This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 336 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 336 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Often used in warnings or promises A) Cause and effect. B) Comparison. C) Illustration. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cause and effect. 2. Conflict is the struggle or clash between opposing characters, forces, or emotions. The types of conflict are: A) Man vs. man, man vs. animal, man vs. self, man vs. nature, man vs. job. B) Man vs. man, man vs. society, man vs. nature, man vs. job, man vs. machine. C) Man vs. man, man vs. society, man vs. machine, man vs. nature, man vs. self. D) Man vs. self, man vs. man, man vs. animal, man vs. machine, man vs. environment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Man vs. man, man vs. society, man vs. machine, man vs. nature, man vs. self. 3. The most exciting part of the story is called the ..... A) Setting. B) Exposition. C) Climax. D) Rising Action. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Climax. 4. "May day delay" is an example of what? A) Repetition. B) Consonance. C) Rhyme. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme. 5. My alarm clock yells at me in the morning A) Idiom. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 6. The phrase 'time flies' is an example of ..... A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 7. Pepsi, it gives you wings. A) Hyperbolic. B) Hyperbole. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 8. The poetic form that mourns the dead and is sorrowful in tone is ..... A) Free verse. B) Elegy. C) Sonnet. D) Lyric. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Elegy. 9. What two other literary devices does interplay combine? A) Anaphora and anadiplosis. B) Anaphora and epistrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anaphora and epistrophe. 10. "To me alone there came a thought of grief" A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Pun. D) Inversion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Inversion. 11. Which literary device compares two things using "like" or "as" ? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 12. What is this an example of? My love is like a red, red rose. A) Allusion. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 13. What is "a figure of speech which compares two things without using 'like' or 'as' ''? A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 14. The use of words or a situation that is opposite that what we expect to happen A) Irony. B) Allusion. C) Foreshadowing. D) Understatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irony. 15. He's really on the ball today. A) Hyperbole. B) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Idiom. 16. The sequence of events and happenings that make up a story. A) Tone. B) Theme. C) Plot. D) Motif. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Plot. 17. What is being used here?:Life is a highway A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Connotation. D) Characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 18. What technique is being used in the following passage:The moon was a silver ship sailing through the sea. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 19. The sheriff carried a shield shaped like a star. A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. E) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 20. Noah, Lily, and Grace are writing a story for their English class. From whose perspective should they tell the story to make it more engaging? A) All of the above. B) First person (Noah's perspective). C) Second person (Lily's perspective). D) Third person (Grace's perspective). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) All of the above. ← 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