This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 391 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 391 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The sea lashed out in anger at the ships, unwilling to tolerate another battle. Which device is represented in the sentence above? A) Allegory. B) Oxymoron. C) Imagery. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 2. "She was young the way an actual young person is young." is an example of which literary device? A) Satire. B) Metaphor. C) Colloquialism. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repetition. 3. Identify the expanded noun phrase:Dad made some delicious hotdogs. A) Some delicious hotdogs. B) Dad made. C) Made some delicious hotdogs. D) Delicious hotdogs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Some delicious hotdogs. 4. Which literary device is this:the more you give, the more you get A) Paradox. B) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paradox. 5. The author writes " the girl is selfish and rude." This is an example of ..... A) Foil character. B) Imagery. C) Internal conflict. D) Direct characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Direct characterization. 6. Figure of speech comparing one thing to another using 'as' or 'like'. A) Oxymoron. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Comparison. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 7. Which group of words best describes how we understand the symbolic meaning of an object or an action? A) Where, when, how, and who. B) Why, where, when, and how. C) What, why, where, and how. D) How, what, where, and when. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Where, when, how, and who. 8. What type of context clues use similar words to help with the meaning of an unknown word? A) Antonyms. B) Examples. C) Synonyms. D) Definitions. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Synonyms. 9. What is the following an example of ..... "I like that boom boom pow ..... " A) Imagery. B) Hyperbole. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 10. "We laughed like a pack of hyenas." is an example of a ..... A) Metaphor. B) Imagery. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 11. Select the error in the following passage:The first day of the semester is often one of the hardest. Represents such a drastic change. A) There is a comma splice error. B) There is a missing conjunction. C) There is a sentence fragment. D) "Semester" should be capitalized. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) There is a sentence fragment. 12. When Charles Dickens said "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" which literary device was he using? A) Colloquialism. B) Paradox. C) Elegy. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paradox. 13. What is the definition of disadvantage? A) The state or an instance of being in an unfavorable circumstance or condition. B) Not paying enough attention to what one does. C) Of an extreme or excessive degree. D) Characterized by lack of speed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The state or an instance of being in an unfavorable circumstance or condition. 14. The point of a plot where events are displayed that lead to the end of the story. A) Rising action. B) Falling action. C) Climax. D) Resolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Falling action. 15. Which definition is correct for the following term:Theme A) The feeling readers get from reading; the overall atmosphere, or feeling, of the story. B) The moral or lesson the author communicates through the story's plot. C) When an author gives the reader hints or clues as to what will happen next. D) When human qualities are attributed, or given, to non-human things. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The moral or lesson the author communicates through the story's plot. 16. This type of sentence asks a question and ends in a question mark. A) Interrogative. B) Declarative. C) Exclamatory. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Interrogative. 17. A pretty parrot perched on Patrick's shoulder. A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. E) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 18. It was very late and everyone had left the cafe except an old man who sat in the shadow the leaves of the tree made against the electric light. In the day time the street was dusty, but at night the dew settled the dust and the old man liked to sit late because he was deaf and now at night it was quiet and he felt the difference. What is the tone of the passage? A) Angry. B) Passionate. C) Optimistic. D) Calm and peaceful. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Calm and peaceful. 19. To talk with you and to be together. A) Twenty days. B) Hysteron proteron. C) Alliteration. D) The past. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hysteron proteron. 20. Example:I felt the gritty sand while swallowing a mouthful of salty ocean water on a stinky, garbage-filled beach. A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. ← 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