This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 57 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 57 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. This type of irony is used when the reader knows something that a character does not. A) Situational irony. B) Dramatic irony. C) Verbal irony. D) Clothes ironing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dramatic irony. 2. This class is a million years long! A) Euphemism. B) Oxymoron. C) Hyperbole. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 3. The character in any story, novel, or movie that goes against the main character; the "bad guy" A) Antagonist. B) Protagonist. C) Round Character. D) Static Character. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antagonist. 4. The dying plant placed by the windowsill in A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry A) Symbolism. B) Situational Irony. C) Frame Tale. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Symbolism. 5. In the phrase 'The whispering winds told tales of a coming tempest', which literary device is being used? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 6. Which is not one of the 5 senses? A) Touch. B) Taste. C) Smell. D) Talk. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Talk. 7. Bat and cat are at the track is an example of ..... A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Similes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assonance. 8. A figure of speech in which words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words. It may also be a situation that ends up in quite a different way than what is generally anticipated. It is a difference between appearance and reality. This is known as A) Paradox. B) Connotation. C) Idiom. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Irony. 9. "Across the pond a bullfrog spoke a deep note of warning." A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 10. What is the best definition of figurative language? A) Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling. B) A conversation between characters or speakers in a literary work or the speech of characters in a drama. C) A recurring subject, theme, or idea in a literary work. D) A device in literature when an object or thing represents an idea. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling. 11. Which is an visual imagery A) Sour fruit. B) Deafening sound. C) Multicoloured dress. D) Speak silent. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Multicoloured dress. 12. Identify the literary device in the sentence 'The world is a stage.' A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 13. I have a red car. My car was in a wreck. Therefore, all red cars get wrecked. A) Hasty generalization. B) Either-or fallacy. C) Round about reasoning. D) Ad hominem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hasty generalization. 14. Emotion, that affects literature. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Pun. C) Tone. D) Internal Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tone. 15. If the author directly tells you what the character is like, that is: A) Direct characterization. B) Indirect characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Direct characterization. 16. What is a whiplash ending? A) A tragic ending. B) A happy ending. C) A surprise ending. D) A story with no ending. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A surprise ending. 17. Each time a person speaks, we call this ..... A) Dialogue. B) Indent. C) Quotation mark. D) Sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dialogue. 18. What is the arrangement of rhyme at the end of a line of poetry? A) Personification. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme scheme. 19. This type of imagery is use address to our taste buds. This way the writer is capable of making us taste the food he or she is describing in the story. A) Visual imagery. B) Olfactory imagery. C) Gustatory imagery. D) Auditory imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gustatory imagery. 20. When an author tells the audience what the personality of the character is A) Mood. B) Indirect characterization. C) Sensory details. D) Direct characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Direct characterization. ← 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