This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 411 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 411 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A figure of speech that refers to someone or something famous A) Allusion. B) Symbol. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 2. MULTUM IN PARVO is anexample of the figure of speechknown as: A) Anaphora. B) Twenty days. C) Oxymoron. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oxymoron. 3. DEFINITION:What is personification? A) Language that gives human qualities to non-human things. B) Language that uses a real-life object to represent a deeper idea. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Language that gives human qualities to non-human things. 4. The following is an example of what type of literary device:a fire station catches on fire and burns to the ground. A) Verbal Irony. B) Simile. C) Situational Irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Situational Irony. 5. After playing in the snow all day, John's skin was as cold as ice A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 6. Which word means to compare using 'like' or 'as'? A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. E) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 7. "The sun rolled up, hung at mid heaven and wheeled westward." A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 8. When your friend fails a class, and you are happy because you have all passing grades. A) Tone. B) Person vs. technology. C) Sympathy. D) Apathy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Apathy. 9. A figure of speech that makes a comparison, showing similarities between two different things using the words like or as A) Simile. B) Situational irony. C) Suspense. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 10. Juliet is the sun. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 11. Which word means "a facial expression, often ugly or contorted, that indicates disapproval, pain, etc." A) Vigilant. B) Hierarchy. C) Grimaced. D) Muted. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Grimaced. 12. Fionna is good at sports, earns high grades in school, has a lot of friends, and is also an amazing artist. Her friends tell her she has the "Midas Touch." What does this allusion mean? A) Everything is going her way and she doesn't have to work very hard for all she has. B) Everything she touches turns to gold. C) She is arrogant and thinks she is a queen. D) She turns to gold when someone touches her. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Everything is going her way and she doesn't have to work very hard for all she has. 13. What is a utopia? A) A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way. B) A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant. C) An ideal society. D) A contrast between expectation and reality. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An ideal society. 14. It is the repetition of sounds at the ends of words. A) Figurative Language. B) Rhyme. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme. 15. The ..... is the turning point of the story, the highest point of tension, and where the conflict is faced. A) Rising action. B) Conflict. C) Climax. D) Falling action. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Climax. 16. A device used to help establish a relationship based on similarities between two concepts or ideas. A) Analogy. B) Inference. C) Denotation. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Analogy. 17. O Wind, if Winter comes, can there be Spring behind? A) Metaphor. B) Apostrophe. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Apostrophe. 18. What is an explanation of the symbolic title: "the divine wind" ? A) The act of deliberate self-destruction in pursuit of a cause. B) The inevitable change of values. C) The forceful nature by which individuals will stand up for what they believe in. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The act of deliberate self-destruction in pursuit of a cause. 19. Zig zag zombies, zoomin to the zenith A) Alliteration. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 20. This is the general feeling or impression conveyed by a passage. A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Diction. D) Unity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mood. ← 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