This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 487 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 487 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What literary device does the Rodgers and Hammerstein song "Do I love you because you're beautiful? Or are you beautiful because I love you?" illustrate? A) Aphorism. B) Chiasmus. C) Metaphor. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chiasmus. 2. What does the word "Ideas" mean? A) One way to spell a word. B) Playing computer games all night. C) Getting food late at night. D) The point of view using evidence to support one's thoughts. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The point of view using evidence to support one's thoughts. 3. Hints or clues in a story that suggest what action is to come are referred to as this ..... A) Mood. B) Foreshadowing. C) Symbols. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foreshadowing. 4. What literary device is being used in the sentence 'The sky is a canvas painted with clouds'? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 5. What is the name of the following literary device? "Her lovely voice is music to my ears." A) Rhyme. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 6. The train slowed to a crawl. A) Simile. B) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 7. When the narrator is all knowing ..... A) Third Person. B) Omniscient. C) First Person. D) Second Person. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Omniscient. 8. "He was following his brother around like a lost puppy" A) Paradox. B) Simile. C) Allusion. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 9. "This town is colder now, I think it's sick of us." -OneRepublic What is this an example of? A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 10. Christina rubbed her lucky rabbit's foot before the big test. A) Flashback. B) Foreshadow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foreshadow. 11. What uses symbols to signify ideas and qualities, by giving them meanings that are different from their literal sense. A) Symbolism. B) Personification. C) Theme. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Symbolism. 12. She is a cheetah on the race track. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 13. Something happens that contradicts what the audience or reader expects. A) Situational irony. B) Dramatic irony. C) Verbal irony. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Situational irony. 14. A comparison between two unlike things using words such as like, as, resembles or than A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Allusion. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 15. Which matches the definition of tone? A) Describing two unlike things using the words "like" or "as.". B) Describing two unlike things without using the words "like" or "as.". C) The general attitude of a piece of writing. D) A collection of words that start with the same consonant sound. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The general attitude of a piece of writing. 16. A vaccine is a preparation of killed or weakened germs that is injected under the skin and causes the blood to produce antibodies against the disease. Effective vaccines, for instance, have been developed for small pox, rabies, and polio. What is the tone of the passage? A) Objective. B) Arrogant. C) Regretful. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Objective. 17. The feeling or attitude the reader receives from the characters. A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Symbolism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mood. 18. What is the following an example of ..... "Make me your radio, turn me up when you feel low ..... " A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Imagery. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 19. When the writer establishes similar patterns of grammatical structure and length A) Syntax. B) Diction. C) Parallelism. D) Cliche. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parallelism. 20. A description of an object or action that is not literal. A) Hyperbole. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. ← 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