This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 466 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 466 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Outside narrator that knows "everything" A) Limited/3rd person. B) 1st person. C) Omniscient/3rd person. D) Narrator in the story. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Omniscient/3rd person. 2. "And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming." This phrase refers to the literary device ..... ? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Assonance . Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 3. Billy goes to Bath for vacation. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 4. Which word means to paint a picture with words using literary devices? This often has a musical quality and expresses personal emotions or thoughts. A) Allusion. B) Acrostic. C) Narrative. D) Lyric. E) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lyric. 5. The literal definition of a word. A) Hyperbole. B) Connotation. C) Denotation. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Denotation. 6. In the middle of the night, the father hears the back door opening. He rushes to check on his kids, but a masked intruder is blocking the way with a knife. is an example of what literary device? A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Foreshadowing. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Foreshadowing. 7. This character actively opposes the protagonist. They can either be good or bad. A) Protagonist. B) Antagonist. C) Dynamic. D) Static. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antagonist. 8. Which figure of speech is represented in "In the morning, the snow was a blanket over the yard" ? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 9. Identify the literary device in the sentence 'The trees waved their arms in the wind.' A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Alliteration. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 10. "Purple puppies like playing on the playground." This is an example of what sound device? A) Asonance. B) Alliteration. C) Consonance. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 11. The garden is a rainbow of colors. A) Metaphor. B) Idiom. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 12. During a poetry session, Hannah read out a line:'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers'. Scarlett asked Evelyn, what literary device is used in this line? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 13. Occurs when an author HINTS about events that willhappen in the story. A) Setting. B) Foreshadowing. C) Character. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foreshadowing. 14. The struggle between opposing forces or problem the character faces A) Climax. B) Theme. C) Simile. D) Conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Conflict. 15. What are the events or actions that happen throughout a story called? A) Climax. B) Conflict. C) Plot. D) Resolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Plot. 16. Shape Verse A) Words are arranged to create a picture that relates to the content of the poem. B) The first letter of each line forms a word or phrase. Can describe the subject. C) Fourteen lines with a specific rhyme scheme, written in 3 quatrains and ends with a couplet. D) Short, usually written in first person, expresses an emotion or an idea, or describes a scene, does not tell a story and is often musical. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Words are arranged to create a picture that relates to the content of the poem. 17. Identify the simile in the following sentence:'The waves crashed against the shore like thunder.'a) waves crashedb) against the shorec) like thunderd) The A) The. B) Waves crashed. C) Like thunder. D) Against the shore. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Like thunder. 18. Dunbar's line "We wear the mask that grins and lies" is an example of ..... A) Of similarity. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 19. It was raining and cold outside and Mr. St. Clair was irritated and grumbled, "Lovely weather outside, huh?" A) Verbal irony. B) Dramatic irony. C) Situational irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Verbal irony. 20. Poetry that has no regular rhyme scheme, rhythm or line length A) Free verse. B) Internal rhyme. C) Synecdoche. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free verse. ← 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