This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 464 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 464 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A figure of speech comparing two things NOT using "like" or "as"; Ex:it's raining cats and dogs! A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Imagery. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 2. Which of the following is NOT true about theme? A) Themes can be applied to situations outside of the story. B) Themes come from asking what the author is trying to teach readers. C) Themes only apply to one story. D) Themes usually don't take a stance on the conflict in the story. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Themes only apply to one story. 3. ..... uses like or as in their literary device. A) Symbolism. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 4. Which literary device is this an example of? "Her mouth was a fountain of delight." A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Comparison. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 5. A person or force who opposes the main character A) Protagonist. B) Antagonist. C) Foil. D) Round character. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antagonist. 6. A narrator is telling the story but isn't a character in the story A) 1st person. B) 2nd person. C) 3rd person. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3rd person. 7. Mentioning the Beatles, Mustangs, and Corvairs in The Outsiders are examples of A) Puns. B) Foreshadowing. C) Allusions. D) Conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusions. 8. ..... is an implied or indirect reference to a person, event, or thing within a text. The reference has a historical, cultural, literary or political significance so that most readers will understand the reference being made. A) Irony. B) Alliteration. C) Symbolism. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 9. ..... sentences end with a period. A) Declarative. B) Exclamatory. C) Imperative. D) Interrogative. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Declarative. 10. The process by which a writer reveals the personality of an individual in a story or play A) Characterization. B) Conflict. C) Dialect. D) Dialogue. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Characterization. 11. This is the part of the story that notifies the reader of the story's characters, setting and conflict: A) Resolution. B) Exposition. C) Conclusion. D) Rising action. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exposition. 12. Rage, Rage against the dying day is an example of ..... A) Repetition. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 13. Repeated consonant sounds at the ends of words On the top of the step he will tip his cap. A) Alliteration. B) Consonance. C) Assonance. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Consonance. 14. Which of the following choices is an example of a metaphor? A) She is as sly as a cat. B) Traffic is taking a million years!. C) The camera loves her. D) My parents are early birds. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) My parents are early birds. 15. What is epistrophe? A) The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of a phrase or sentence. B) The repetition of a word or phrase at the end of a phrase or sentence. C) The repetition of the last word of the previous sentence in the first word of the next. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The repetition of a word or phrase at the end of a phrase or sentence. 16. Description or figurative language (visual, auditory, olfactory, kinesthetic, tactile, & gustatory) A) Irony. B) The sets. C) Theme. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 17. Hints or clues about what will happen later in the story. A) Blank verse. B) Foreshadowing. C) Allusion. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foreshadowing. 18. A scene in a story that interrupts the action of the story to show an event that happened at an earlier time. A) Foreshadowing. B) Flashback. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flashback. 19. A character that adapts, changes, or grows during the course of the story A) Round character. B) Flat character. C) Dynamic character. D) Static character. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dynamic character. 20. A style of poem written with a consistent rhythm of 10 syllables per line and 5 "heartbeats" per line. A) Dramatic Irony. B) Free Verse. C) Iambic Pentameter. D) Blank Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Iambic Pentameter. ← 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