This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 36 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 36 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Define:ASSONANCE? A) A joke that is a play on words. B) A comparison using the words "Like or "as" . C) The repetition of vowel sounds in a sentence. D) The repetition of consonant sounds in a sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The repetition of vowel sounds in a sentence. 2. What is the time and place of a story, movie, or novel? A) Setting. B) Point of view. C) Imagery. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Setting. 3. What is the tone of a poem or literary work? A) Attitude or mood. B) Characters or themes. C) Setting or location. D) Plot or storyline. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Attitude or mood. 4. The intentional repeating of a sound, word, phrase, line, or idea in order to create a sense of importance. A) Repetition. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration . Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 5. A type of figurative language that gives human characteristics to inanimate objects A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 6. You are reading a story that makes you feel scared and that's what the author wanted, what is this an example of? A) Mood/Tone. B) Theme. C) Flashback. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mood/Tone. 7. What literary device is used in this line: "Go slow over the road." A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 8. Words such as "crack", "hum", and "buzz" are examples ..... A) Metaphor. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 9. Something said in a way for ironic contrast A) Understatement. B) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Understatement. 10. The feeling or atmosphere that the writer creates through word choice A) Symbolism. B) Plot. C) Mood. D) Characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mood. 11. Hanging with you is as easy as pie A) Oxymoron. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 12. A literary device that reflects on repetition in two or more nearby words of initial consonant sounds. A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. C) Archetype. D) Characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 13. When the opposite of what you expect to happen is what happens A) Situational irony. B) Dramatic irony. C) Verbal irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Situational irony. 14. What is the malapropism in this example? "The doctor gave me a subscription for my allergies." A) Doctor. B) Subscription. C) Allergies. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Subscription. 15. What is a type of metaphor and is employed when non-human things, such as objects, animals, a feeling or an abstract idea, are given human attributes. A) Pun. B) Personification. C) Oxymoron. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 16. A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings. A) Opinion. B) Pun. C) Allusion. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pun. 17. What does a sloth symbolize? A) Wisdom. B) Laziness. C) Loyalty. D) Peace. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Laziness. 18. What type of literary device is used in the sentence 'Tim was a beast on the football field.'? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 19. "Pretty ugly" is an example of A) Paradox. B) Oxymoron. C) Hyperbole. D) Characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron. 20. What is true about "theme" ? A) The theme is the moral or lesson the story provides. B) The theme should always be written as a complete sentence. C) An example of theme could be "Trust is difficult to restore once lost.". D) All of these are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these are correct. ← 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