This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 477 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 477 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which quote best reveals satire? A) "In terms of value for money and expectation Le Cinq supplied by far the worst restaurant experience I have endured in my 18 years in this job.". B) "I assumed it would be whimsical, and perhaps outrageous.". C) "It shouts money much as football fans shout at the ref.". D) "The dining room, deep in the hotel, is a broad space of high ceilings and coving, with thick carpets to muffle the screams.". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "The dining room, deep in the hotel, is a broad space of high ceilings and coving, with thick carpets to muffle the screams.". 2. Word choice to create a specific effect A) Dialogue. B) Diction. C) Theme. D) Setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Diction. 3. Point of view where the narrator follows one or maybe two characters using he, she, or they A) First person. B) Second person. C) Third person limited. D) Third person omniscient. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Third person limited. 4. The colors of the rainbow looked like a box of crayons. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 5. Moreover a man moved to Michigan with Mary A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 6. The young man predicted, "Basketball will be my one-way ticket out of this neighborhood and to a better life." A) H. Idiom. B) A. Simile. C) B. Metaphor. D) C. Hyperbole. E) D. Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) H. Idiom. 7. Beginning of the story, when characters, setting, and conflict are introduced A) Exposition. B) Rising action. C) Climax. D) Resolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Exposition. 8. The rising action of a story is A) At the end of the story. B) The events that build tension and suspense. C) The message the author shares with the reader. D) The introduction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The events that build tension and suspense. 9. Then the waves of the corrupted Ceres and the Cereals prepare their weapons A) Metonymy. B) Synecdoche. C) Multi-connectors. D) Synchesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metonymy. 10. Alicia Keys:She's just a girl, and she's on fire Hotter than a fantasy, longer like a highway A) Simile, allusion. B) Metaphor, alliteration. C) Irony, metaphor. D) Metaphor, simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor, simile. 11. In general, professional athletes are overpaid. A) Fact. B) Opinion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Opinion. 12. Life is a journey; travel it well. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 13. What is the plot of Illegal? A) Midnight. The ocean. Dangerous circumstances. B) A group of travelers bought a boat to travel to another country. The boat that they got was not big enough to be safe for all the travelers. Nuru, one of the travelers, is blaming Ebo for their bad luck. Ebo hopes that they will find kind people that will help them when they arrive to their destination. C) Person VS Person. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A group of travelers bought a boat to travel to another country. The boat that they got was not big enough to be safe for all the travelers. Nuru, one of the travelers, is blaming Ebo for their bad luck. Ebo hopes that they will find kind people that will help them when they arrive to their destination. 14. Which of these sentences contains a use of simile? A) The clouds were fluffy and very white. B) The clouds were as fluffy and white as cotton buds. C) The fluffy, white clouds floated through the sky. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The clouds were as fluffy and white as cotton buds. 15. A figure of speech in which an object, abstract idea, or animal is given human characteristics A) Personification. B) Symbol. C) Theme. D) Verisimilitude. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 16. This literary device gives inanimate or inhuman objects human characteristics A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 17. When a thought runs on from one line to another without final punctuation A) Paradox. B) Enjambment. C) Alliteration. D) Synecdoche. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Enjambment. 18. 'The use of objects and images to represent ideas, qualities, and emotions' defines what? A) Personification. B) Metafiction. C) Synesthesia. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbolism. 19. Wilshane has tons of video games. A) Hyperbole. B) Hyperbali. C) Hyperbole. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 20. Which of the following is an example of symbolism in literature? A) All of these are correct. B) Water symbolizing rebirth. C) Fall representing growing old. D) The color black to symbolize evil. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) All of these are correct. ← 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