This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 38 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 38 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The repetition of consonant sounds at the end of words A) Consonance. B) Imagery. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consonance. 2. She sells sea shells on the sea shore A) Assonance. B) Rule of three. C) Sibilance. D) Sassiness. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sibilance. 3. Imagery which appeals to the sense of touch A) Tactile. B) Auditory. C) Visual. D) Olfactory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tactile. 4. A story told using the pronoun "I" in which the speaker DOES NOT know everything is called A) Third person limited. B) Third person omniscient. C) First person limited. D) First person omniscient. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) First person limited. 5. This literary device uses "like" or "as" to make a comparison A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 6. A combination of two words that, together, express a contradictory meaning. A) Oxymoron. B) Imagery. C) Euphemism. D) Allegory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron. 7. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader is ..... A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Drake's "In My Feelings". D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mood. 8. Which quote best reveals hyperbole? A) "There is only one thing worse than being served a terrible meal:being served a terrible meal by earnest waiters who have no idea just how awful the things they are doing to you are.". B) "There's a little gilt here and there, to remind us that this is a room designed for people for whom guilt is unfamiliar.". C) "Menus the height of Richard Osman are brought.". D) "It makes us yearn for a bowl of French onion soup.". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "Menus the height of Richard Osman are brought.". 9. Traveling from New York to Florida in January in order to avoid the cold weather but finding below-freezing temperatures once you arrived in Florida would be an example of: A) Dramatic irony. B) Good luck. C) Situational irony. D) Motion sickness. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Situational irony. 10. "I wandered lonely as a cloud"What literary device is used in this sentence? A) Symbol. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 11. Which of these examples is NOT an example of personification? A) The sun smiled down on us. B) The story jumped off the page. C) The ocean was calling his name. D) Money is the root of all evil. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Money is the root of all evil. 12. Vignettes need to be long to tell the story. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 13. "The voice was high and brittle, like dry twigs being broken, surely not one he had ever heard before." is an example of which literary device? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Imagery. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 14. Harry hurried home to watch football on TV. A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Allusion. D) Synecdoche. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 15. This type of text structure uses signal words like "first, " "after, " and "finally." A) Problem & solution. B) Compare & contrast. C) Cause & effect. D) Sequence. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sequence. 16. A literary device designed to illustrate or reveal information, traits values, or motivations of one character through the comparison and contrast of another character. A) Foil. B) Euphemsim. C) I don't know. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foil. 17. Which is the most effective sentence about the author, title and story? A) Jay Rayner's review of "Le Cinq, Paris" describes his horrific experience at an expensive restaurant. B) In Jay Raynor's "Le Cinq, Paris", presents a man who is not impressed with his meal at an expensive restaurant. C) "Le Cinq, Paris", written by Jay Rayner, is about a man who orders posh food and is disappointed with the outcome of the meal. D) "Le Cinq, Paris" presents the "nightmare" experience of a restaurant critic in one of Paris's most expensive establishments. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jay Rayner's review of "Le Cinq, Paris" describes his horrific experience at an expensive restaurant. 18. "The sun in the west was a drop of burning gold ..... " is an example of A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 19. Figurative language involves the use of ..... A) Words that mean exactly what they say they mean. B) Action figures in a text. C) Grammatically expressive language. D) Thinking! The meaning of something that has to be figured out; Not the literal meaning. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thinking! The meaning of something that has to be figured out; Not the literal meaning. 20. Her finger hungered for a ring.The satin mittens were ancient.You could paddle through the spittle in the bottle.Is an example of A) Alliteration. B) Consonance. C) Assonance. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Consonance. ← 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