This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 433 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 433 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When the writer or speaker uses their descriptions to catch the SENSES of the reader or listener A) Allusion. B) Imagery. C) Oxymoron. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 2. WHAT IS THIS DEVICE CALLED"EVERY MORNING 7 AM, MY CLOCK COMES ALIVE" A) METAPHOR. B) PERSONIFICATION. C) HYPERBOLE. D) SIMILE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) PERSONIFICATION. 3. The character with few personality traits is called ..... A) Static Character. B) Antagonist. C) Flat Character. D) Round Character. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Flat Character. 4. Contradictory or contrasting words placed together to achieve a different meaning A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oxymoron. 5. Which of the following is the ONLY internal conflict? A) Man vs Man. B) Man vs Self. C) Man vs Nature. D) Man vs Society. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Man vs Self. 6. The giving of human-like traits to inanimate (non-human) objects is known as ..... ? A) Personification. B) Irony. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 7. Fred ate five French fries on Friday. A) Simile. B) Alliteration. C) Hyperbole. D) Cliche. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 8. The use of an object to represent a larger idea or quality. A) Simile. B) Symbolism. C) Personification. D) Peopleism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Symbolism. 9. Words that appeal to the senses. A) Simile. B) Imagery. C) Personification. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 10. A literary device that is used in stories to give clues to upcoming events is called A) Alliteration. B) Foreshadowing. C) Allusion. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foreshadowing. 11. Struggle within a character A) Internal conflict. B) External conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Internal conflict. 12. What is it when the attitude of the writer evokes feeling toward a subject or audience? A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Irony. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 13. "The word girl had formerly seemed to me innocent and unburdened, like the word child; now it appeared that it was no such thing. A girl was not, as I had supposed, simply what I was; it was what I had to become. It was a definition, always touched with reproach and disappointment." A) Analogy. B) Unconnected. C) Connotation. D) Hyperbaton. E) Periphrasis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Connotation. 14. "Fair is foul, and foul is fair." Who is speaking in this line? What is the context? A) Banquo says this to Macbeth after he kills Macdonwald. B) The three witches say this before meeting with Macbeth to give him the prophecy. C) Macbeth says this after he receives the prophecy from the three witches. D) King Duncan says this to Macbeth when he awards him with the Thane of Cawdor title. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The three witches say this before meeting with Macbeth to give him the prophecy. 15. When the current setting is interupted to go back in time to learn more about a character or a situation, it is called ..... A) Foreshadow. B) Flashback. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flashback. 16. An object that stands for something beyond itself. A) Theme. B) Tone. C) Mood. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbol. 17. Which Literary Device is in the following sentence:Your smile is like the sun rising on a clear summer day. A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 18. What is author's attitude? A) What the author chooses to write about. B) How an author feels about the subject. C) The author's word choice. D) How the author organizes the text. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) How an author feels about the subject. 19. A work with two levels of meaning, a literal one and a symbolic one defines the following term A) Simile. B) Allegory. C) Irony. D) Paraphrase. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allegory. 20. Which idiom goes the best with this sentence? I have a problem. A) I'm getting a hatI. B) I'm in a pickle. C) Don't put all of your eggs in one basket. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I'm in a pickle. ← 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