A) Irony. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 14. Clues or hints that something will happen later A) Foreshadowing. B) Alliteration. C) Allusion. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foreshadowing. 15. Narrator is all-knowing and can tell thoughts and feelings of everyone is known as which point of view? A) 3rd person omniscient. B) 3rd person limited. C) 1st person POV. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 3rd person omniscient. 16. Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. (Ex:I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!) A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 17. What is the development of a character's traits throughout a story called? A) Characterization. B) Conflict. C) Point of view. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Characterization. 18. The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Repetition. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 19. Sorry, I thought you knew that John kicked the bucket. I figured somebody told you knew he bit thhe dust. A) Euphemism. B) Tautology. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tautology. 20. Your teeth are like stars, They shine at night.Choose the simile from these lines. A) Your teeth. B) Your teeth are like stars. C) They shine at night. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Your teeth are like stars. ← 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