This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 409 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 409 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The bee buzzed around the flowers A) Onomatopoeia. B) Imagery. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 2. 'Why wouldn't you recycle and help the planet?' is an example of what language feature? A) Statistics. B) List. C) Simile. D) Rhetorical question. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhetorical question. 3. A reference to a person, place, thing or event outside the work which the author expects the reader or the audience to recognize A) Foreshadow. B) Hyperbole. C) Allusion. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 4. Who is the MAIN character of our story? A) The rats. B) Timothy. C) Jeremy. D) Mrs. Fresby. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mrs. Fresby. 5. A device where inanimate objects are given human characteristics A) Apostrophe. B) Juxtaposition. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 6. Identify the type of irony:The son of the police chief is arrested for attempted burglary. A) Situational Irony. B) Verbal Irony. C) Dramatic Irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Situational Irony. 7. What is 1st person Point-of-View? A) The author or a narrator tells the story. B) A character in the story tells the story. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A character in the story tells the story. 8. The frog plopped into the pond. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 9. "Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before" is an example of A) Theory. B) Metaphor. C) Cutting. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 10. Which of these is NOT a symbol in NS? A) Police Uniforms. B) Fire. C) The Phone in Miss Dunn's office. D) The Name of the Text. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Phone in Miss Dunn's office. 11. What is language which allows the reader to visualise the setting or situation more clearly? A) Metaphor. B) Assonance. C) Imagery. D) Genre. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 12. That trip was as fast as a cheetah means ..... A) The trip was quick. B) We saw a cheetah on our trip. C) The trip was not fast. D) We took a trip to see the cheetahs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The trip was quick. 13. Which literary device is this an example of: "I wandered lonely as a cloudthat floats on high o'er vales and hills." -William Wordsworth, Daffodils A) Allegory. B) Anachronism. C) Foreshadowing. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 14. Connotation and denotation are two ways to describe the meanings of ..... A) Planets. B) Birds. C) Words. D) Sentences. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Words. 15. Read the following passage and identify the author's purpose:One night, as I watched my newborn son sleep, studying his beautiful face, I suddenly became filled with fear. I was convinced I would screw him up-that all my problems would wash over him, tarnishing his perfect soul. Strangely, while panicking about my son's impending doom, Dad popped to mind. I sat there in the dark, surrounded by the soothing sounds and smells of my baby's room, and I thought of how Dad must have felt when I was born. I knew at that moment that he never intended to hurt me. I realized that he loved me just as I loved my son. I knew that he had done the best he could, even if it wasn't always very good. A) Sharing a personal memory. B) Informing about fatherhood. C) Persuading young men to become good fathers. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sharing a personal memory. 16. Example: "I was struggling to figure out how lightning works. Then it struck me." A) Simile. B) Allusion. C) Irony. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pun. 17. What should the introduction of a literary essay include? A) A lead-in sentence and a thesis statement with three points. B) A hook, the author and title, and three points. C) A hook, a lead-in sentence, the author and title, and a short summary of the story. D) A hook, the author and title with a short summary of the story, and a thesis statement with three points. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A hook, the author and title with a short summary of the story, and a thesis statement with three points. 18. A vignette has a theme or central idea of its own and describes a specific event or character that is important? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 19. How a writer presents a character A) Personification. B) Characterization. C) Conflict. D) Contrast. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Characterization. 20. Visually descriptive language; things you could picture with the senses A) Oxymoron. B) Imagery. C) Irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 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