This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 420 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 420 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Audience knows more about a situation or event than the characters do A) Situational Irony. B) Dramatic Irony. C) Verbal Ironly. D) Transitional Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dramatic Irony. 2. Technique in which writers employ two or more characters to be engaged in conversation with one another A) Theme. B) Diction. C) Dialogue. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dialogue. 3. Study of mankind A) Anthropoid. B) Philantrhopy. C) Anthropology. D) Anthroponomy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anthropology. 4. A subdivision of an act in a dramatic presentation in which the setting is fixed and the time continuous A) Scene. B) Surprise. C) Mystery. D) Comic relief. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Scene. 5. Definition:the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of nearby words A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 6. Is the use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in the plot. A) Foreshadowing. B) Satire. C) Diction. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foreshadowing. 7. When the audience knows something that the characters don't is called ..... A) Foreshadowing. B) Dramatic irony. C) Situational irony. D) Verbal irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dramatic irony. 8. "Sarah saw six seahorses while swimming" is an example of ..... A) Hyperbole. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 9. Billy feels strangely drawn to the Bell and Dragon and was compelled to enter. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 10. Your explanation is as clear as mud. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 11. Godfather Death is a folktale/fable from which country? A) India. B) South Korea. C) France. D) Germany. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Germany. 12. An inoffensive expression substituted for an offensive one is the definition of what term? A) Inversion. B) Hyperbole. C) Foreshadowing. D) Euphemism. E) Flashback. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Euphemism. 13. This sentence contains an example of:He ran around an heap of metal being swallowed by a greedy bramble of blackberry bushes. A) Metaphor. B) Symbolism. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 14. Read the passage and determine its text structure! Ansel Bourne was a preacher, carpenter, and most likely an inspiration for the name "Bourne" in the movie and novel series, The Bourne Identity. Up until 1857, Bourne had been a carpenter, until he was called to religion. After 1858, he worked as an evangelical preacher, until 1887. He set up shop in Norristown, Pennsylvania, as a candy maker using the name A.J. Brown. Three months later, he woke up not knowing where he was, with no memory of the previous months. The case of Mr. Bourne has fascinated psychologists, and some film makers, for years. A) Compare and Contrast. B) Cause and Effect. C) Sequential. D) Chronological. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chronological. 15. How is repetition used in Horror? A) To make sure the reader knows how to spell the word. B) To make sure that the reader really understands the idea. C) To make the narrator/author seem crazy. D) To show that the author has a limited vocabulary. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To make the narrator/author seem crazy. 16. A pilot has a fear of heights is an example of ..... (how can a person who flies fear heights?!) A) Metaphor. B) Irony. C) Hyperbole. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irony. 17. A feeling or atmosphere a writer creates for the reader A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Foreshadowing. D) Setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mood. 18. The main character of the story is faced with an important decision that could change his life entirely. Which type of conflict is shown? A) Man vs Man. B) Man vs Self. C) Man vs Nature. D) Man vs Society. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Man vs Self. 19. Multimodal textCombination of two or more communication modes (for example, print, image and spoken text, as in film or computer presentations). A) Author. B) Text. C) Context. D) Audience. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Text. 20. "Guys are messy and unclean, but are really hard workers." is an example of ..... A) To man. B) False assumption. C) Slippery slope. D) Stereotype. 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