This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 339 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 339 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Her smile is like sunshine A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Alliteration. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 2. Characters who are highly involved in the plot; protagonist and antagonist fall into this category A) Main characters. B) Minor characters. C) Foils. D) Stereotypes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Main characters. 3. Definition:Foreshadowing is ..... A) The main idea in a text. B) A play about ridiculous and absurd situations. C) A clue or hint at events that will occur later in the plot. D) A contradiction between what is said and what is meant. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A clue or hint at events that will occur later in the plot. 4. This is the most exciting part of the story. It is the peak of tension, plot, and character in the story. A) Conclusion. B) Climax. C) Rising Action. D) Falling Action. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Climax. 5. A character in a literary work who opposes or actively goes against the main character. A) Protagonist. B) Antagonist. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antagonist. 6. Examples of transition words used in a rhetorical shift. A) His / hers. B) And / in addition. C) But / however. D) Then / after. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) But / however. 7. What is the definition of malapropism? A) The definition of malapropism is the mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding word. B) The definition of malapropism is the intentional use of a word in place of a similar-sounding word. C) The definition of malapropism is the mistaken use of a word in place of a completely unrelated word. D) The definition of malapropism is the correct use of a word in place of a similar-sounding word. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The definition of malapropism is the mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding word. 8. Hickory Dickory Dock; the mouse ran up the clock. A) Rhyme. B) Repetition. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 9. What sense is being engaged most in this example:cinnamon-scented candle reminded of the Big Red gum my father chewed A) Touch. B) Taste. C) Sight. D) Smell. E) Hearing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Smell. 10. Which is an example of FORSHADOWING? A) The end of a season finale on TV where we don't know who died and can't find out until next season. B) In Hatchet, when Brian dropped the hatchet in the lake, and we didn't know if he'd get it. C) In Hatchet, the pilot having severe chest pains and gas. D) Brian, from Hatchet, remembering what he saw his mother doing with a stranger. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In Hatchet, the pilot having severe chest pains and gas. 11. "He saw nothing and heard nothing but he could feel his heart pounding and then he heard the clack on stone and the leaping, dropping clicks of a small rock falling." A) Metaphor. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Personification. D) Sound Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 12. The repetition of the sound at the beginning of a word (ex. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.) A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Setting. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 13. An unexpected turn in the story that provides a new view or a new conflict is called a ..... A) Plot twist. B) Flashback. C) Conflict. D) Plot diagram. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plot twist. 14. What do we call the when an author makes an indirect reference to a figure, place, event, or idea originating from outside the text? A) Flashback. B) Allusion. C) Irony. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 15. A character that experiences a change throughout a text. A) Static Character. B) Dynamic Character. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dynamic Character. 16. I know one thing, that I know nothing is an example of A) Allusion. B) Paradox. C) Irony. D) Metonym. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paradox. 17. An example of dramatic irony is A) The audience knows Juliet is just asleep but Romeo thinks she's killed herself. B) A fire station burns down. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The audience knows Juliet is just asleep but Romeo thinks she's killed herself. 18. When the character is speaking to you in the piece of literature A) Conflict. B) Resolution. C) 2nd person point of view. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 2nd person point of view. 19. Seeing slithering snakes makes my spine shiver.Select the correct answer. A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 20. In the meantime the sky begins with a great murmur of confusion, followed by a cloud mixed with hail, and the Counts of Tyria here and there, and the Trojan youth, and the grandson of Venus, fleeing in fear through the various fields; rivers rush down from the mountains. What literary device is found in lines 162-163? A) Anaphora. B) Multi-connectors. C) Tmesis. D) Litotes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Multi-connectors. ← 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