This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 392 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 392 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A line of poetry and prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter A) Chorus. B) The clock. C) Allegory. D) Blank verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Blank verse. 2. Which sentence is NOT an example of imagery? A) My socks are worn and smell like a gym locker room. B) My mother loves me. C) The ringing of the bells was loud and clear. D) The flowery fragrance of grandma's perfume filled the air. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) My mother loves me. 3. Which literary device is the struggle between two opposing forces (usually the protagonist and an antagonist)and is the main problem in the story A) Setting. B) Theme. C) Plot. D) Conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Conflict. 4. Life is a roller coaster. What does this metaphor mean? A) They have a new roller coaster at Darien Lake. B) You're in danger when you're on a roller coaster. C) Life has ups and downs. D) I shouldn't ride roller coasters. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Life has ups and downs. 5. A reference to another historical event, literary work, or something that the author refers to within a text. A) Allusion. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 6. "I want to grab her by the neck and shake her and scream at her to stop treating me like dirt" (21) A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 7. My spoon was an icicle in my hand. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 8. What type of literary device is found in the following quite: "My great-grandmother. I would've liked to have known her, a wild horse of a woman, so wild she wouldn't marry" (11). A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 9. McLeod treating Chuck more like a student and less like someone who is annoying him. A) Rising actin. B) Developing character. C) Epiphany. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Developing character. 10. A series of events that build from the conflict A) Exposition. B) Climax. C) Resolution. D) Rising action. E) Falling action. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rising action. 11. Comparison between two things BUT DOESN'T use "like" or "as" A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Mood. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 12. Which is an example of MAN VS. SELF? A) Margot vs. William in All Summer in a Day. B) Brian vs. a moose. C) A student fights against a school dress code. D) You must pick whether to eat a healthy snack or eat that big tub of ice cream. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) You must pick whether to eat a healthy snack or eat that big tub of ice cream. 13. Writing techniques used by authors to engage readers beyond the literal meaning of words. A) Literary devices or literary elements. B) Poetic devices or sound devices. C) Figurative language or figures of speech. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 14. The uncertainty or anxiety the reader feels about what is going to happen next in a story A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Suspense. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Suspense. 15. This is comparing two things using "like" or "as" . A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 16. What were the consequences of pressing the button in "Button, Button" ? (think of the warning Mr Stewart gave vs what actually happened at the very end of the story) A) Norma's husband died. B) There were no consequences. C) Norma died. D) Some one Norma didn't know died. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Norma's husband died. 17. A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. (a general, figurative comparison) A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 18. Rita heard the last piece of pie calling her name. A) Personification. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 19. Name that literary device:I sat and listened as the ocean murmured in the distance. A) Imagery. B) Allusion. C) Analogy. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 20. Don't be such a Romeo (an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly) A) Allusion. B) Denotation. C) Theme. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. ← 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