This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 473 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 473 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In her new dress, the little girl was as cute as a button. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Idiom. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 2. The occurrence of a word whose sound suggests its meaning. A) Voice. B) Syntax. C) Tone. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 3. Text structureThe ways in which information is organised in different types of texts (for example, chapter headings, subheadings, tables of contents, indexes and glossaries, overviews, introductory and concluding paragraphs, sequencing, topic sentences, taxonomies, cause and effect). A) Author. B) Text. C) Context. D) Audience. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Text. 4. What is a mystery? A) A suspenseful story about a puzzling event that isn't solved until the end. B) A fictional story about the past. C) Stories passed on from generations to generations. D) Story that can happen in real life. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A suspenseful story about a puzzling event that isn't solved until the end. 5. Go break a leg-in other words (good luck) A) Idiom. B) Hyperbole. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 6. The cat meowed at the door until someone let him out. A) F. Naming. B) A. Simile. C) B. Metaphor. D) C. Hyperbole. E) D. Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) F. Naming. 7. In the sentence 'I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse!', what literary device is being used? A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 8. "The Interlopers" gave both characters' perspectives, which means it is written in A) First person. B) Third person limited. C) Third person omniscient. D) ". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Third person omniscient. 9. Which type of irony is where an event or action shows the OPPOSITE of what is expected? A) Situational. B) Verbal. C) Sarcasm. D) Traditional. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Situational. 10. Which of the following is alliteration? A) She sells seashells by the seashore. B) The mind is a computer. C) The wind murmured through the trees. D) The rain came down, down, down. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She sells seashells by the seashore. 11. Anecdote A) A short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person. B) An idea that many people have about a person or a group of people that is usually untrue or only partly true. C) An idea, symbol, pattern, or character type in a story. D) The way an author describes a character. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person. 12. Find the simile in the sentences: A) Her smile was as bright as the sun on a summer day. B) Her smile was ice on a winter day. C) Her smile was pillow soft. D) Her smile was beautiful. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Her smile was as bright as the sun on a summer day. 13. What do you call five pairs of unstressed and stressed syllable in poetry? Example:By her fine foot, straight leg, and quivering thigh ..... A) Symbolism. B) Comic relief. C) Iambic pentameter. D) Blank verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Iambic pentameter. 14. Which of these sentences contains alliteration? A) The waves washed lazily along the shore. B) The Great Wall basked sinuously in the sunlight like some magnificent snake. C) London was a maze of bustling streets and secret alleyways. D) The mountain range brooded moodily beneath the thunder clouds. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The waves washed lazily along the shore. 15. Which is an example of third person point of view? A) I made a sandwich. We went to the store to buy some milk. B) First, gather your ingredients. Then add 1 cup of sugar to the batter. C) He went to the store to buy milk so she could make brownies. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He went to the store to buy milk so she could make brownies. 16. Interrupted Sentence-The thought of a sentence is interrupted by evidence or details, usually set off by a dash (2 hyphens). A) "My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition toread departed, the cheerful spark thatlingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; andbehold a man transformed into abrute!" (38). B) Stops the reader-to show importance of added detail-before writer finishes his idea.Can emphasize length of list-it seems never ending-or the inevitability or in es capability of a situation. C) Robert E. Lee was a foe without hate, a friend without treachery, a soldier without cruelty. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stops the reader-to show importance of added detail-before writer finishes his idea.Can emphasize length of list-it seems never ending-or the inevitability or in es capability of a situation. 17. After the teacher took attendance, Sandra was shocked when she saw that James was back in class. Sandra thought about what happened last week at school when James was involved in several fights with other students. What is this an example of? A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Foreshadowing. D) Flashback. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Flashback. 18. "Mark is as fast as a cheetah." This is an example of: A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Idiom. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 19. What is this an example of? "The Turtle" 'breaks from the blue-black skin of the water, dragging her shell with its mossy scutes' A) Imagery. B) Simile. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 20. What type of figurative language is shown? The flower hugged the earth after being blown over by the storm. A) Personification. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. ← 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