This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 355 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 355 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is a character's attributes? A) Words used to describe a character's traits, feelings, or motivations. B) A character's problem or conflict. C) A character's clothing. D) A character's best friend. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Words used to describe a character's traits, feelings, or motivations. 2. A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind. Usually uses like or as.Eg His room was like a pig sty. A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Foreshadowing. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 3. Events after the turning point that begin to resolve the story A) Exposition. B) Rising action. C) Falling action. D) Resolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Falling action. 4. Words and phrases that paint a pictureand appeal to the readers 5 senses (sight, hearing, touch, smell or taste) A) Imagery. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. E) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 5. It rains on Mary's wedding day. A) Verbal. B) Situational. C) Dramatic. D) Not Ironic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Not Ironic. 6. Literary conflict (man vs. man, self, nature, etc.) is a ..... A) Literary Element. B) Literary Technique. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Literary Element. 7. It is also known as a rhetorical device. A) Literary Device. B) Computer device. C) Poetic Device. D) Dramatic device. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Literary Device. 8. Which of the following is NOT a form of conflict? A) Character vs. character. B) Character vs. self. C) Character vs. nature. D) All of the above are examples of conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above are examples of conflict. 9. "If Mrs. Butler or Sam is talking to me, I can't hear either of them. The only thing I hear is the sound of my own pulse pounding in my ears. The way it would if I'd run all the way back. Just the boom-boom-boom of my heart and the strange swish of the sprinkler next door. A shush-shush followed by a metallic rat-a-tat-tat. Like firecrackers going off" (48). Patterson, Valerie O. Operation Oleander. Boston:Clarion Books, 2013. A) Naming, simile. B) Personification, allusion. C) Metaphor, simile. D) Allusion, tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Naming, simile. 10. It was an open secret. A) Metaphor. B) Oxymoron. C) Hyperbole. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron. 11. A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables is called A) Tone. B) Rhyme. C) Meter. D) Wit. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Meter. 12. O Captain! My Captain! Rise up and hear the bells;Rise up-for you the flag is flung-for you the bugle blows ..... A) Metaphor. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Simile. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repetition. 13. The character or force that opposes the main character is called the ..... A) Protagonist. B) Antagonist. C) Dynamic Character. D) Static Character. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antagonist. 14. This can be demonstrated with descriptive details, clues in the dialogue, character/place names, etc. A) Foreshadowing. B) Plot. C) Climax. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foreshadowing. 15. Symbolism is when something in the text ..... something else. A) Makes. B) Mimics. C) Represents. D) Follows. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Represents. 16. What literary device is being used in the phrase 'The world is a stage'? A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 17. The comparison of two unlike things which no word of comparison (like or as) are used A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 18. To be in partnership with someone. A) Perilous. B) Cahoots. C) Glare. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cahoots. 19. "The leaves danced in the wind." This sentence is an example of ..... A) Imagery. B) Foreshadowing. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. E) Symbolism tagsCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.4. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 20. "The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed:It was past eight thirty and still light." A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. ← 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