This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 331 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 331 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. This device is the central idea of a work of literature: A) Theme. B) Tone. C) Purpose. D) Style. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme. 2. A figure of speech in which an animal, object or idea is given a personality and described as a human. A) Simile. B) Epithet. C) Antagonist. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 3. Figure of thought:One of the two major divisions of figures of speech (the other being rhetorical figures). A) Trope. B) Hyperbaton. C) Mood. D) Peripheresis. E) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Trope. 4. Which example below is an oxymoron? A) Pretty beautiful. B) Pretty tasty. C) Pretty small. D) Pretty ugly. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pretty ugly. 5. The specific choice of words used to help determine the style in which the person is speaking or writing A) Lyrics. B) Verse. C) Diction. D) Dialect. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Diction. 6. '"But there's a catch ..... by the end of the year you must figure out how to make your object say something, express an emotion, speak to everyone who looks at it" ' (12) A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 7. Clues that hint at what's to come A) Repetition. B) Foreshadowing. C) Cliche. D) Climax. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foreshadowing. 8. Macbeth kills Duncan and then almost immediately decides that someone else must die because of the witches predictions. Who? A) Malcolm. B) Macduff. C) Banquo. D) Lady Macbeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Banquo. 9. The recording or re-creation of a character's flow of thought A) Ambiguity. B) Foreshadowing. C) Stream of Consciousness. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stream of Consciousness. 10. When you say one thing, but mean the opposite A) Generalization. B) Dialect. C) Tone. D) Sarcasm. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sarcasm. 11. Author gives a hint as to what is to come later on in the story A) Imagery. B) Simile. C) Foreshadowing. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Foreshadowing. 12. MY BREAKES SCREECHED TO A STOP AT THE RED LIGHT ..... A) ALLITERATION. B) SIMILE. C) NAME REGISTRATION. D) PERSONIFICATION. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) NAME REGISTRATION. 13. When you are analyzing poetry and you're trying to find the meaning beyond the literal meaning of the words, you are looking at the ..... A) Rhyme Scheme. B) Theme. C) Connotation. D) Denotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Connotation. 14. What is the name of Ben Tang's store? A) Ben's Love Shack. B) BTS Forever. C) BT Snake. D) BT Reptile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) BT Reptile. 15. The act of repeating (an event, word, sound, etc) A) Rhythm. B) Repetition. C) Simile. D) Pattern. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. 16. The meaning/emotions associated with a word A) Denotation. B) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Connotation. 17. What is this:He is as happy as a clam A) Metaphor. B) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 18. Highest point of emotional intensity in the plot. A) Suspense. B) Climax. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Climax. 19. At 3 p.m. Jorge said, "I'm STARVING. I haven't eaten since lunch." A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 20. The character struggles against an outside force. A) External conflict. B) Internal conflict. C) Big conflict. D) Central conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) External conflict. ← 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