This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 550 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 550 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The location, time, and situation in which a story takes place. A) Plot. B) Exposition. C) Conflict. D) Setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Setting. 2. The bird's chirp filled the empty night air.What is the literary device used in the sentence? A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 3. A very short story that is significant to the topic at hand; usually adding personal knowledge or experience to the topic A) Idiom. B) Tragedy. C) Anecdote. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anecdote. 4. Taste imagery A) Gustatory. B) Thermal. C) Kinetic. D) Aural. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gustatory. 5. When a direct comparison is made WITHOUT the use of words such as "like, " you are using what literary device? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 6. All of the following are types of satire EXCEPT A) Dramatic. B) Verbal. C) Productive. D) Situational. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Productive. 7. Identify the literary device in the following sentence:'The world is a stage.' A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 8. "He's as fast as lightning" is an example of what literary device? A) Metaphor. B) Allusion. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 9. The use of words that sound like what they mean; crunching snow, buzzing conversation, BOOM! A) Oxymoron. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 10. True or False-A flashback is the practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 11. Epic poems..... A) Are descriptive of events of epical proportions that happens nowadays. B) Are narrative poems that emphasize legendary tales of heroic figures. C) Are poems that were canonized by the literature because their poets reached epic status. D) Refers to poems made only in the Ancient Greece about the gods they worshipped. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Are narrative poems that emphasize legendary tales of heroic figures. 12. A character or group of characters who create conflict for the main character A) Antagonist. B) Protagonist. C) Minor character. D) Characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antagonist. 13. With a great roar of the mountain A) Synchesis. B) Chiasmus. C) Litotes. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 14. Meaning the narrator is restricted in what they see and know of the story A) First person POV. B) Third person omniscient POV. C) Third person limited POV. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Third person limited POV. 15. What literary device is being used below? Her voice is music to his ears. A) Imagery. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Internal rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 16. A character that has only one or two characteristics representing one or two traits A) Dramatic irony. B) Round character. C) Indirect characterization. D) Flat character. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Flat character. 17. Define:ONOMATOPOEIA? A) A joke that is a play on words. B) A common expression that doesn't mean what is said. C) Extreme exaggeration. D) Sound words. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sound words. 18. The vantage point from which the story is told A) Setting. B) Point of view. C) Tone. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Point of view. 19. Gobble A) Idiom. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 20. She drowned in a sea of grief. A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. ← 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