This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 366 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 366 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The "all knowing" narrator knows all of the details about events, characters, etc. and reveals them to the reader as the story unfolds. A) Omniscient narration. B) Limited narration. C) First person. D) Third person. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Omniscient narration. 2. The moon was smiling and the wind was whispering to us. A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Alliteration. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 3. A couple has how many lines ..... A) 3. B) 4. C) 1. D) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 2. 4. What is a writer's "tone" ? A) Opinion. B) Singing voice. C) Attitude towards the topic. D) Mental pictures. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Attitude towards the topic. 5. What is the kind of character in drama which has a strong contrast to another character? A) Caricature. B) Foil. C) Stereotype. D) Archetype. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foil. 6. Author tells us exactly what the character is like A) Indirect characterization. B) Direct characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Direct characterization. 7. Which of the following is not a noun? A) Person. B) Place. C) Action. D) Thing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Action. 8. A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them. (a) A) A Analogy. B) Allusion. C) Alliteration. D) Dramatic irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A Analogy. 9. "Shoba walked over to the framed corkboard that hung on the wall by the fridge, bare except for a calendar of William Morris wallpaper patterns"Could be an example of A) Assonance. B) Motif. C) Hyperbole. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 10. Which of the following choices is NOT an example of onomatopoeia? A) BARK. B) CRASH. C) DOVE. D) WHEE. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) DOVE. 11. We were wrapped in jackets like pigs in blankets. A) Metaphor. B) Allusion. C) Simile. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 12. This is the end of the central conflict of the story. A) Exposition. B) Resolution. C) Falling Action. D) Rising Action. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Resolution. 13. "An echo rose from within-it was crystal clearAnd I could hear it calling to me." -What figurative language is this? A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 14. Which of the following is NOT a part of the power paragraph? A) Claim. B) Exposition. C) Explanation. D) Evidence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exposition. 15. Emmett woke up early and got ready for school. He had to take a test before first period. Emmett knew that Oscar would be waiting for him in the hallway after he finished the test. Oscar wanted to know what was on the test, but Emmett had to decide if he should tell him or if that would be cheating. A) External Conflict:Character v. Character. B) Internal Conflict:Character v. Self. C) External Conflict:Character v. Nature. D) External Conflict:Character v. Society. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Internal Conflict:Character v. Self. 16. People started running like ants. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Apostrophe. E) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 17. Short events are linked to one another by common characters, places, or a unified theme but are held apart by their individual plot, purpose and subtext. A) Linear plot. B) Episodic plot. C) Cumulative plot. D) Circular plot. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Episodic plot. 18. Words used in a special way that are different from their literal meaning. Used as a phrase. A) Metaphor. B) Idiom. C) Literal. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Idiom. 19. Which of the following is the best example of an oxymoron? A) Lesser of two evils. B) One way street. C) Be yourself. D) Act naturally. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Act naturally. 20. What is imagery produced by? A) Descriptive language. B) Denotation. C) Connotation. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Descriptive language. ← 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