This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 60 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 60 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. I am going to go powder my nose. Are you coming? A) Metaphor. B) Euphemisms. C) Tautology. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Euphemisms. 2. Comparison between 2 unalike things using like or as A) Irony. B) Simile. C) Imagery. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 3. A press conference by the Pentagon A) Metonymy. B) Synecdoche. C) Oxymoron. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metonymy. 4. This term means to use a strong exaggeration: A) Personification. B) Idiom. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 5. After questioning him about the pronunciation of his name, Igor tells him that HIS name is actually pronounced as what? A) Argor. B) Eee-gor. C) Eye-gor. D) Fro drink. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Eye-gor. 6. The feeling the reader takes away with him or her after reading ..... A) Onomatopoeia. B) Tone. C) Theme. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mood. 7. Giving human characteristics to an animal or object A) Onomatopoeia. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 8. The climax of the story is ..... A) A decisive moment that is a major turning point in the plot. B) The solution to a problem in a story. C) When an object is used to represent something else. D) The issue that the characters have to overcome. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A decisive moment that is a major turning point in the plot. 9. Which literary device is used to hint at events that will occur later in a story? A) Foreshadowing. B) Personification. C) Adage. D) Cliche. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foreshadowing. 10. Which of the following is compared to the mother's life? A) Carpet. B) Crystal stair. C) Floor. D) Tacks. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Crystal stair. 11. The attitude a writer takes toward the subject of a work, the characters in it, or the audience A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Feeling. D) Ambiance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 12. The dog soap was a slippery eel during the dog's bath. A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 13. This referes to the alterations of stong or weak (stressed and unstressed) syllables in the flow of a poem A) Rhyme. B) Alliteration. C) Rhythm. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhythm. 14. A symbol functions to A) Represent only itself. B) Make it easy to understand the basic storyline. C) Represent something beyond itself. D) Confuse the reader. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Represent something beyond itself. 15. Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. What is the rhyme scheme? A) FATHER. B) ABCB. C) Door. D) ABBA. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) FATHER. 16. The way in which words are arranged to form phrases or and sentences. A) Pragmatics. B) Grammar. C) Lexicon. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Syntax. 17. An extreme exaggeration or overstatement ("that test took forever!" A) Juxtaposition. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 18. Giving something at is non-human human-like qualities or attributes A) Personification. B) Imagery. C) Foreshadowing. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 19. What is the following an example of ..... "You ain't nothin' but a hound dog ..... " A) Onomatopoeia. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 20. The lesson, the moral; what is right or wrong. A) Monologue. B) Setting. C) Stage Direction. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Theme. ← 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