This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 441 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 441 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Tate stamps his feet and crosses his arms. How do you think he feels? A) Joyful. B) Tearful. C) Lonely. D) Angry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Angry. 2. I was so angry that I kicked an elephant all the way to Mars! A) Hyperbole. B) Idiom. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 3. Has gods or godesses and often accounts for how something came to be A) Fairy tale. B) Legend. C) Myth. D) Tall tale. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Myth. 4. There go the loves that wither [dry up], The old loves with wearier wings; And all dead years draw thither [there] And disastrous things; Dead dreams of days forsaken, Blind buds that snows have shaken, Wild leaves that winds have taken, Red strays of ruined springs ..... And love, grown faint and fretful With lips but half regretful Sighs, and with eyes forgetful Weeps that no loves endure [last]. QUESTION:What mood do the details in the poem convey? A) Wastefulness and excess. B) Happiness. C) Sadness and despair. D) Mistrust. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sadness and despair. 5. He's as flaky as a snowstorm. A) Hyperbole. B) Analogy. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Analogy. 6. Language intended to create an emotional response. A) Feeling words. B) Emotional language. C) Connotations. D) Emotive language. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Emotive language. 7. What is the same or similar vowel sound repeated in the stressed syllable of a word, followed by uncommon consonant sounds. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assonance. 8. Which choice is a figure of speech in which the absent or dead are spoken to as if present and inanimate objects as if they were living? A) Archetype. B) Allusion. C) Apostrophe. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Apostrophe. 9. Which literary term is showcased in the following quote:Then I glanced up and saw a pair of kites, red with long blue tails, soaring in the sky. A) Epiphany. B) Flashback. C) Imagery. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 10. What is the best definition of metaphor? A) Successive words beginning with the same sound. B) When the opposite happens than what you expect. C) Making a non-person into a person. D) Comparing two unlike things. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Comparing two unlike things. 11. The example highlighted below is an example of? Her hair is a shimmering waterfall. A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Rhyme. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 12. What is the purpose of foreshadowing in a story? A) To create suspense and build anticipation. B) To compare two unlike things using like or as. C) To convey a deeper meaning beyond the literal interpretation. D) To exaggerate and emphasize a point. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To create suspense and build anticipation. 13. A play on words, using words that have a double meaning or that sound the same but have different meanings A) Puns. B) Simile. C) Situational irony. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Puns. 14. "Mrs. Lewis will make Steve the baseball team captain. He is already the captain of the volleyball team. " This sentence is an example of which fallacy? A) It does not follow. B) Hasty Generalization. C) Slippery Slope. D) Circular Reasoning. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It does not follow. 15. An example of this device is: "He was an absolute beast on the football field." A) Exaggeration. B) Metaphor. C) Imagery. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 16. How I Met Your Mother (show) A) Symbolism. B) Allusion. C) Frame Tale. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Frame Tale. 17. "Jangle and bang go the pots and pans"Which literary device is used in the above sentence? A) Personification. B) Symbolism. C) Rhyme. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 18. Spencer looked at the thermometer. It was 101 degrees outside. "Jeez, " he said. "I hope it warms up. I want to go to the beach later." A) Verbal. B) Situational. C) Dramatic. D) Not Ironic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Verbal. 19. Which of the following is a present passive infinitive? A) To mix. B) Fulsere. C) To request. D) Murmur. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To mix. 20. Read the following and determine if the author used direct or indirect characterization. Mark mumbled something under his breath, stomped out of the room and slammed the door, thinking to himself, this is so unfair! A) Direct characterization. B) Indirect characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Indirect characterization. ← 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