This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 347 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 347 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In "The Landlady" the conflict between the landlady and Billy is: A) Man vs. Self. B) Man. vs. Man. C) Man vs. Nature. D) Man vs. Society. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Man. vs. Man. 2. "Oxymorons are designed to have dramatic effect" A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 3. Bob brought the box of bricks to the basement. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 4. A literary technique in which words or events convey a meaning opposite to their literal interpretation. A) Irony. B) Symbolism. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irony. 5. A non-literal phrase that has a meaning apart from the meanings of its individual words (i.e. having "a frog in your throat") A) Idioms. B) Unreliable narrator. C) Dramatic irony. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idioms. 6. A narrator who knows everything about the characters A) Omniscient narrator. B) Foreshadowing. C) Point of view. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Omniscient narrator. 7. John jumped in the pool with a big SPLASH. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 8. What are the three things lost in "Second childishness" ? A) Teeth, eyes and teeth. B) Breath, smell, hearing. C) Hearing, strength and appetite. D) Love, happiness and wealth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Teeth, eyes and teeth. 9. The two terms pummel and banish are rough and tough. Which of the following two terms show vulnerability and weakness? A) Wither and conspicuous. B) Tyrannical and cower. C) Cower and wither. D) Condescend and clarify. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cower and wither. 10. This type of narrator is all-knowing: A) Limited. B) First person. C) Second person. D) Omniscient. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Omniscient. 11. The use of clues to hint at something important that will happen later in a novel or story A) Foreshadowing. B) Parallelism. C) Tone. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foreshadowing. 12. The following is an example of a ..... "Although it started to rain, we were able to ride our bikes for a little while." A) Complete sentence. B) Run on sentence. C) Sentence fragment. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Complete sentence. 13. Descriptive language which uses one or more of the five senses is called ..... A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 14. The comedian was seriously funny. A) Oxymoron. B) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron. 15. The main idea/message of a literary work is ..... A) Theme. B) Metaphor. C) Tone. D) Situational irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme. 16. Something is expressed less strongly than would be expected A) Foreshadowing. B) Allusion. C) Understatement. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Understatement. 17. While I was running down the road, I tripped and fell up to the roof top. A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Irony. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oxymoron. 18. 'Walking into grandma's house, I was immediately greeted by the warm, inviting scent of freshly baked bread and cinnamon.'Which device is this sentence? A) Ellipses. B) Rhetorical device. C) Symbol. D) Olfactory imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Olfactory imagery. 19. But a better butter makes a batter better A) Hyperbole. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 20. The repetition of vowel sounds in the middle of words. A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. ← 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