This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 546 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 546 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "Dreams are balloons floating in the sky" A) Alliteration. B) Illusion. C) Metaphor. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 2. A similar dominant or recurring element in folk tales, advertising, or political campaigns A) Motif. B) Foil. C) Poetry. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Motif. 3. Before the teacher could assign homework, the class was saved by the bell. A) Allusion. B) Cliche. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cliche. 4. Creates a picture in the reader's mind by making the reader see, hear, taste, smell, or touch what is being described A) Analogy. B) Personification. C) Imagery. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 5. ANIMAL FARM was published at the end of: A) WWI. B) WWII. C) Vietnam War. D) Gulf War. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) WWII. 6. What literary device is used in the sentence 'The sun smiled at us'? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 7. Used step-by-step in literature to highlight and explain the details about a character in a story. It is in the initial stage in which the writer introduces the character with noticeable emergence. After introducing the character, the writer often talks about his behavior; then, as the story progresses, the thought-processes of the character. A) Characterization. B) Assonance. C) Analogy. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Characterization. 8. What is the definition of caesura in poetry? A) The use of exaggerated language or claims for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect. B) The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses. C) A pause or break within a line of verse. D) A type of rhyme in poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A pause or break within a line of verse. 9. My father just gave me the talk about the birds and the bees. A) Euphemism. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Euphemism. 10. When you as the reader know everything A-Dawg is thinking and feeling, this is ..... point of view, or all knowing A) First person limited. B) Second person. C) Fourth Wall Break. D) Omniscient. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Omniscient. 11. "It was raining, a slow, cold drizzle that for weeks had been descending from soggy black clouds. The graveyard was a slough of yellow, sucking mud, from which the rain-washed tombstones stood up in irregular battalions." (from Henry Kuttner's "The Graveyard Rats")Which literary device is being utilized throughout the above quote? A) Imagery. B) Parallel Structure. C) Simile. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 12. "It's so dark, " he thought, "that I could sleep without closing my eyes." A) Personification. B) Allusion. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 13. Which of the following is used in the sentence? Christian is a hungry wolf. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. E) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 14. All that buzz, buzz, buzz and pop, pop, pop! A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 15. The city was a jungle is an example of ..... A) Alliteration. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 16. What is the term for the repetition of initial consonant sounds in a series of words? A) Allegory. B) Alliteration. C) Allusion. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 17. Your brain is the size of a pea! A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 18. In literature, a symbol is an object that represents a ..... A) A theme. B) A conflict. C) An idea. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 19. When the writer tells you something about the character directly. A) Characterization (direct). B) Characterization (indirect). C) Imagery. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Characterization (direct). 20. The bees were buzzing all day long. What is the literary device used here? A) Onomatopoeia. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. ← 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