This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 360 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 360 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The repetition of the same sound within nearby words. Usually the repetition of consonants at the beginning of a word. Ex:Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A) Parallelism. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Epistrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 2. Find the simple predicate in the following sentence:The lonely sheep went bowling on Tuesday. A) Lonely. B) Sheep. C) Went. D) Bowling. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Went. 3. In Greek mythology, a mythical bird called the phoenix lives for hundreds of years before bursting into flames at its death. However, it soon rises from its own ashes and is reborn. What is the meaning of the allusion in the sentence below? Fans debated whether their team would rise from the ashes. A) To come back after destruction or defeat. B) To surprise an opponent. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To come back after destruction or defeat. 4. Alice's adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do:once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book, " thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?" So she was considering, in her own mind whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her. A) Third-limited. B) First-person. C) Third-objective. D) Third-omniscient. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Third-limited. 5. Which is a form of Personification? A) The dog barked as I walked by him. B) The wind blew my hair as I took a walk downtown. C) June, July, and August are summer months. D) Crying is medicine for me. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The wind blew my hair as I took a walk downtown. 6. A warning or indication of a future event in a narrative A) Foreshadowing. B) Flashback. C) Theme. D) Climax. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foreshadowing. 7. The turning point or most exciting part of the story is called ..... A) Resolution. B) Exposition. C) Rising Action. D) Climax. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Climax. 8. Spoken lines between characters A) Dialogue. B) Episode. C) Event. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dialogue. 9. Which of the following is used in the sentence? When his team lost, Lindell was a big baby. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. E) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 10. "It was a mountain of gleaming metal that towered high above the children and their parents." A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Idiom. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 11. Figurative languageWord groups/phrases used in a way that differ from the expected or everyday usage. They are used in a non-literal way for particular effect (for example:simile-'white as a sheet'; metaphor-'all the world's a stage'; personification-'the wind grabbed at my clothes'). A) Author. B) Text. C) Context. D) Audience. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Text. 12. What is this:She is a beautiful flower. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 13. I leaped out the window and heard timber crashing and the flames roaring right behind me. I staggered, almost falling, coughing and sobbing for breath. A) Imagery. B) Simile. C) Irony. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 14. The bacon sizzled in the pan. A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Onomatopoeia. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 15. Attempting to expose or criticize the corruption or foolishness of a person/society. A) Satire. B) Suspense. C) Theme. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Satire. 16. My bed flipped and went BAM!!! A) Namespace. B) Simile. C) Idiom. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Namespace. 17. Green Day:I walk this empty street On the Boulevard of broken dreams Where the city sleeps And I'm the only one and I walk alone A) Personification, simile. B) Metaphor, personification, irony. C) Imagery, metaphor, alliteration. D) Metaphor, personification, imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor, personification, imagery. 18. Reference to another work of art, literature, etc. A) Ballad. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 19. We can't buy that; it costs an arm and a leg! A) Idiom. B) Oxymoron. C) Euphemism. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 20. A comparison of two things in which no word of comparison (like or as) is used. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 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