This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 553 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 553 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Emotional, emotive, ardent, vehement. A) Opinion. B) Neutral. C) Logical. D) Passionate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Passionate. 2. The giraffe nibbled at the leaves on the tree. A) Literal language. B) Figurative language. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Literal language. 3. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, A) Rhyme. B) Assonance. C) Dysphemism. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 4. Bonus Question for Mrs. McAuliffe's students:WHO is the narrator in the O. Henry story "Memoirs of a Yellow Dog?" Take a guess if you do not know this story ..... A) The man in the tavern. B) The dog. C) The "fat lady". D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The dog. 5. The use of multimedia enhances the teaching of lessons and aims to ..... who are engaged in Online Distance Learning. A) Further confuse learners. B) Further educate learners. C) Further waste learners' time. D) Further entertain with computer gaming world. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Further waste learners' time. 6. The direct comparison of two unlike things whith the intent of giving added meaning to them. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Pun. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 7. He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth means ..... A) He was born to a rich family. B) He was born hungry. C) He was born with teeth. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He was born to a rich family. 8. SImile:element or technique? A) Literary element. B) Literary technique. C) Both. D) Neither. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Literary technique. 9. A reference to a famous person or event in life or literature (i.e. She is as pretty as the Mona Lisa) A) Allusion. B) Verbal Irony. C) Denotation. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 10. In the sentence 'The car engine coughed and sputtered', what literary device is being used? A) Hyperbole. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 11. This resort looks like the Garden of Eden A) Personification. B) Consonance. C) Oxymoron. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 12. What is the best mood of this line from Paperwick Papers by Charles Dickens? "The river, reflecting the clear blue of the sky, glistened and sparkled as it flowed noiselessly on." A) Happy and excited. B) Peaceful and calm. C) Somber and depresses. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Peaceful and calm. 13. The order of events in a literary work. A) Theme. B) Personification. C) Protagonist. D) Plot. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Plot. 14. What's the definition of a simile? A) A figure of speech that implies a comparison between two relatively unlikely things. B) A comparison between two unlike things, usually with the words 'like' or 'as'. C) An exaggerated statement used to emphasize a point. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A comparison between two unlike things, usually with the words 'like' or 'as'. 15. What is the role of foreshadowing in literature? A) Foreshadowing has no role in literature. B) Foreshadowing is used to create suspense and anticipation in the reader. C) Foreshadowing is used to describe the physical appearance of characters. D) Foreshadowing is used to improve grammar and punctuation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foreshadowing is used to create suspense and anticipation in the reader. 16. "My brain is a pinball machine" is an example of ..... A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 17. Refers to words whose pronunciations imitate the sounds they describe. A dog's bark sounds like "woof, " so "woof" is an example of A) Personification. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Suspense. D) Symbolism. E) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 18. Let every nation know that we shall pay and price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. A) Repetition. B) Antithesis. C) Rhetorical question. D) Parallel structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Parallel structure. 19. Dominant or recurring idea in a text. A) Repetition. B) Motif. C) Sibilance. D) Emotive language. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Motif. 20. Disturbing or horrifying, dealing with death and injury A) Macabre. B) Dirge. C) Rice sansae. D) Surcease. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Macabre. ← 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