This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 43 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 43 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What sense is being engaged most in this example:The television buzzed as it shut off, and the furnace sighed one last time before the house fell silent. A) Touch. B) Taste. C) Sight. D) Smell. E) Hearing. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Hearing. 2. My favourite movie is The Night of the Living Dead. A) Oxymoron. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Cliche. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron. 3. The attitude of a writer on a particular subject conveyed through the choice of words or the viewpoint of a writer on a particular subject A) Irony. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tone. 4. A form of extended metaphor in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative are equated with meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. The underlying meaning may have moral, social, religious, or political significance, and characters are often personifications of abstract ideas such as charity, greed, or envy A) Allegory. B) Symbolism. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allegory. 5. Luna, James, and Rohan are having a debate. They are trying to figure out what is the main idea of a poem. Can you help them out? A) Topic. B) Word Choice. C) Voice. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Theme. 6. When a writer provides hints of future events in a story. A) Foreshadowing. B) Exposition. C) Point of view. D) Dynamic character. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foreshadowing. 7. A story that is not true A) Non-fiction. B) Fiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fiction. 8. Which of the following is an example of internal conflict? A) A hero saves many lives. B) A struggle between a character and a family member. C) A character has to survive a tornado. D) A character is afraid of starting at a new school. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A character is afraid of starting at a new school. 9. Extended metaphor A) Something that stands for or represents something else, especially an object representing an abstraction. B) Consciously directed methods of organizing and presenting thoughts in writing. While there are many rhetorical strategies, they generally fall into four major categories:Description, Exposition, Narration, and Persuasion. C) Is a relationship of contrast between what an audience is led to expect during a particular situation within the unfolding of a story's plot and a situation that ends up actually resulting later on. D) A comparison which is carried throughout a stanza or an entire poem between two very different things. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A comparison which is carried throughout a stanza or an entire poem between two very different things. 10. The latest craze or fad; everyone has to have it. A) Bias. B) Binge. C) Bandwagon effect. D) Band-aid effect. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bandwagon effect. 11. ..... is an intentional exaggeration not intended to be taken literally. A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Imagery. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 12. This is a literary device through which writer present their characters and setting in a way that it appeals to the physical senses of sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste along with feelings and movement. It requires the writer to provide detailed descriptions that allow the reader to experience the character or the setting through the author's eyes. A) Presentation. B) Personification. C) Imagery. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 13. What is the main function of the protagonist in a story? A) To create conflict. B) To support the antagonist. C) To drive the plot forward. D) To provide comic relief. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To drive the plot forward. 14. ModeThe various processes of communication-listening, speaking, reading/viewing and writing/creating. Modes are also used to refer to the semiotic (meaning making) resources associated with these communicative processes, such as sound, print, image and gesture. A) Author. B) Text. C) Context. D) Audience. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Text. 15. Which literary term is showcased in the following quote:The earth shook a little and we heard the rat-a-tat-tat of gunfire. A) Epiphany. B) Metaphor. C) Symbolism. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 16. 'Denham's Dentifrice, Denham's Dandy Dental Detergent, Denham's Dentifrice Dentifrice Dentifrice' (p. 75) A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Repetition. D) Word choice. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 17. An ordinary object, event, animal, or person to which we have attached extraordinary meaning and significance A) Allusion. B) Literary Devices. C) Symbolism. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbolism. 18. In Toy Story, human characters are not aware that the toys speak and move, but the audience is. A) Verbal irony. B) Dramatic irony. C) Situational irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dramatic irony. 19. Read the following sentence from "Thank You, Mr. Falker" ."But when Trisha tried, the numbers were like a stack of blocks, wobbly and ready to fall."The author's use of figurative language in this sentence helps the reader- A) Understand why Trisha has difficulty reading. B) Predict how Mr. Falker will help Trisha learn to read. C) Visualize the types of books Trisha is reading. D) Infer that Trisha is better at reading than math. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Understand why Trisha has difficulty reading. 20. When the opposite of what you expect to happens occurs A) Foreshadowing. B) Simile. C) Irony. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Irony. ← 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