This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 424 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 424 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. He was a car speeding through the streets is an example of ..... A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 2. Her anger was a storm that struck suddenly and without warning. A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 3. Read the summary of a story below and determine which is present:Juliet drinks a sleeping potion in order to sneak off and be with Romeo. Romeo kills himself because he thinks Juliet is dead but she awakes to find him deceased and then kills herself. A) Situational Irony. B) Dramatic Irony. C) Verbal Irony. D) Hyperbole. E) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dramatic Irony. 4. A fight or difference of opinion ..... a struggle between opposing forces A) Contradiction. B) Contraindication. C) Conflict. D) Exposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Conflict. 5. But I cannot but stay and make a pause, and stand half amazed at this poor people's present condition A) Author's bias. B) Author's purpose. C) Simile. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Author's bias. 6. Alexandro and Natalie are discussing about their favorite books. Alexandro says, 'The author's description of the character's courage is very strong!', while Natalie says, 'The character's courage is as fierce as a lion facing its prey'. Which statement is a simile? A) Alexandro's statement states that the courage is strong. B) Natalie's statement that compares two different things using 'as'. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Natalie's statement that compares two different things using 'as'. 7. The use of words by an author in order to stimulate one or more of the five senses, creating a "mental image" for the reader. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 8. She hesitated, listening for sounds of the creature. The forest seemed empty, but she could sense something else out there. Something watching and waiting.What is the mood of the passage? A) Joyful. B) Romantic. C) Suspenseful. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Suspenseful. 9. Foreshadowing is when we learn what will happen in the ..... A) Past. B) Present. C) Future. D) Never. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Future. 10. The villain in a story (or person causing conflict) A) Antagonist. B) Conflict. C) Protagonist. D) Characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antagonist. 11. I am so hungry I could eat a slice of pie. A) Hyperbole. B) Not a Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Not a Hyperbole. 12. Which of the following is not an example of foreshadowing? A) At the beginning of The Wizard of Oz, Miss Gulch is shown changing into a witch, clearly showing what is yet to come. B) In Avatar, Grace says, "I'd die to get a sample", referring to the Tree of Souls. Later she is wounded and is taken to the tree and says, "I should get a sample.". C) In Finding Nemo, Dory sings a song titled "Just Keep Swimming." She swims throughout the movie. D) In The Empire Strikes Back, Luke sees his own face under Vader's mask when he was on Dagobah. Later, he finds out Vader is his father. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In Finding Nemo, Dory sings a song titled "Just Keep Swimming." She swims throughout the movie. 13. What technique is being used in the following passage:The rain kissed my face as it fell. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 14. When the fire alarm goes off, all of the students ..... out the nearest exit. A) Walking. B) Walk. C) Walks. D) Are walking. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Walk. 15. What is a Allusion? A) A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural significance. B) Gives the audience hints or signs about the future. C) The repetition of the same or similar vowel sounds within words, phrases, or sentences. D) Words that begin with the same sound are placed close together. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural significance. 16. Something that stands for something beyond itself. A) Allusion. B) Alliteration. C) Symbol. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbol. 17. The narrator reveals the thoughts, feelings, and observations, of only one character in which point of view? A) Third person limited. B) Third person omniscient. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Third person limited. 18. "So I learned to hold my tongue ..... " A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 19. Which is the most effective rhetorical question? A) What would you do if you were a famous chef?. B) What would you do if you were dissatisfied with an expensive meal?. C) Why are there so many bad restaurants in the world?. D) Should restaurants that are too expensive be shut down?. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) What would you do if you were dissatisfied with an expensive meal?. 20. Based on the situation, fire can have multiple meanings within a text. This is an example of what literary device? A) Flashback. B) Hyperbole. C) Pun. D) Symbolism. 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