This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 418 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 418 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. My math teacher is he who must not be named. A) Parallelism. B) Allusion. C) Allegory. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 2. When Elizabeth was brought into the courtroom in Act 3, the audience knew John had already admitted to adultery but she had no idea. This is an example of: A) Person vs society conflict. B) Foreshadowing. C) Symbolism. D) Dramatic irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dramatic irony. 3. Reference to a particular event or character in classical works of literature. A) Allusion. B) Classical Allusion. C) Imagery. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Classical Allusion. 4. The feeling or atmosphere a piece of literature creates in the reader A) Tone. B) Symbolism. C) Imagery. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mood. 5. Which sentence has the most energetic tone? A) It is raining heavily, and I don't have an umbrella!. B) It is raining heavily, I can't believe that I don't have an umbrella!. C) It is raining heavily, and I don't have an umbrella; let's splash and have fun!. D) It is raining heavily, and I hate it!. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It is raining heavily, and I don't have an umbrella; let's splash and have fun!. 6. Which is NOT an example of a literary device? A) Symbols. B) Imagery. C) Jane Schaffer format. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jane Schaffer format. 7. The use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning A) Imagery. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration. E) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Onomatopoeia. 8. What is a word which imitates the natural sounds of a thing? A) Paradox. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Idiom. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 9. What is the name of a quote or poem used before a story begins to give context? A) Epithet. B) Oxymoron. C) Epigraph. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Epigraph. 10. Which of the following is when the "Author reveals a character to the reader by directly stating a character's traits in the text" A) Indirect characterization. B) Imagery. C) Setting. D) Direct characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Direct characterization. 11. Author or speaker's attitude towards the work is: ..... A) Foreshadowing. B) Indirect characterization. C) Theme. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tone. 12. Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone Scrooge! A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 13. They are one personThey are two aloneThey are three togetherThey are for each other A) Alliteration. B) Anaphora. C) Hyperbole. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anaphora. 14. The heir aired his assent to marry a lass who had his heart. A) Synecdoche. B) Metonymy. C) Alliteration. D) Anaphora. E) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Assonance. 15. The throngs unleashed, the ladies shopped for shoes. A) Personification. B) Repetition. C) Alliteration. D) Hyperbole. E) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 16. These are common structures in writing that make up the components of literature. We use these devices to help us interpret and analyze literary works. A) Literary Devices. B) Literary Themes. C) Literary Characters. D) Literary Criticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Literary Devices. 17. What is character motive? A) Smething that happens in the story which makes the character to do something. B) The main setting. C) The atmosphere and feeling that the author's creates to the reader. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Smething that happens in the story which makes the character to do something. 18. Two consecutive lines of verse with end rhyme; expresses a complete unit of thought. A) Stanza. B) Ode. C) Couplet. D) Form. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Couplet. 19. What literary device was used in the following example, "A cold wind rushed up the staircase." A) Simile. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Foreshadowing. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 20. "She had a very thin face like the dial of a small clock seen faintly in a dark room in the middle of a night." A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Pun. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. ← 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