This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 368 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 368 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation A) Repetition. B) Connotations. C) Hyperbole. D) Colloquial. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Colloquial. 2. How do you determine an author's purpose and craft in fictional texts, and why is this analysis essential for a deeper understanding of the narrative? A) Determining an author's purpose is irrelevant in analyzing fiction. B) Analyzing an author's purpose and craft involves examining their choices in writing style, tone, and narrative techniques, which is important for a deeper understanding of the story. C) An author's purpose is always explicitly stated in the text. D) Author's purpose and craft can be found in non-fiction but not in fictional texts. . Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Analyzing an author's purpose and craft involves examining their choices in writing style, tone, and narrative techniques, which is important for a deeper understanding of the story. 3. What literary device is used in the phrase:'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers'? A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 4. Choose the correct option."I walked a million miles to get here." A) Imagery. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 5. "Military intelligence" and "jumbo shrimp" are examples of: A) Similes. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Personification. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oxymoron. 6. This device is a figure of speech that compares two things using "like" or "as": A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 7. "I might just fade into Bolivian." -Mike Tyson A) Malapropism. B) Euphemism. C) Oxymoron. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Malapropism. 8. When something unexpected happens in a story or other literary writing, this is known as A) Setting. B) Irony. C) Metaphor. D) Novel. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irony. 9. "Love is an endless river." In this line, love is being compared to a river, using: A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 10. "Peter pranced playfully around the playground" is an example of ..... A) Hyperbole. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 11. Repetition of vowel sounds across a line of text or poetry. A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Allegory. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 12. A struggle between two opposing forces, usually a protagonist and an antagonist. / A fight between two opposing forces, usually a protagonist and an antagonist. A) Imagery. B) Personification. C) Allegory. D) Conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Conflict. 13. When one syllable at the end of a word isn't pronounced, but is joined to the next syllable A) Elision. B) Allusion. C) Syncope. D) Chiasmus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Elision. 14. The reference to a subject matter like a person, place, event or literary work in a literary piece is a(n) A) Allusion. B) Allegory. C) Diction. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 15. The shelter was a circus of sights and sounds. What is the phrase in blue? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) None of these. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 16. Irony in which a person says or writes one thing and means another, or uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning A) Epithet. B) Foreshadowing. C) Imagery. D) Verbal irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Verbal irony. 17. She sells sea shells by the sea shore is an example of: A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 18. Which word is determined by the same letter assigned to the rhyming words at the end of each line? A) Rhyme scheme. B) Free verse. C) Narrative. D) Allusion. E) Limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme scheme. 19. "The cookie quickly looked brick-like in the oven, " is an example of A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Consonance. 20. Extreme use of exaggeration to create emphasis A) Hyperbole. B) Idiom. C) Simile. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. ← 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