This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 414 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 414 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A character who is presented to contrast another character showing the strengths and weaknesses of the two. A) Monologue. B) Aside. C) Foil. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Foil. 2. What's an example of an allusion? A) They see the icey S on your chest engraved in grayBe whipped I mightCause usually with my chips I'm tightBut only green I keep from you, is kryptonite. B) Speaking of annoying, any enjoyment of the show's final sketch hinges on the audience's threshold for hearing Kevin Hart scream the following words: "Pew, pew, pew, bop, bop" It happens three or four times during the course of this listening party for a bubbling rapper's forthcoming debut album. The idea of a rapper who tells all of his crew's secrets in his songs has a lot of potential, but this doesn't seem like the optimum version of that sketch. C) I've asked you not to do that a thousand times. D) My heart danced when he walked in the room. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They see the icey S on your chest engraved in grayBe whipped I mightCause usually with my chips I'm tightBut only green I keep from you, is kryptonite. 3. A character that does not change by the end of the story A) Flat character. B) Round character. C) Static character. D) Dynamic character. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Static character. 4. Knowing everything; having unlimited awareness or understanding A) 1st person point of view. B) 2nd person point of view. C) 3rd person point of view:objective. D) 3rd person point of view:limited. E) 3rd person point of view:omniscent. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) 3rd person point of view:omniscent. 5. ..... are a group of lines about an idea, like a paragraph. A) Line breaks. B) Lines. C) Stanzas. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanzas. 6. She swims like a fish. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 7. Identify the literary device in the following passage: "But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice" (King 2). A) Idiom. B) Alliteration. C) Juxtaposition. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 8. How does tone affect the meaning of a literary work? A) Tone has no impact on the meaning of a literary work. B) Tone only affects the author's interpretation of the work. C) Tone is determined solely by the reader's emotional response. D) Tone conveys the author's attitude and influences the reader's interpretation and emotional response. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tone conveys the author's attitude and influences the reader's interpretation and emotional response. 9. Is the following situation an example of an internal or external conflict? Joe can't decide whether to live with his mom or his dad. A) Internal conflict. B) External conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Internal conflict. 10. Mood in literature can be described as: A) The author's attitude towards his/her work. B) The feeling a text creates in the reader. C) The overall message about life, society or human nature. D) The use of foreshadowing to hint at tragic events. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The feeling a text creates in the reader. 11. Define Euphemism: A) To assign human qualities and attributes to objects or other non-human things. B) Is a repetition of similar sounds. C) Containing words that seem to contradict each other. D) A word or expression used in lieu of a harsher alternative. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A word or expression used in lieu of a harsher alternative. 12. "I wandered lonely as a cloud." This line from William Wordsworth's poem "Daffodils" is an example of: A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 13. What do Marley's chains symbolize? A) How much money he made when he was alive. B) How many people he wronged with his bad business practices. C) How many businesses he owned when he was alive. D) His materialism and greed. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) His materialism and greed. 14. The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon gorgeous, green seas A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Oxymoron. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 15. The lines "But, leathery hands full/ of wet brown life" show an example of A) Personification. B) Imagery. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 16. The truth was like a bad taste on his tongue. A) Hyperbole. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 17. The life of a patient of hypertension is always at steak. A) Pun. B) Paradox. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pun. 18. The dove is a ..... of peace. A) Token. B) Symbol. C) Foreshadow. D) Image. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Symbol. 19. This is a reference to a well-known person, place, event or literary work in another literary work A) Pun. B) Malapropism. C) Allusion. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 20. Which term is often confused with allegory? A) Symbolism. B) Imagery. C) Theme. D) All the above. 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