This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 83 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 83 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What does the title "The Jungle" represent? A) The capitalist government system in america. B) The time of mass immigration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The capitalist government system in america. 2. In the phrase 'He has a heart of stone', which literary device is being used? A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 3. The introduction of a story is known as the ..... (the ela term) A) Beginning. B) Exposition. C) Resolution. D) Climax. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exposition. 4. A fire station burning down A) Juxtaposition. B) Symbolism. C) Situational Irony. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Situational Irony. 5. What literary device is illustrated in the following statement:"We sell the best roti and doubles in the world!" A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Oxymoron. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 6. I smelled the warm, sweet, all-pervasive smell of silage, as well as the sour dirty laundry spilling over the basket in the hall. I could pick out the acrid smell of Claire's drenched diaper, her sweaty feet, and her hair crusted with sand. A) Imagery. B) Allusion. C) Personification. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 7. I'm a chicken when it comes to getting an injection. A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Juxtaposition. D) Lie. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 8. Multiple conjunctions A) Onomatopoeia. B) Chiasmus. C) Synchesis. D) Polysyndeton. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Polysyndeton. 9. Grandpa is older than dirt. A) Hyperbole. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 10. A major theme is ..... A) The main idea of a story. B) The most significant idea in a literary work. C) An idea that a writer repeats in a literary work. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 11. A type of implied comparison that compares two things by stating one is the other A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 12. Onomatopoeia is seen in which sentence? A) "I'm leaving right away.". B) "The crowd continued to cheer.". C) "Whoosh! Mr. Ocax dove in at Poppy.". D) "Hastily she turned toward the log opening.". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "Whoosh! Mr. Ocax dove in at Poppy.". 13. Read the following sentence from "Thank You, Mr. Falker" ."But when Trisha tried, the numbers were like a stack of blocks, wobbly and ready to fall."This sentence includes a(n) ..... A) Hyperbole. B) Idiom. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 14. Which literary device gives human attributes or feelings to inanimate objects? A) Symbolism. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 15. Which of the following refers to an implied comparison between two unlike things WITHOUT using LIKE or AS A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 16. What POV is this sentence written in? I went to the Great Hall for dinner. A) First person. B) Third person limited. C) Third omniscient. D) Second person. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) First person. 17. Propaganda A) A term used in drama and theater, an aside happens when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by most of the other actors on the stage. Asides are useful for giving the audience special information about the other characters onstage or the action of the plot. B) The unifying message portrayed in a text. This is a complete idea (sentence) that tells a truth about humanity. C) Usually a repeated grouping of three or more lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme. D) Is a concerted set of messages aimed at influencing the opinions or behaviors of large numbers of people. As opposed to impartially providing information, propaganda in its most basic sense presents information in order to influence its audience. Propaganda often presents facts selectively (thus lying by omission) to encourage a particular synthesis, or gives loaded messages in order to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented. The desired result is a change of the cognitive narrative of the subject in the target audience to further a political agenda. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Is a concerted set of messages aimed at influencing the opinions or behaviors of large numbers of people. As opposed to impartially providing information, propaganda in its most basic sense presents information in order to influence its audience. Propaganda often presents facts selectively (thus lying by omission) to encourage a particular synthesis, or gives loaded messages in order to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented. The desired result is a change of the cognitive narrative of the subject in the target audience to further a political agenda. 18. A recurring image, idea, or symbol that develops a theme is ..... A) Mood. B) Symbolism. C) Motif. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Motif. 19. "Harry had a thin face, knobbly knees, black hair, and bright green eyes. He wore round glasses held together with a lot of Scotch tape because of all the times Dudley had punched him on the nose" is an example of ..... A) Indirect Characterization. B) Verbal Irony. C) Direct Characterization. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Direct Characterization. 20. A smoke screen to cover the truth; a clue that is misleading or distracting. A) Spin. B) Blue heron. C) Bias. D) Red herring. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Red herring. ← 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