This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 362 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 362 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. If a fire station would catch on fire, it would be an example of ..... irony. A) Verbal. B) Situational. C) Dramatic. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Situational. 2. It refers to an appeal made by a poet to a muse or deity for help in composing the poem. A) In medias res. B) Invocation. C) Long speeches. D) Hubris. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Invocation. 3. In the parable "The Story of the Pencil" , the ..... is the nondescript object that gives a powerful message. A) Pencil. B) Paper. C) Wooden stick. D) Umbrella. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pencil. 4. A comparison of two unlike things for the purposes of an explanation A) Allusion. B) Alliteration. C) Idiom. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Analogy. 5. Narrator will reveal more than one character's internal feelings. A) 3rd omniscient. B) 3rd limited. C) 2nd person. D) 1st person. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 3rd omniscient. 6. Buzz, slurp, click, and boom are examples of ..... A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Sight Imagery. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 7. Separation of noun adjective pair for dramatic effect. A) Anaphora. B) Alliteration. C) Hyperbaton. D) Synecdoche. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbaton. 8. O. Henry's REAL NAME is A) Dunder Mifflin. B) William Sydney Porter. C) Dollar General. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) William Sydney Porter. 9. A type of metaphor in which an object, idea, character, action, etc., is compared to another thing using the words "as" or "like." A) Epigraph. B) Symbolism. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 10. My mother is a machine. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 11. Repetition of the same word(s) at the beginning of successive clauses A) Alliteration. B) Anaphora. C) Allusion. D) Apostrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anaphora. 12. Pattern of rhyme A) Symbol. B) Stanza. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme scheme. 13. This is a conflict between people or groups of people. A) Man vs. self. B) Man vs. society. C) Man vs. man. D) Man vs. nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Man vs. man. 14. What is the main idea or lesson learned from the story called? A) Plot. B) Mood. C) Theme. D) Character. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theme. 15. Next Phoebe was surveying the lands with a lamp A) Personification. B) Oxymoron. C) Metonymy. D) Litotes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metonymy. 16. "Ask for me tomorrow, and you will find me a grave man." Keep in mind that Mercutio says this after he has been mortally wounded. (from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet)What literary device is being used in the above quote? A) Parallelism. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pun. 17. What literary device is:a reference to a well-known person, event, place, literary work, or work of art? A) Allusion. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 18. Which literary device uses the same word or phrase multiple times? A) Situational Irony. B) Metaphor. C) Repetition. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 19. Why is the house personified in the story? A) Because only the animals are seen in the story. B) Because the house does everything for the people so they're lazy. C) Because none of the characters ever speak. D) Because there are no human characters. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Because there are no human characters. 20. "On the days he carried the watch, Jem walked on eggs." -TKAM, Ch 7 A) Hyperbole. B) Idiom. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Idiom. ← 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