This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 35 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 35 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the definition for figurative language? A) When an author hints at a plot event that will occur later in the story. B) Words or expressions with a non-literal meaning. Used to give a deeper understanding to the reader. C) The AUTHOR'S feeling about a topic in the literature (negative, critical, humorous, sympathetic). D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Words or expressions with a non-literal meaning. Used to give a deeper understanding to the reader. 2. Define oxymoron: A) Words that sound like the sound they are trying to convey-name or word imitating the sound associated with the thing designated. B) Comparisons, descriptions, & figures of speech that help the mind to form forceful or beautiful pictures. C) Human qualities given to an object or thing. D) Joining of two contradictory terms. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Joining of two contradictory terms. 3. "A dragonfly, a brilliant blue jewel, darted up and paused over the lily pads." A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 4. "Read between the lines" is an example of ..... A) Idiom. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 5. The attitude the writer takes towards the audience, subject, or a character A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Paradox. D) Point of view. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 6. When what happens in a story is vastly different from what the reader expected to happen A) Shocking Irony. B) Unusual Irony. C) Situational Irony. D) Confounding Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Situational Irony. 7. The literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests. A) Denotation. B) Dialogue. C) Connotation. D) Dialect. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Denotation. 8. Occurs when two contradictory words are together in one phrase. A) Oxymoron. B) Allusion. C) Flashback. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron. 9. Which is an example of dialogue? A) My teacher wasn't a good one. He was mean and strict and never let people go to the bathroom. B) Chloe is my babysitter. She is the 16-year-old daughter of my neighbor who comes over on weekends. C) I was watching TV when my mom said, "Start getting ready in 30 minutes. We have to leave out of here at 11.". D) He had a secret that he couldn't admit to anyone:he has seen Mean Girls 1, 200 times. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) I was watching TV when my mom said, "Start getting ready in 30 minutes. We have to leave out of here at 11.". 10. "People didn't know what to do. A few clapped. Most just sat there, their mouths hanging open like dead fish." (from Joan Bauer's Rules of the Road)What literary device is being used here? A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Parallelism. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 11. If Speak ended with poetic justice, how would it end? A) Andy would be punished and Melinda would be able to heal. B) Melinda would get punished and no one would know what Andy did. C) Andy and Melinda would become close friends. D) Melinda would start dating David, but Andy would never get punished. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Andy would be punished and Melinda would be able to heal. 12. Repetition of an initial consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Tone. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 13. Which is the most effective topic sentence? A) First of all, the writer uses satire to display his disbelief at the low quality food. B) First of all, Rayner shows his disbelief when he writes, "Other things are the stuff of therapy.". C) Disbelief is when you don't believe something because it is so shocking. D) First of all, disbelief is the first thing that happens. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) First of all, the writer uses satire to display his disbelief at the low quality food. 14. Star, heavens A) Astro. B) Geo. C) Graph. D) Meter. E) Bull. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Astro. 15. "I absolutely adore the sight of children playing!" A) Tone-delightful. B) Tone-irritated. C) Simile. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone-delightful. 16. Which one of the following is a noun? A) Jump. B) Cat. C) Run. D) Hop. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cat. 17. That fat cat weighs a thousand pounds! This is an example of ..... A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 18. What does cross-dressing allow Portia to do? A) Provide comic relief. B) Attracts Bassanio. C) Trick her friends. D) Assume power and position. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Assume power and position. 19. Which literary device is shown here?13 ad Styga Taenaria est ausus descendere porta A) Simile. B) Polyptoton. C) Tmesis. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metonymy. 20. A word's dictionary definition is called ..... A) Connotation. B) Denotation. C) Direct characterization. D) Indirect characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Denotation. ← 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