This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 84 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 84 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The character's posture, gesture, and facial expression is a techniques under ..... A) Movement. B) Voice. C) Body. D) Space. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Movement. 2. It is a common rhetorical device used to add emphasis and stress in writing and speech. A) Oxymoron. B) Repetition. C) Onobatopoie. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 3. A comparison of two unlike things using like, as, than, or resembles A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 4. Characters ..... throughout a story or drama. They learn lessons as a result of the events and/or problems in the story. A) Stay the same. B) Never change. C) Grow and change. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Grow and change. 5. Mickey Mouse, Spongebob Squarepants, Brian the Dog A) Dysphemism. B) Anthropomorphism. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anthropomorphism. 6. I have million things to do. A) Hyperbole. B) Colloquialism. C) Foreshadowing. D) Anachronism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 7. He has bigger fish to fry. A) Hyperbole. B) Idiom. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Idiom. 8. Piece of cake A) This means not to take what someone says too seriously. B) A job, task or other activity that is easy or simple. C) To have no idea, do not know the answer to a question. D) Come to the point-leave out details. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A job, task or other activity that is easy or simple. 9. BONUS QUESTION:The opposite of hyperbole is A) Oxymoron. B) Pun. C) Idiom. D) Understatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Understatement. 10. Which of the following refers to anything that represents both itself and something more? A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Symbol. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbol. 11. Figure of speech that is exaggerated A) Repetition. B) Hyperbole. C) Idiom. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 12. Blessing in disguise A) Something good that isn't recognized at first. B) A good invention or innovation. A good idea or plan. C) This idiom is used when something is very expensive. D) Be happy when a person leaves. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Something good that isn't recognized at first. 13. They seemed to think the opportunity lost, if they failed to point the conversation to me, every now and then, and stick the point into me." A) Hyperbole. B) Repetition. C) Alliteration. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pun. 14. A figure of speech that combines apparently contradictory terms A) Irony. B) Pun. C) Soliloquy. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oxymoron. 15. "They all joined together, and he held his lips intently." A) To fall silent. B) While falling silent. C) Fell silent. D) Will fall silent. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fell silent. 16. Choose the vocab word that best fits the sentence:My mother's ..... tone let me know that trouble was waiting or me. A) Purged. B) Deference. C) Serene. D) Ominous. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ominous. 17. "That's how I feel now ..... totally stunned as the name bounces around the inside of my skull." A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 18. What is an adage? A) What is an adage?. B) A saying that doesn't mean what it says. C) An old familiar saying that expresses wisdom. D) A proverbs best friend. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An old familiar saying that expresses wisdom. 19. The comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, typically using the words like or as, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Allusion. D) Allegory. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 20. T/F Figures of speech use words or groups of words in a symbolic rather than literal way? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. ← 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