This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 64 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 64 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When the story goes back to previous events A) Irony. B) Time travel. C) Theme. D) Flashback. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Flashback. 2. Definition:Logical and/or easy to understand. A) Coherent. B) Agape. C) Anonymity. D) Beguile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Coherent. 3. What does the word "Informal language" mean? A) Casual. B) Proper. C) Decent. D) Wavy hair. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Casual. 4. What is the set up of the story that tells a little bit about the character, the setting, and conflict? A) Introduction. B) Inciting incident. C) Exposition. D) Plot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exposition. 5. Definition-This is a statement in which the speaker means something very different from what he or she is saying. Think of the knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail:with both his arms sliced off, he says, nonchalantly: "It's just a flesh wound." He is ironically (and comically) underplaying the severity of his injury. A) Situational irony. B) Dramatic irony. C) Verbal irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Verbal irony. 6. Identify the literary device: "The toast was like stone" A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 7. The use of a person, place, or object that stands for something beyond itself. A) Theme. B) Hyperbole. C) Symbolism. D) Verbal irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbolism. 8. What is mythology? A) Epic poem. B) Mystery. C) Poem about a hero. D) Stories, usually about gods, goddesses, mythologic creatures, explains the origin of things. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stories, usually about gods, goddesses, mythologic creatures, explains the origin of things. 9. Language or way of speech of a particular region of the country Ex. "It wasn't no good to pet." A) Dialogue. B) Characterization. C) Communication. D) Dialect. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dialect. 10. "Jimmy isn't at school today; he must have COVID." is an example of ..... A) To man. B) Slippery slope. C) Bandwagon. D) False assumption. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) False assumption. 11. When a character has a problem with the laws or beliefs of a group it is what type of conflict? A) Man vs. Man. B) Man vs. Society. C) Man vs. Nature. D) Man vs. Self. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Man vs. Society. 12. (n.) the rhetorical contrast of ideas by means of parallel arrangements of words A) Antithesis. B) Colloquialism. C) Diction. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antithesis. 13. In old age we laugh at our past, sigh for our past, cry out for our past. A) Epistrophe. B) Sympoce. C) Anaphora. D) Understatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Epistrophe. 14. Identify the literary device used in the following sentence:'Sally sells seashells by the seashore.' A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 15. The underlying moral or lesson of a story A) Theme. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Personification. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme. 16. Repetition of vowels. A) Cacophony. B) Assonance. C) Euphony. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 17. A device in literature when an object or thing represents an idea. A) Simile. B) Symbolism. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Symbolism. 18. Which of the following applies to the following definition:a character who is alone-or thinks he or she is alone-speaks his or her innermost thoughts and feelings. A) Internal conflict. B) Hate speech. C) Soliloquy. D) Liloandstitch. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Soliloquy. 19. Which literary device is shown here?54 arduus, obscurus, caligine densus opaca, A) Unrelated. B) Zeugma. C) Chiasmus. D) Apostrophe . Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Unrelated. 20. The implied moral message or life lesson an author intends to communicate about the subject is A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Theme. D) Characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 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