This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 348 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 348 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Jimmy and Eric compete for the same position on the baseball team. A) Person vs person. B) Person vs self. C) Person vs nature. D) Person vs society. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Person vs person. 2. What is the term?A word that imitates the sound it represents A) Assertion. B) Hyperbole. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 3. A hint of what will happen in the future A) Mood. B) Flashback. C) Deja vu. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Foreshadowing. 4. TRUE OR FALSE:a story can ONLY have one theme A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FALSE. 5. Those cute chesire cats chased the tops and marbles. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Repetition. E) Alliteration . Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Alliteration . 6. Sermon A) A historical account or biography written from personal knowledge or special sources. B) A speech that contains religious references that reflects on morals. C) Public speaking to an audience about a certain topic or idea. (talking as a use of communication). D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A speech that contains religious references that reflects on morals. 7. I smelled the burning and heard a horrible crackling as the fire singed my hair and eyelashes. A) Tone. B) Irony. C) Simile. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 8. Identify the literary device used in the following sentence:'I've told you a million times!' A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 9. Allegory is a type of extended ..... in which everything and everyone represents something else. A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 10. Which definition is correct for the following term:Personification A) When human qualities are attributed, or given, to non-human things. B) The author's attitude toward the writing; the way feelings are expressed. C) The moral or lesson the author communicates through the story's plot. D) The feeling readers get from reading; the overall atmosphere, or feeling, of the story. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) When human qualities are attributed, or given, to non-human things. 11. O, Life, why are you so hard?Select the correct answer. A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Assonance. D) Apostrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Apostrophe. 12. When a character recalls an important event from the past is called A) Foreshadowing. B) Exposition. C) Flashback. D) Resolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Flashback. 13. Your love is cancer, death personified is an example of A) Simile. B) Octave. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 14. What type of literary device is found in the following quite: "My mother's hair, like little rosettes, like little candy circles all curly and pretty because she pinned it in pincurls allday ..... " (6). A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 15. Polyptoton A) He came to Aeolia, the land of the wild beasts of the East. B) He who is absent hears and sees him. C) They are going after Laocoon with a certain train. D) I, follow the winds of Italy, seek kingdoms through the waves. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He who is absent hears and sees him. 16. The opposite happens from what you are expecting A) Irony. B) Pun. C) Simile. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irony. 17. The words like and as are A) Words that suggest extreme exaggeration. B) Words used in a metaphor. C) Words that mean the oppposite. D) Comparative words. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Comparative words. 18. Narrator is speaking about him or herself; uses pronouns such as "I, " "me, " "we, " "us" A) First person. B) Second person. C) Third person limited. D) Third person omniscient. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) First person. 19. A figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses an absent person or a personified quality, object, or idea A) Point of view. B) Personification. C) Apostrophe. D) Litotes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Apostrophe. 20. What literary device is present below? Mr. Ordway snores louder than a frieght train. A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Pun. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. ← 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