This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 387 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 387 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When you have to make inferences about a character based on their actions and/or words. A) Theme. B) Plot. C) Indirect Characterization. D) Direct Characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Indirect Characterization. 2. The character flaw or error of a tragic hero that leads to his downfall A) Tragic Flaw. B) Symbols & motifs. C) Analogy. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tragic Flaw. 3. Which literary device is defined as visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work? A) Hubris. B) Hyperbole. C) Idiom. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 4. Snow is like the sun, blindly enveloping my body. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Repetition. E) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 5. Complete the sentence using authorial intrusion:After school, we went to get ice cream A) And my best friend got chocolate gelato. B) And I ordered mint chocolate chip. C) Which is my favorite snack. D) But it was raining so we decided not to go. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Which is my favorite snack. 6. Attributing human qualities to non-human entities or abstract concepts. A) Archetype. B) Sensory Language. C) Personification. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 7. "But instead he stood there, very cold, his face a mask of ice, listening to a man's voice moving along at an easy pace." A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 8. The test was a piece of cake. What is this? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 9. The substitution of a mild, indirect, or vagueexpression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt. For example-we say someone passed away. A) Idiom. B) Hyperbole. C) Alliteration. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Euphemism. 10. In a story, when it talks about something that has happened in the past, what is this called? A) Flashback. B) Symbolism. C) Irony. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Flashback. 11. Identify the preposition(s): ..... After lunch we will go outside. A) Lunch. B) After. C) Will go. D) Outside. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) After. 12. "I'm sure one of my socks was hiding from me" is an example of: A) Onomatopoeia. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 13. Which literary device is used in the sentence "'Hearken! ..... how healthily-how calmly'? A) Comparison. B) Repetition. C) Parallel structure. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 14. Life is a broken-winged bird A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 15. Which literary device is most clearly used in the opening line from "The Golden Plate" ? "Once upon a time in a place called Seri, there were two salesmen of pots and pans and hand-made trinkets." A) Setting. B) Motivation. C) Imagery. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Setting. 16. Which literary term is showcased in the following quote:I wished I too had some kind of scar that would beget Baba's sympathy. A) Epiphany. B) Flashback. C) Symbolism. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbolism. 17. What is the purpose of characterization? A) To help add "fluff" to a story. B) To provide a story with an interesting subject. C) To help readers distinguish between characters in a text. D) To help build a connection between the characters and the reader. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To help build a connection between the characters and the reader. 18. You're being let go because your department's being downsized. A) Oxymoron. B) Euphemism. C) Irony. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Euphemism. 19. Hints that the author gives of things that are to come in the story. A) Flashback. B) Foreshadowing. C) Allusion. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foreshadowing. 20. Identify the literary device in the sentence 'The moonlight danced on the water.' A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. ← 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