This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 440 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 440 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which literary device is used in the poem "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost in the repeated phrase "I took" ? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anaphora. 2. What is the purpose of using caricature and exaggeration in a political cartoon, according to Lavani, Anshuman and Shyla? A) To emphasize a point. B) To create a sense of humor. C) To make a political statement. D) To add detail to the cartoon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To emphasize a point. 3. An organizational device used in literature to create expectations or to set up an explanation of later developments A) Satire. B) Foreshadowing. C) Flashback. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foreshadowing. 4. "It was raining, a slow, cold drizzle that for weeks had been descending from soggy black clouds. The graveyard was a slough of yellow, sucking mud, from which the rain-washed tombstones stood up in irregular battalions." (from Henry Kuttner's "The Graveyard Rats")What impact does the metaphor in the above quote have on our understanding of the scene? A) It helps us visualize the color of the tombstones in the cemetery. B) It helps us understand how old the cemetery is. C) It helps us visualize how the tombstones are not in a straight formation but are in crooked rows. D) It helps us understand the weather during this scene of the story. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It helps us visualize how the tombstones are not in a straight formation but are in crooked rows. 5. What is the prefix meaning opposite? A) Sub-. B) For-. C) Anti-. D) Uni-. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anti-. 6. The particular event that brings about a particular story is the ..... A) Complicating factor. B) Conflict. C) Dilemma. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Complicating factor. 7. Examples of Personification A) Lightning danced across the sky. B) Lightning is very fast. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lightning danced across the sky. 8. Is the statement "Vincent the viral ventriloquist signed up for vaccination", an alliteration? A) Yes. B) No. C) None of the above. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 9. "The woods are lovely, dark and deep" What literary device is used? A) Allusion. B) Paradox. C) Imagery. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 10. "Life is what you make of it ..... " is an example of a- A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Aphorism. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aphorism. 11. The main idea or an underlying meaning of literary work ..... examples are love, family, friendship, revenge, perseverance A) Characterization. B) Theme. C) Flashback. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Theme. 12. Which of these sentences contains a use of alliteration? A) Sarah went to the beach. B) Sarah walked along the shoreline. C) Sarah swam slowly in the salty sea. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sarah swam slowly in the salty sea. 13. Figure of speech that directly compares two things using 'like' or 'as' A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Oxymoron. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 14. Deafening silence, organized chaos, cruelly kind, insanely logical, etc. A) Metonym. B) Oxymoron. C) Paradox. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron. 15. A comparison using "like, " "as, " "so, " "than, " or words such as "resemble" or "compare" A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Euphemism. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 16. What literary device is displayed below:"His heart was truly broken." A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 17. Anything (object, animal, event, person or place) that represents itself but also stands for something else on a figurative level. A) Extended metaphor. B) Theme. C) Symbol. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbol. 18. In the poem, "eve and the snake" Jackie wishes God would give them another chance to do what? A) Eat the apple. B) Attend Kingdom Hall. C) Forget the past. D) Say no to the snake. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Say no to the snake. 19. Time and place of a story's action A) Setting. B) Imagery. C) Pun. D) Adage. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Setting. 20. True or FalseA literary device is any specific aspect of literature, or a particular work, which we can recognize, identify, interpret and/or analyze. A) True. B) False. 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