This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 320 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 320 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference, especially to something/someone in history, pop culture, or literature. A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Allusion. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 2. Which literary device is referred to in the example?"Animal Farm" is a political ..... for the Russian Revolution. A) Allegory. B) Oxymoron. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allegory. 3. What is the best definition of symbolism? A) Tool used by the author to enliven and provide voice to the text. B) A device in literature when an object or thing represents an idea. C) An implied or indirect reference in literature to a familiar or famous person, place, or event. D) An exaggeration or overstatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A device in literature when an object or thing represents an idea. 4. Which of the following is assonance? A) The lion roared like thunder. B) The cat sat on the mat. C) She sells sea shells by the seashore. D) The clock struck midnight. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The cat sat on the mat. 5. The background of the play. A) Props. B) Set. C) Stage Direction. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Set. 6. The character who causes the conflict the main character must face A) Antagonist. B) Protagonist. C) Round character. D) Static character. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antagonist. 7. Compares two things that have similar characteristics. A) Anaphora. B) Analogy. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Analogy. 8. Which point of view allows the reader to find out what all of the characters do, know, think, and witness? A) First Person. B) Third Person Limited. C) Third Person Omniscient. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Third Person Omniscient. 9. "Tens of millions of years of faces in a living room in a place called Arizona" (75).(1 answer) A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Onomatopoeia. E) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Hyperbole. 10. The process by which a writer makes the personal qualities of the characters in a story clear and believable is known as which literary device? A) Indirect characterization. B) Direct characterization. C) Characterization. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Characterization. 11. When a writer refers to a well-known person, event, or place to make a comparison, it is called: A) Allegory. B) Alliteration. C) Allusion. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 12. My heart beats a million times when I see you. A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 13. Is used in the literature to present a comparison by including the word 'as', 'like'. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 14. Another word for "bad dad jokes" is A) Pun. B) Analogy. C) Metaphor. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pun. 15. Which order do we use in class to explain the plot? A) Egg, Chicken & Farmer, Fried Chicken. B) Egg, Harry Potter, Cry. C) Fried Chicken, chicken marries the farmer, egg. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Egg, Chicken & Farmer, Fried Chicken. 16. Have a great weekend A) . B) ?. C) !. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) !. 17. Which poetic device is used in the sentence below? My car is a billion years old, I'm surprised it still turns on. A) Personification. B) Alliteration. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 18. What poetic device is used in: "The woods are lovely dark and deepBut I have promises to keepAnd miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep." A) Alliteration. B) Symbolism. C) Repetition. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 19. Which of the following answers is a correct example of Point of View in "Convenience Store Woman" by Sayaka Murata? A) The story is told from the perspective of a convenience store worker. B) The story is told from the perspective of a customer. C) The story is told from the perspective of the store manager. D) The story is told from the perspective of a convenience store. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The story is told from the perspective of a convenience store worker. 20. A story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities A) Allegory. B) Anecdote. C) Satire. D) Tone. 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