This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 354 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 354 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What does explicit mean in a writing context? A) Something does not have meaning in the text. B) Meaning that is never stated in the text. C) Meaning that is clearly expressed or fully stated in the actual text. D) The opposite of imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Meaning that is clearly expressed or fully stated in the actual text. 2. The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.Eg 'sweet birds sang' A) Dialogue. B) Alliteration. C) Allegory. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 3. Does not change during the course of the story. A) Round character. B) Flat character. C) Static character. D) Dynamic character. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Static character. 4. Event A) The last event of the story which tells how the story ends; it explains whether the main character met his/her challenge. B) What happens in a story, told in a sequenced, chronological order. C) An action in a story that moves the story forward, usually something happens to the main character, etc. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An action in a story that moves the story forward, usually something happens to the main character, etc. 5. True or False-Symbolism is the practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character. (If you get this wrong that's just sad.) A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 6. What is the purpose of using foreshadowing? A) To distract the reader. B) To define character traits. C) To add dramatic tension. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To add dramatic tension. 7. Choose the correct alliteration example A) From the wheelchair of the rest of my days. B) Like skies at night. C) Stand and stare. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stand and stare. 8. Descriptive and figurative language to create a picture in the reader's mind, especially referring to the senses. A) Imagery. B) Simile. C) Rhyme. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 9. The repetition of words that begin with the same sound A) Extended metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 10. A situation in which a character must choose between two course of action, both undesirable A) Mystery. B) Inversion. C) Dilemma. D) Motivation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dilemma. 11. A figure of speech which contains word that contradicts with each other is called ..... A) Hyperbole. B) Metonymy. C) Oxymoron. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oxymoron. 12. Identify the type of irony:In Toy Story, human characters are not aware that the toys speak and move, but the audience is. A) Situational Irony. B) Verbal Irony. C) Dramatic Irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dramatic Irony. 13. A story or tale with two or more levels of meaning:a literal and one or more symbolic levels A) Allegory. B) Idiom. C) Diction. D) Nuance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allegory. 14. Which literary device is used in the sentence:'The moonlight danced on the water'? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 15. Identify the following literary device in the passage: "What is indifference? Etymologically, the word means "no difference." A strange and unnatural state in which the lines blur between light and darkness, dusk and dawn, crime and punishment, cruelty and compassion, good and evil" (Weisel 2). A) Hyperbole. B) Anaphora. C) Idiom. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Juxtaposition. 16. Literary devices apply to ..... A) Individual words and short phrases. B) Whole sentences and long phrases. C) The entire structure of a piece. D) Any of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Any of the above. 17. "She did not realize that opportunity was knocking at her door" is ..... A) Personification. B) Paradox. C) Oxymoron. D) Malapropism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 18. Who killed Macbeth? A) Banquo. B) Macduff. C) Lady Macbeth. D) A weasel. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Macduff. 19. The fable "The Tortoise and the Hare" is an example of this. A) Allusion. B) Paradox. C) Irony. D) Allegory. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allegory. 20. When and where a story (or scene of a story) takes place is the A) Setting. B) Characterization. C) Plot. D) None of above. 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