This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 483 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 483 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When the gods step in to control a character's fate, whether it be for the better or for the worst A) Intervention of the gods. B) Conflict. C) Epic hero. D) Archetype. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Intervention of the gods. 2. "Me" is a: A) First person singular pronoun. B) Second person possessive pronoun. C) Third person singular pronoun. D) First person plural possessive pronoun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) First person singular pronoun. 3. Protagonist and antagonist are types of ..... A) Conflict. B) Points of view. C) Characters. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Characters. 4. What is a repetition of vowel sounds? A) Alliteration. B) Plosive. C) Sibilance. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Assonance. 5. Also called vowel rhyme. When the middle of words sound alike. A) Connation. B) Deotation. C) Assonance. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assonance. 6. An error in reasoning, a sneaky trick, or an illusion of thought used by politicians and the media to deceive us. A) Logical fallacy. B) Loaded language. C) Leading question. D) False assumption. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Logical fallacy. 7. This is a story or situation that shows some sort of conflict or emotion through action and dialogue. A) Poem. B) Comedy. C) Drama. D) Prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Drama. 8. Who does the father refuse as godparents for his son? A) Angel and Devil. B) God and Devil. C) Devil and Vampire. D) Vampire and Ghost. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) God and Devil. 9. Laughter is the best medicine A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 10. Which of the following contains all of the parts of the plot diagram? A) Exposition, rising action, falling action. B) Exposition, climax, denoument, conflict, setting. C) Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, denouement. D) Characters, plot, story, setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, denouement. 11. A subordinate plot in a play, novel, or similar work. A) Foreshadowing. B) Subplot. C) Flashback. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Subplot. 12. A device that playwrights and filmmakers use in order to reveal inner thoughts and judgments of characters directly to the audience. This device is necessary since the viewer has no immediate access to those thoughts and feelings other than hearing them spoken on stage. A) Allusion. B) Aside. C) Flashback. D) Antagonist. E) Protagonist. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aside. 13. Two opposites, a contradiction A) Onomatopoeia. B) Oxymoron. C) Irony. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron. 14. Sibilance A) Feeling or idea that is suggested by word although not part of its meaning. B) One sense is described using terms from another. C) Hissing sound created within a group of words through repeating "s" sounds. D) Uses negative wording or terms to express positive assertion or statement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hissing sound created within a group of words through repeating "s" sounds. 15. Determine if the sentence contains a simile or a metaphor. The dog's eyes were as black as coal. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 16. What is the name of the online catalog where you can find print resources on your topic? A) Wikipedia. B) World Book. C) Common Cause. D) Destiny. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Destiny. 17. The soft, velvety petals of the rose brushed against her fingertips as she held it. A) Visual imagery. B) Auditory imagery. C) Olfactory imagery. D) Gustatory imagery. E) Tactile imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Tactile imagery. 18. Which literary device is used to attribute human characteristics to inanimate objects or abstract ideas? A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Anthropomorphism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 19. YOU (the reader) knows something that a character in the story does not. You're "in on a secret." A) Situational irony. B) Verbal irony. C) Dramatic irony. D) Setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dramatic irony. 20. Which of the following uses colloquialism? A) Isn't. B) Can't. C) Going to. D) Lit. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lit. ← 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