This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 488 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 488 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which figurative language is this an example of:The bathroom was as clean as a whistle. A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 2. "After the long run, he collapsed in the grass with tired and burning muscles. The grass tickled his skin and sweat cooled on his brow." A) Imagery using touch. B) Imagery using sound. C) Example of metaphor. D) Example of hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery using touch. 3. The NAACP's sit-in was a great way to get people to think. A) Objective. B) Subjective. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Subjective. 4. How do the marionettes represent the characters' desires? A) They symbolize the mundane aspects of their lives. B) They allude to the characters' personalities. C) They control and manipulate their relationships. D) They embody the freedom and control they seek. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They embody the freedom and control they seek. 5. "The trees listened to the rumbling beneath the volcano's surface" is an example of ..... A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Irony. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 6. Represents safety, openness, community A) Conch. B) Beach. C) Mask. D) Glasses. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Beach. 7. He has been in so many accidents, he must have nine lives. A) Idiom. B) Analogy. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 8. What literary device is being used in the sentence 'The black cat crossing your path signifies bad luck'? A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Irony. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbolism. 9. "I saw through her meanness which was a cloud that hung over her and chased her." (this is an example of ..... ) A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 10. The author's attitude towards the topic A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Hyperbole. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 11. "With the injuries the Cowboys have endured, this season had become a sinking ship." This is an example of ..... A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Imagery. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 12. True or false? An element of Gothic literature could involve the supernatural or the implication of the supernatural. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 13. Which of these tones best describes Tupac's poem? Ambition Over Adversity by Tupac Shakur Take one's adversity Learn from their misfortune Learn from their pain Believe in something Believe in yourself Turn adversity into ambition Now blossom into wealth A) Angry. B) Irritated. C) Confused. D) Encouraging. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Encouraging. 14. A comparison using "like" or "as" and which is often considered weaker than a more direct comparison is called ..... A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Allusion. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 15. Comedy A) A writer's account of some other person's life. B) Writing that deals with life in a humorous way, often poking fun at people's mistakes. C) A made-up story that is based on a real time and place in history, so fact is mixed with fiction. D) Writing that attempts to show life as it really is. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Writing that deals with life in a humorous way, often poking fun at people's mistakes. 16. A reference to someone or something commonly known from literature, history, religion, or other areas of popular culture. A) Allusion. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 17. A Greek term meaning 'side by side' that is a rhetorical term in which phrases and clauses are placed one after another independently, without coordinating or subordinating them through the use of conjunctions. A) Formation. B) Idiom. C) Discourse. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Formation. 18. The feeling the reader gets from a piece of literature A) Theme. B) Symbolism. C) Verbal irony. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mood. 19. Persuasive writing is meant to convince the readers of a particular opinion. To make it convincing, support opinions with facts. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 20. When something bad happens to a friend and you feel bad about it. It hasn't really happened to you, but you feel bad for them ..... A) Anaphora. B) Sympathy. C) Apathy. D) Empathy. 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