This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 461 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 461 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The theme is a lesson learned; the moral of the story. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 2. When one thing represents another. For example-the stripes on the flag represent the blood shed of our soldiers A) Foreshadowing. B) Allusion. C) Oxymoron. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbol. 3. A literary device that alludes to, or suggests, a plot point later in the story. A) Personification. B) Foreshadowing. C) Irony. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foreshadowing. 4. What is the paragraph foreshadowing? 'Peter I don't think we should jump out of a plane like this.' Allison relax I'm the King and you're my general. What could go wrong? A) Something goes wrong. B) Nothing goes wrong. C) Allison inherits the throne. D) They jump off a plane. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Something goes wrong. 5. The Statue of Liberty is an example of a ..... A) Symbol. B) Visual. C) Imagery. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Symbol. 6. You should make every attempt to bury the hatchet. A) Irony. B) Sarcasm. C) Paradox. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Idiom. 7. When the sound of a word suggests its meaning A) Symbol. B) Dialogue. C) Theme. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 8. A commonly recurring element throughout a work: A) Foreshadowing. B) Moral. C) Motif. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Motif. 9. An author's use of images and symbols to represent other ideas or realities A) Hyperbole. B) Imagination. C) Symbolism. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbolism. 10. To show how something is DIFFERENT is to A) Contrast. B) Compare. C) Foreshadow. D) Conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Contrast. 11. Protagonist is: A) A character that is different at the beginning and end of the story. B) The main character. C) The enemy of the main character. D) A character that is the same at the start and end of a story. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The main character. 12. To stop or cease A) Macabre. B) Beguile. C) Surcease. D) Dirges. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Surcease. 13. ..... is a device that moves an audience from the present moment in a chronological narrative to a scene in the past. Often, they are abrupt interjections that further explain a story or character with background information and memories. A) Foreshadowing. B) Flashback. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flashback. 14. How can we tell that Woodson (the writer) is telling us something important in her writing? A) She separates it from the other lines. B) She repeats it. C) She makes it rhyme. D) She puts parentheses ( ) around it. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She repeats it. 15. Caricature A) Spoken lines between characters. B) Exaggeration or distortion of a physical trait or behavior, to make a character appear comic or ridiculous. C) The most exciting moment of the story. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exaggeration or distortion of a physical trait or behavior, to make a character appear comic or ridiculous. 16. Which of the following is an example of first person? A) She, he. B) You. C) I, me, we. D) None of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) I, me, we. 17. Whoosh, passing breeze flags flutter and flap frog croaks, bird whistles babbling bubbles from tap-Lee Emmett A) Onomatopoeia. B) Hyperbole. C) Assonance. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 18. Simile or metaphor?That girl is as tough as nails. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 19. Which literary term is showcased in the following quote:Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun. A) Epiphany. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 20. In which point of view does the author speak directly to the readers using the pronouns 'you', 'your', and 'yours'? A) Second Person. B) Third Person. C) Omniscient Third-Person. D) First Person. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Second Person. ← 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