This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 53 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 53 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A figure of speech that involves exaggerated or over-the-top statements for emphasis or effect A) Irony. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 2. The location or place and the time in which a story occurs A) Setting. B) Allusion. C) Apostrophe. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Setting. 3. A short story is a brief work of fiction that describes ..... events and people. A) Real. B) Imaginary. C) Old. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imaginary. 4. Do you have a ..... to run a marathon like me? I have always felt the desire to. A) Commotion. B) Penchant. C) Decorum. D) Pilgrimage. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Penchant. 5. "I have been dropped like a hot Pop Tart on a cold kitchen floor" (21) A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 6. The character who causes or represents opposition. A) Narrator. B) Protagonist. C) Antagonist. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Antagonist. 7. The action in a short story takes place over a very long time frame. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 8. What literary device is used?"You can save money by spending it." A) Malapropism. B) Foil. C) Paradox. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Paradox. 9. This figure of speech that compares two things, without using the words as/like. A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 10. "Bang" and "Crash" are examples of this literary device. A) Enallage. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Alliteration. D) Synecdoche. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 11. Repetition is when ..... A) You look at chicken. B) You repeat. C) You rh. D) You use a pattern. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) You repeat. 12. A section or speech at the end of a book or play that serves as a comment on or a conclusion to what has happened. A) Prologue. B) Epilogue. C) Conclusion. D) Introduction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epilogue. 13. Theme is the ..... idea. A) Main. B) Little. C) Second. D) Helpful. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Main. 14. 14 lines made up of 3 quatrains and 1 couplet A) Couplet. B) Quatrain. C) Sonnet. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sonnet. 15. A conflict that takes place within the mind of a character A) Conflict. B) External Conflict. C) Internal Conflict. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Internal Conflict. 16. Why is Liesel's first book important to her? A) It represents her learning to read. B) It represents the start of her new life. C) It represents the last time she saw her mother and brother. D) It represents the beginning of World War 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It represents the last time she saw her mother and brother. 17. "The moon played hide and seek with the clouds."What literary device was used in the sentence? A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 18. Wes was such a dog is an example of ..... A) Idiom. B) Assonance. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 19. What's the definition of synecdoche? A) A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole, or the whole for a part. B) The use of words which actually sound like the objects or actions to which they refer. C) A 'softer', more inoffensive word or phrase, used as a substitute for one considered too harsh or blunt, when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole, or the whole for a part. 20. "It was crystal clear" -What device is being used? A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. ← 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