This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 500 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 500 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The conclusion of the action; how the story comes to an end A) Exposition. B) Resolution. C) Climax. D) Falling action. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Resolution. 2. Non-defining relative clauses A) Provide us with essential information. B) Have two relative pronouns. C) Haven't got a relative pronoun. D) Give additional and non-essential information. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Give additional and non-essential information. 3. Themes are ..... A) Complete statements or thoughts. B) Hard to understand. C) Only relevant for a few individuals. D) Not found in real life. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Complete statements or thoughts. 4. Words that sound similar to the sound they are describing A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) Allusion. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 5. Transform the following simile into a metaphor:You, with your words like knives A) Your words are knives. B) Your words are like knives. C) I like your words like knives. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Your words are knives. 6. What point of view comes from the perspective of a character and uses the pronouns "I", "we", or "us" ? A) First person. B) Second person. C) Third person. D) Omniscient narration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) First person. 7. When we refer to this, we are staying that something occurs very rarely A) Once in a Blue Moon. B) A Chip on One's Shoulder. C) Sold Down the River. D) Scapegoat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Once in a Blue Moon. 8. What literary device is used? "Your name is longer than you are." A) Irony. B) Hyperbole. C) Malapropism. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 9. This device could present itself as:cheerful, excited, inspired, motivated, fearful, hopeful, or nostalgic A) Mood. B) Emotion. C) Ethos. D) Characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mood. 10. How can an author create a slow-paced narrative? A) By using short sentences and simple language. B) By incorporating a lot of dialogue between characters. C) By including descriptive details and inner thoughts of the characters. D) By introducing unexpected plot twists and turns. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) By including descriptive details and inner thoughts of the characters. 11. Putting two very different ideas, objects, characters, etc. together for compare and contrast purposes. A) Juxtaposition. B) Conflict. C) Oxymoron. D) Compare and contrast. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Juxtaposition. 12. "Hello darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you again ..... " (Paul Simon, The Sounds of Silence). Identity the literary device A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Assonance. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 13. "The big sycamore by the creek was gone. The willow tangle was gone. The little enclave of untrodden bluegrass was gone. The clump of dogwood on the little rise across the creek-now that, too, was gone ..... " is an example of: A) Interplay. B) Anaphora. C) Epistrophe. D) Folding. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Epistrophe. 14. Clouds are like frisky puppies. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 15. Plot Elements:the part of the story's plot where the main problem is resolved or worked out. Follows the falling action. A) Exposition. B) Rising Action. C) Climax. D) Resolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Resolution. 16. The automobile is as fast as my pick-up truck. A) Hyperbole. B) Not a hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Not a hyperbole. 17. A statement that contradicts itself is the definition of which term? A) Irony. B) Oxymoron. C) Juxtaposition. D) Paradox. E) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Paradox. 18. Identify the correct literary device/technique: "She is as blind as a bat." A) Metaphor. B) Symbolism. C) Oxymoron. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 19. A persuasive technique used in speaking of writing to make someone agree with you. A) Bias. B) Rhetoric. C) Figurative language. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhetoric. 20. "Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) continued her longstanding pattern of not understanding how things work." is an example of ..... A) Mind reading. B) Flawed logic. C) Unsubstantiated claim. D) Spin. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Unsubstantiated claim. ← 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