This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 447 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 447 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Part B:Which line from the poem supports the answer to Part A? A) "as you wobbled away on two round wheels". B) "pumping, pumping for your life, screaming with laughter". C) "the hair flapping behind you like a handkerchief waving goodbye.". D) "while you grew smaller, more breakable with distance". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "the hair flapping behind you like a handkerchief waving goodbye.". 2. Is the poem, " The snake trying " written like a free verse? A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 3. If you want peace, you must prepare for war. A) Oxymoron. B) Paradox. C) Irony. D) Dramatic Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paradox. 4. A statement that represents something as better or worse than it really is. A) Help me. B) Connotations. C) Repetition. D) Exaggeration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Exaggeration. 5. "A political victory, a rise of rents, the recovery of your sick or the return of your absent friend, or some other quite external event raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you." The words in BLUE are an example of A) Metaphor. B) Symbolism. C) Personification. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 6. When words that rhyme within the lines of a poem and not necessarily at the end of each line, this type of rhyme is present. A) End rhyme. B) Internal rhyme. C) Slant rhyme. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Internal rhyme. 7. When characters, objects, or events have an abstract, or figurative meaning (stand for something else), it is called ..... A) Images. B) Symbolism. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Symbolism. 8. The AUTHORS attitude toward something A) Tone. B) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 9. In the phrase 'The mountains are sleeping giants', which literary device is being used? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 10. What type of literary device is found in the following quite: "Not the way you can tell with Rachel and Lucy who have the same fat popsicle lips like everybody else in their family" (17). A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 11. What does melancholy mean? A) Happy, cheerful, joyful. B) Sad, gloomy, unhappy. C) Excited, enthusiastic, elated. D) Peaceful, serene, content. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sad, gloomy, unhappy. 12. Which literary device is used in the following sentence:'The wind whispered through the trees'? A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 13. The babbling brook was bubbling with beauty. A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Consonance. 14. Many are called, but few are chosen. A) Contrast. B) Hyperbole. C) Antithesis. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Antithesis. 15. A direct comparison of two unlike things; saying one thing IS another A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 16. The bug went in for a hug after he dug out his mug is an example of ..... A) Simile. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 17. Snake-betrayalhome-family A) Conflict. B) Connotation. C) Consonance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Connotation. 18. The character that causes the conflict in the story A) Antagonist. B) Protagonist. C) Static character. D) Dynamic character. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antagonist. 19. ALL OF THE FOLLOWING ARE INCLUDED, EXCEPT: "Every night when the stars come out Am I the only living soul around? Need to believe you could hold me down 'Cause I'm in need of somethin' good right now. We could be screamin' till the sun comes out. And when we wake we'd be the only sound Get on my knees and say a prayer to James Brown. That I can make your hands clap. That I can make your hands clap." A) Metaphor. B) Rhetorical Question. C) Allusion. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 20. Who is the author of "Ransom of Red Chief" and "Gift of the Magi?" A) O. Hank. B) Oh Henry. C) O. Henry. D) Henry Oh. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) O. Henry. ← 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