This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 489 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 489 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "In every cry of every Man, / In every infants cry, of fear, / In every voice:in every ban" A) Epistrophe. B) Anaphora. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anaphora. 2. Long hair is the Greaser's pride. A) Symbolism. B) Suspense. C) Irony. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Symbolism. 3. Support in an argument that both sides would agree with ..... defines the following term A) Premise. B) Claim. C) Primary source. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Premise. 4. What literary device is used in the phrase 'the wind howled'? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 5. A use of obvious exaggeration for rhetorical effect. A) Rhetorical question. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Sibilance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 6. In the story A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, a penny-pinching and bitter Ebenezer Scrooge values money more than people.What is the meaning of the allusion in the sentence below?Our neighbor has a reputation for being a Scrooge, so we don't even stop at his door any more when we're fundraising. A) Generous. B) Kind. C) Stingy. D) Jealous. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stingy. 7. Which literary device creates suspense and highlights something that will be important later? A) Flashback. B) Foreshadowing. C) Tone. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foreshadowing. 8. The Cyclops ate the men "still wriggling, the way a cat eats a grasshopper ..... "(8) A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 9. The phrase 'the world is a stage' is an example of ..... A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 10. Flat A) Character stays the same. B) Character changes throughout the story. C) One-sided character. D) Many-sided character. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) One-sided character. 11. The use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same or similar in their construction, sound, or meaning. A) Parallelism. B) Rhythm. C) Rhyme. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parallelism. 12. Compares two objects by using "like" or "as" A) Imagery. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Symbolism. E) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Simile. 13. Words or phrases that appeal to any of the five senses. A) Simile. B) Imagery. C) Symbol. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 14. What figurative language is used in this sentence?"The boy was a statue when the train passed him by" A) Simile. B) Refrain. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 15. When words or phrases are repeated in a literary work A) Personification. B) Imagery. C) Repetition. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 16. What type of figurative language is a comparison between two unlike things using LIKE or AS? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 17. An account of a conversation or action that happened before the beginning of the story or at an earlier point A) Foreshadowing. B) Flashback. C) Remembrance. D) Plot. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flashback. 18. A comparison using "like" or "as" (velut, similis) A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Allusion. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 19. My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. A) Metaphor. B) Allegory. C) Synecdoche. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Parallelism. 20. Explain Logos in the context of rhetorical devices. A) Appealing to a person's moral character. B) Appealing to a person's emotions. C) Appealing to a person's logic/reasoning. D) Comparison w/a concept. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Appealing to a person's logic/reasoning. ← 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