This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 430 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 430 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In the plot, what follows the climax or conflict? A) The rising action. B) The resolution. C) The exposition. D) The inciting incident. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The resolution. 2. What is the definition for 'Point of View'? A) Something in a story representing a bigger idea/something else. B) The way the author writes to make the reader feel a certain way. C) The way/how the story is being told (1st person, 3rd person, etc.). D) What we learn from reading the story. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The way/how the story is being told (1st person, 3rd person, etc.). 3. Motive A) A character's reason for doing what he/she does. B) Words that imitate, or sound like, the actions they describe. C) The author's attitude toward a subject, revealed by choice of words and details. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A character's reason for doing what he/she does. 4. What happens when the outcome is contrary to what was or might have been expected? A) Sarcasm. B) Irony. C) Assonance. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irony. 5. Which of the following is personification? A) The waves crashed against the shore. B) The cat sat on the mat. C) His eyes were like stars. D) The wind murmured through the trees. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The wind murmured through the trees. 6. "Then quickly, like a lock sliding into place, something was decided in his mind." A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 7. A recurring image, idea or symbol that develops or explains a theme A) Motif. B) Denotation. C) Epiphany. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Motif. 8. "I noticed [ ..... ] that there was a big shift in the way things were. A monumental shift. A seismic shift. Maybe even a cosmic shift."This is an example of: A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Allusion. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 9. Pamela never had time for her grandmother. She resented that they lived together and rarely gave her the time of day. By the end of the story she realized how much her grandmother meant to her and felt terribly about how she'd treated her throughout the years. A) Pamela is a flat character. B) Pamela is a round character. C) Pamela is a static character. D) Pamela is a dynamic character. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pamela is a dynamic character. 10. I came, I saw, I conquered. A) Unconnected. B) Multi-connector. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Unconnected. 11. Verbal Irony is also called A) Talking back. B) Sassing. C) Sarcasm. D) Meme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sarcasm. 12. What is a commonly used word or phrase used to convey a figurative meaning? It's understood to imply something quite different from what the words mean directly. A) Metaphor. B) Oxymoron. C) Dramatic Irony. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Idiom. 13. Choose the sentence that is correct. A) My dad is a great basketball coach, "said Josie.". B) "My dad is a great basketball coach, said Josie.". C) "My dad is a great basketball coach, " said Josie. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "My dad is a great basketball coach, " said Josie. 14. The line "In this land of milk and honey" uses which literary device? A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 15. ABAB word order A) Onomatopoeia. B) Chiasmus. C) Synchesis. D) Polysyndeton. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Synchesis. 16. The feeling or vibe created in the reader by the author's choices in what and how to write; created through diction and story elements like setting, narration, and plot A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Setting. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mood. 17. A short piece of nonfiction that expresses the writer's opinion or shares information about a subject. A) Fable. B) Fantasy. C) Reference Book. D) Essay. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Essay. 18. What does "Structure" NOT include? A) Stanza. B) Line. C) Form. D) Figurative Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Figurative Language. 19. Bob is such a couch potato. A) Alliteration. B) Metaphor. C) Analogy. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 20. What is the best example of foreshadowing below: A) Three witches telling Macbeth he will one day be King. B) Macduff's wife dying. C) Banquo going to sleep and having a dream. D) Banquo going to sleep and having a dream. 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