This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 426 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 426 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Ryan jumps like a kangaroo A) Alliteration. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 2. MOOD is the feeling conveyed by the AUTHOR towards the story and the characters. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FALSE. 3. Tool used by the author to enliven and provide voice to the text (Ex. Dialogue, alliteration, imagery, etc.) A) Literary Device. B) Metaphor. C) Motif. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Literary Device. 4. An idea, symbol, pattern, or character-type, in a story. It's any story element that appears again and again in stories from cultures around the world and symbolizes something universal in the human experience. A) Mood. B) Archetype. C) Alliteration. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Archetype. 5. What is this an example of? "There's a light on the in the attic. Though the house is dark and shuttered, I can see a flickerin' flutter, And I know what it's about." A) Imagery. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 6. What's the definition of pun? A) A play on words; sometimes on different meanings of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words. B) When incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side. C) The mood of a piece of writing is its general atmosphere or emotional complexion-in short, the array of feelings the work evokes in the reader. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A play on words; sometimes on different meanings of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words. 7. TRUE or FALSE:a story cannot have more than one theme A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FALSE. 8. An object, character, or event that stands for something else A) Symbolism. B) Setting. C) Point of view. D) 1st person. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Symbolism. 9. Phrase comparing two or more words in an exaggeration A) Allusion. B) Slant Rhyme. C) Idiom. D) Epistrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Idiom. 10. I cried a river of tears as I heard the terrible news. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 11. DEFINITION:What is imagery? A) Language that compares two things using like or as. B) Language that gives human qualities to non-human things. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Language that gives human qualities to non-human things. 12. The overarching idea that permeates throughout the story and usually acts as a moral message to the audience. A) Plot. B) External Conflict. C) Internal Conflict. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Theme. 13. Giving human qualities to animals or objects A) Juxtaposition. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 14. "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" is an example of which sound device? A) Hyperbole. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 15. "Quiet, soft spoken little Johnny, who wouldn't hurt a living thing on purpose, had taken a human life. " is an example of ..... A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Irony. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Irony. 16. Where is the literary device Imagery used? A) He is harmless even to children. B) Small and green. C) Among the green slim reeds. D) He vanishes in the ripples. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Small and green. 17. Contains monsters, magic, or other supernatural elements A) Fantasy. B) Realistic fiction. C) Fairy tale. D) Legend. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fantasy. 18. "If I do not eat my daily papaya, I will surely die" is an example of what type of literary device? A) Metaphor. B) Paradox. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 19. Some people are calling me the Tiger Woods of miniature golf. A) Allusion. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 20. Which word describes something non-human with human qualities? A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. E) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. ← 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