This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 365 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 365 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which literary device is used in the sentence 'Both girls had curly hair, blue eyes, and ready smiles'? A) Comparison. B) Repetition. C) Parallel structure. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Comparison. 2. When giving a human characteristic to an animal, object, or idea. A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 3. Read the quote and determine if it is direct characterization or indirect characterization: "He glanced at her face-her eyes, which were honey brown, and her nose, which crinkled when she smiled." A) Direct characterization. B) Indirect characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Direct characterization. 4. 'Go slow over the road' is ..... A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Cesura. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 5. The perspective from which the writer tells the story (1st, 2nd, 3rd person; omniscient, limited omniscient A) Rhyme. B) Theme. C) Figurative Language. D) Point of View. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Point of View. 6. When splitting up scenes in a story that is called? A) Timeline. B) Regionalism. C) Horrible movie. D) Flashbacks. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Flashbacks. 7. What is the purpose of a flashback in a story? A) To provide background information. B) To reveal the resolution. C) To create suspense. D) To introduce a new character. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To provide background information. 8. Which literary device makes a comparison by calling a person or object by the name of a different object? A) Inference. B) Dramatic irony. C) Symbolism. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 9. An adjective or adjective phrase applied to a person or thing that is frequently used to emphasize a characteristic quality A) Personification. B) Imagery. C) Drama. D) Epithet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Epithet. 10. Which type of imagery is associated with the sense of touch? A) Auditory. B) Visual. C) Gustatory. D) Tactile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tactile. 11. Miss K is taking a summer class. What is it about? A) Education. B) Cooking. C) Shakespeare. D) Victorian Literature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shakespeare. 12. "Erna Schmidt was the exact opposite of her husband-a shy, petite woman, she was sensitive, and not entirely lacking in culture." is an example of what term. A) Foreshadowing. B) Dramatic irony. C) Indirect characterization. D) Direct characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Direct characterization. 13. What are statistics? A) Facts that can be measured. B) Facts that can be written out. C) Facts that can be argued. D) Numbers that can not be verified. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Facts that can be measured. 14. How are tone and mood related? A) They are not related. B) Mood is all the words the author writes and it makes us feel stuff and then the reader sets a tone. C) Tone creates the mood the reader is feeling through the author's word choice. D) Mood creates the tone through how the reader is feeling. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tone creates the mood the reader is feeling through the author's word choice. 15. Find the hyperbole in the following sentences: A) I'm not hungry at all. B) I'm so full I can't eat another bite. C) I could dinner now. D) I could eat a horse. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) I could eat a horse. 16. A figure of speech commonly used to replace a word or phrase that is related to a concept that might make others uncomfortable. A) Hyperbole. B) Figurative Language. C) Euphemism. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Euphemism. 17. "The air was bitter and bit into her skin." This sentence uses ..... A) Flashback. B) Symbolism. C) Imagery. D) Personification. E) Foreshadowing tagsCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.4. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 18. The juxtaposition of opposing or contrasting ideas through an obvious contrast in the words, clauses, or sentences, within a parallel grammatical structure. A) Tone. B) Allegory. C) Antithesis. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Antithesis. 19. A brief reference to a person, event, place, or thing of historical or literary significance. A) Personification. B) Imagery. C) Allusion. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 20. "No matter how much Peter loved her, what made the Pan refuse to grow is that the Hook brings you back" is an example of? A) Simile. B) Allusion. C) Metaphor. D) Apostrophe. 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