This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 425 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 425 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers; the atmosphere of a literary piece. A) Plot. B) Conflict. C) Mood. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mood. 2. Rhetoric A) Ways to persuade people; the art of persuasion. B) Persuasion through trustworthiness or credibility whether by showing where the persuader got their information from or by using an expert. (ex:a dentist on TV telling you to use this toothpaste for your teeth.). C) Persuasion through emotions. (Ex:those sad dog and cat shelter commercials.). D) Persuasion through logical thinking and reasoning. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ways to persuade people; the art of persuasion. 3. I am a rhythmic pattern in poetry that is usually repeated. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Meter. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Meter. 4. A character that is NOT described well by the author. You are not given much information about him/her A) Dynamic. B) Static. C) Round. D) Flat. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Flat. 5. A reference to another person, place, thing, event, or text, with which the reader is presumably familiar A) Irony. B) Antithesis. C) Hyperbole. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 6. Does figurative language give you a connotation or a denotation? A) Connotation. B) Denotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Connotation. 7. Me, I always tell the truth. Even when I lie." Is an example of A) Allusion. B) Oxymoron. C) Paradox. D) Metonym. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Paradox. 8. ..... silken, sad, uncertain and rustling. The 's' sound represents the usage of ..... A) Alliteration. B) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Consonance. 9. Repetition of the same sounds of the first syllable A) Repitition. B) Alliteration. C) Pun. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 10. Which of the following refers to when an animal or thing is given human characteristics? A) Hyperbole. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 11. Which type of conflict is the following scenario:The main character questions their own self worth. A) External. B) Internal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Internal. 12. You are as brave as a lion. A) Simile. B) Not a simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 13. Recognize the metaphor in the sentences: A) The world is like a puzzle. B) The world is as fun as playground. C) The world is a stage. D) The world is terrible and beautiful. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The world is a stage. 14. This is a literary device in which words that begin with the same sound are placed close together. A) Analogy. B) Alliteration. C) Allusion. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 15. What is MAN VS. SOCIETY? A) The central idea of a story. What the author wants you to take away from his story. B) The main character struggles against a law or rule. C) When the protagonist must struggle against a natural force. D) When the protagonist must struggle against another character. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The main character struggles against a law or rule. 16. A small whirl pool or whirlwind. A) Illiterate. B) Trill. C) Eddies. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Eddies. 17. NeYo:Said I'm so sick of love songs, so sad and slow A) Simile. B) Alliteration. C) Irony. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 18. Which sound device in poetry uses two or more words with the same ending sound? A) Rhyme. B) Rhyme Scheme. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 19. "Good vs evil" is a fairly common ..... across multiple genres and mediums. A) Tone. B) Moral. C) Theme. D) Motif. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Motif. 20. Which definition is correct for the following term:Exposition A) The moral or lesson the author communicates through the story's plot. B) The time and place of a work. C) The ending of a story, when loose ends are tied. D) The beginning of a story; sets up characters and setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The beginning of a story; sets up characters and setting. ← 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