This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 434 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 434 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. All are advantages of 1st person Point-of-View EXCEPT ..... A) Pulls you into the story. B) Makes you identify with the characters. C) A Narrator can move around in time and space. D) You feel for the characters. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A Narrator can move around in time and space. 2. What is a story with a fully developed theme but is significantly shorter and less elaborate than a novel? A) Novella. B) Short story. C) Narrative. D) Tale. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Short story. 3. If the story goes back in time to show you something, the author is using: A) Foreshadowing. B) Hyperbole. C) Flashback. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Flashback. 4. Which word gives the best overall description of Fezziwig? A) Generous. B) Businesslike. C) Greedy. D) Angry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Generous. 5. An indirect reference. A) Allusion. B) Alliteration. C) Allegory. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 6. Puritan writing, like Of Plymouth Plantation, can be classified as A) Plain Style. B) Transcendentalism. C) Indirect Characterization. D) Romanticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plain Style. 7. "With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the genuine discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, pray together; to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom forever, knowing that we will be free one day." This section of "I Have a Dream" demonstrates an example of: A) Anaphora. B) Epistrophe. C) Folding. D) Interplay. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anaphora. 8. It is a literary device where words are used in quick succession and begin with letters belonging to the same sound group. A) Alliteration. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 9. In literature, the element that makes readers feel certain feelings or emotions because of the author's word choice A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Theme. D) Topic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mood. 10. Author's/narrator's emotional attitude toward the subject in the story A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Dialogue. D) Dialect. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 11. While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping A) Alliteration. B) Idiom. C) Imagery. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 12. A forest in the middle of the night is the ..... of "The Interlopers." A) Dramatic irony. B) Symbol. C) Conflict. D) Setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Setting. 13. The stars are diamonds in the clear winter sky. A) Personification. B) Alliteration. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 14. My heart is a nest that had song-birds in it. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 15. A person says one thing, but means something else A) Situational irony. B) Irony. C) Verbal irony. D) Dramatic irony. E) Sarcasm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Verbal irony. 16. The series of events that lead up to the ..... of the story is the ..... A) Falling Action, Rising Action. B) Exposition, Climax. C) Climax, Rising Action. D) Plot, Rising Action. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Climax, Rising Action. 17. Metaphor and Simile are examples of what: A) Comparisons. B) Figures of Speech. C) Consonant Sounds. D) Devices. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Comparisons. 18. "Some consequence yet hanging in the stars/ Shall bitterly begin his fearful date" is an example of A) Personification. B) Foreshadowing. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foreshadowing. 19. "After years of laying in the sun, Bob's skin looked like a dried up old raisin" is an example of ..... A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 20. An internet ad banner telling you to click it for a free iphone. Which selection best fits the authors purpose? A) Tell. B) Urge. C) Present. D) Describe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Urge. ← 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