This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 470 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 470 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The plot element that drives the action in a story. Man vs Man, Man vs Society, etc. A) Characterization. B) Rising Action. C) Conflict. D) Setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Conflict. 2. What is the persuasive appeal that is based on trust, usually featuring a celebrity or professional? A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 3. The stars are winking at me. What is the literary device used here? A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Alliteration. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 4. Kelly wore her hair in pigtails like Britney Spears. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 5. Home = where you live A) Metaphor. B) Connotation. C) Denotation. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Denotation. 6. My love to my students is like an endless ocean. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Rhyme. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 7. What literary device is being used in the following stanza? "O my Luve's like a red, red rose That's newly sprung in June; O my Luve's like the melodie That's sweetly played in tune." A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 8. ..... refers to the introduction of a story, where the characters and setting are introduced. A) Exposition. B) Rising action. C) Climax. D) Resolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Exposition. 9. External Conflict is: A) A problem the character(s) in the novel face. B) A problem the main character has with themselves. C) A problem the main character has with other people, society, or nature. D) The enemy of the main character. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A problem the main character has with other people, society, or nature. 10. "I searched for the perfect program to peruse several small suggestions swiftly." is an example of ..... A) Idiom. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) There is no figurative language used. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 11. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. A) Litotes. B) Allusion. C) Hyperbole. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Litotes. 12. "I gazed-and gazed-but little thought/ What the show to me had brought:" includes an example of: A) Simile. B) Repetition. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 13. What type of literary device is found in the following quite: "Can't you see they smell like a broom" (14). A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 14. The sun smiled at the small child sitting around the flowers in the park is an example of ..... A) Idiom. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Cliche. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 15. A metaphor is a comparison of two UNLIKE things A) Using like or as to compare the two things. B) Not using like or as to compare the two things. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Not using like or as to compare the two things. 16. The trip to the beach was great! One flat tire, petrol shortage and water everywhere but not a drop to drink! A) SARCASM. B) IRONY. C) PUN. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) SARCASM. 17. Which literary device is shown here?674 hic nux, hic mixta est rugosis carica palmis A) Juxtaposition. B) Anaphora. C) Chiasmus. D) Polyptoton. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anaphora. 18. When non-human thing is given human characteristics A) Theme. B) Oxymoron. C) Denotation. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 19. The wall stared at me silently. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 20. What does the term 'epistrophe' refer to? A) A literary device where a word or phrase is repeated at the end of successive sentences or clauses. B) A literary device where a word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of successive sentences or clauses. C) A species of bird. D) An architectural style. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A literary device where a word or phrase is repeated at the end of successive sentences or clauses. ← 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