This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 412 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 412 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A comparison of two things using "like" or "as" is ..... A) Metaphor. B) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 2. Which of the following sentence contains a hyperbole? A) My virtual classmates are a sea of anonymous faces. B) The kite cut through the air like a sharp bite. C) Ms. Evans is the busiest teacher in the entire universe. D) The fireworks zipped and exploded into colorful raining stars. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ms. Evans is the busiest teacher in the entire universe. 3. The main idea or the basic meaning of a work A) Simile. B) Theme. C) Archetype. D) Comedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Theme. 4. Foreshadowing gives ..... as to what will happen later. A) Hints. B) Answers. C) Pictures. D) Humor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hints. 5. What imagery does Tennyson use in this excerpt from the poem?In the stormy east wind strainingThe yellow words were waningThe broad stream in his banks complaningHeavily the low sky rainingOver towered Camelot. A) Imagery of sight and touch. B) Imagery of taste and touch. C) Imagery of smell, taste, and touch. D) Imagery of sight, touch, and sound. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery of sight, touch, and sound. 6. In this type of writing, the reader will see words/phrases such as because, as a result of, and due to. A) Cause & effect. B) Problem & solution. C) Chronological order. D) Compare & contrast. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cause & effect. 7. What is a Foreshadowing? A) Is a device that moves an audience from the present moment in a chronological narrative to a scene in the past. B) Gives the audience hints or signs about the future. C) Is a brief introductory piece in a book that is usually written by someone other than then author. D) Is a short scene in which the action jumps ahead to the future of the narrative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gives the audience hints or signs about the future. 8. Reveals something true which at first seems contradictory A) METAPHOR. B) HYPERBOLE. C) SIMILE. D) PARADOX. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) PARADOX. 9. The changes in a character throughout the story A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Character development. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Character development. 10. Which of the following sentences contains a metaphor? A) The house was a carnival. B) The house was noisy like a carnival. C) The house had a carnival-like atmosphere. D) The carnival moved into the house. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The house was a carnival. 11. Which matches the definition of simile? A) Describing two unlike things without using the words "like" or "as.". B) A collection of words that start with the same consonant sound. C) Giving human traits to non-humans. D) Comparing two unlike things using "like" or "as". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Comparing two unlike things using "like" or "as". 12. "Rain, with the drum and gush of water, with the sweet crystal fall of showers and the concussion of storms" A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Imagery. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 13. What did the egg do when it saw the frying, It scrambled What is it? A) Alliteration. B) Metaphor. C) Pun. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pun. 14. Refers to the use of indicative word or phrases and hints that set the stage for a story to unfold and give the reader a hint of something that is going to happen without revealing the story or spoiling the suspense. A) Inference. B) Foreshadow. C) Allusion. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foreshadow. 15. Mr. Peter gets excited sometimes and talks a million miles an hour. A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 16. An example of this device is: "Just before the game, the boy bragged that 'No one can beat us!" ' A) Arrogance. B) Foreshadowing. C) Prediction. D) Exclamation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foreshadowing. 17. Which of the following is the best example of irony? A) A dog playing with a cat. B) A hunter being hunted. C) A police station catching on fire. D) An empty subway station. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A hunter being hunted. 18. What is the literal dictionary definition of a word called? A) Connotation. B) Denotation. C) Dialogue. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Denotation. 19. The Sun was like a large ball of butter. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 20. ..... a short summary of a humorous event used tomake a point A) Anecdote. B) Denouncement. C) Allusion. D) None. 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