This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 47 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 47 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The use of words whose sounds imitate or suggest their meaning A) Figure of Speech. B) Analogy. C) Simile. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 2. What is the word that describes the turning point or the point of great suspense or action? A) Main idea. B) Rising action. C) Climax. D) Exposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Climax. 3. Exaggeration used to emphasize a point, often for comedic or dramatic effect. A) Understatement. B) Hyperbole. C) Satire. D) Overstatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Overstatement. 4. "The stars will cry." A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 5. Words are used in quick succession and begin with letters belonging to the same sound group. A) Allusion. B) Anagram. C) Analogy. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 6. Definition-a reference to something else. It's when a writer mentions some other work, or refers to an earlier part of the current work. Example- "A single grain of rice can tip the scale-one man may be the difference between victory and defeat. [Cut to an image of Mulan picking up a single grain of rice with her chopsticks.]" A) Atmosphere. B) Imagery. C) Allusion. D) Symbol. E) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 7. To identify similarities between two ideas, events, characters, settings, etc. A) Compare. B) Contrast. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Compare. 8. This conflict pits man against machine. A) Man vs. Man. B) Man vs. Nature. C) Man vs. Technology. D) Man vs. Self. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Man vs. Technology. 9. The literary device, Flashback, means ..... A) A technique where the author provides hints about future events in a story. B) A scene in a movie, novel, etc., set in a time earlier than the main story. C) A sudden and disturbing vivid memory of an event in the past. D) A technique where the author describes the physical appearance of a character in detail. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A scene in a movie, novel, etc., set in a time earlier than the main story. 10. Showing favor toward one side; a preconceived opinion about someone/thing usually based on prejudice. A) Bias. B) Rhetoric. C) Figurative language. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bias. 11. When someone says something but means the opposite A) Situational irony. B) Dramatic irony. C) Verbal irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Verbal irony. 12. What is the tone of the following text? "I will not!" she shouted. "I will not be left at the mercy of our enemies while you slink away!" (108). A) Pleased. B) Angry. C) Happy. D) Suspicious. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Angry. 13. Has only one or two personality traits A) Round character. B) Flat character. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flat character. 14. Laughter was always heard in my grandfather's house. The house was full of big belly laughs, polite chuckles, heavy laughs, light laughs, laughs that went on for minutes at a time, and short bursts of laughter that came and were gone in a second. What I remember most about visiting my grandfather's house was the laughter. The most likely reason the writer of this passage repeats "laugh" and "laughter" is to A) Remind the reader how to spell the words. B) Use fewer different words. C) Create the effect of being surrounded by the sound. D) Make the passage easier to read for beginners. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Create the effect of being surrounded by the sound. 15. Compares one object to another by using like or as A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 16. Inciting Incident A) The development of the conflict. B) The turning point of the story. C) The event that begins the story's conflict. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The event that begins the story's conflict. 17. Shift A) A pattern stressed and unstressed syllables, each part of the pattern is called a foot. B) A group of words together on one line of the poem. C) Also known as imperfect or "close enough" rhyme. The words share EITHER the same or consonant sound BUT NOT BOTH. D) A turn that expresses a change in the poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A turn that expresses a change in the poem. 18. If you want to write a paper that tries to convince a person of a point of view it would be called what type of paper? A) Research. B) Expository. C) Persuasive / Argumentative. D) Narrative. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Persuasive / Argumentative. 19. The use of vivid description to create a picture in the reader's mind is what type of figurative language? A) Simile. B) Idiom. C) Personification. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 20. A group of more than one line; often separated from other groups of lines by a space. A) Quatrain. B) Stanza. C) Couplet. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. ← 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