This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 547 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 547 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following refers to using LIKE or AS to make a direct comparison between two unlike things? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 2. The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, often lacking meaningful content. A) Satire. B) Irony. C) Pathos. D) Rhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhetoric. 3. Which literary device is used to give human qualities to non-human objects or animals? A) Anthropomorphism. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 4. Who is an evil owl who rules over Dimwood Forest? A) Lungwort. B) Ragweed. C) Poppy. D) Mr. Ocax. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mr. Ocax. 5. Which of the following sounds like the best definition of literary analysis? A) Reading a story to find interesting words. B) Examining a story for literary devices and meaning. C) Examining a story for mistakes and errors. D) Reading a story to trash talk the author. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Examining a story for literary devices and meaning. 6. These are the two personal pronouns which SHOULD NOT appear in an essay A) That, because. B) I, you. C) Me, because. D) Go, get. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I, you. 7. A recurring idea, often times sounds as advice. A) Plot. B) Climax. C) Theme. D) Setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theme. 8. The time, place, societal situation, and weather in which the action of a narrative occurs. A) Setting. B) Point of view. C) Conflict. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Setting. 9. A type of metaphor attributing human feelings to an object. A) Personification. B) Allusion. C) Synonym. D) Allegory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 10. Define "epithet" A) An adjective that points out a characteristic of an object. B) An conscious exaggeration meant to highlight something. C) Inanimate objects given human-like traits. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An adjective that points out a characteristic of an object. 11. Which of the following sensory images is expressed in lines 3 to 7? A) Feeling. B) Sight. C) Smell. D) Sound. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sight. 12. ..... is a comparison between 2 things using "like" or "as" A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 13. Once upon a time, there was a little girl who lived with her mother. Her mother asked her to take her old and lonely grandmother some food one day. "Don't stop along the way. Go straight to your Grandma's house and back. Don't talk to any strangers and watch out for the wolf in the woods! Now get along!" Which sentence is an example of foreshadowing? A) Don't talk to any strangers and watch out for the wolf in the woods!. B) Once upon a time, there was a little girl who lived with her mother. C) Now get along!. D) Her mother asked her to take her old and lonely grandmother some food one day. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Don't talk to any strangers and watch out for the wolf in the woods!. 14. Mary looked away and shifted her feet when her father asked where the money went. A) Direct Characterization. B) Indirect Characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Indirect Characterization. 15. What is a comparison made directly or indirectly without using 'like' or 'as'? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 16. A rhetorical appeal that appeals to ethics; credibility of source. Ex:A Nike commercial with Lebron James. A) Pathos. B) Logos. C) Ethos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ethos. 17. Difference between appearance and reality. A) Irony. B) Apostrophe. C) Personification. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irony. 18. A hint as to the outcome of a conflict or "the" conflict (denouement) is known as ..... A) Complicating factor. B) Conflicts. C) Dilemma. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Foreshadowing. 19. The use of figurative language to evoke a sensory experience or create a picture with words for the reader; writers appeal to ALL of the reader's senses to evoke emotion and feeling A) Imagery. B) Personification. C) Situational irony. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 20. Writing or saying one thing but meaning the opposite is ..... A) Verbal irony. B) Hubris. C) Dramatic irony. D) Writing or saying one thing but meaning the opposite. 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