This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 94 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 94 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. I was tickled pink when I heard the news. A) Alliteration. B) Idiom. C) Symbolism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Idiom. 2. She had a photographic memory but never developed it. A) Symbolism. B) Pun. C) Hyperbole. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pun. 3. Which sentence from the selection suggests that Suzy likes to play basketball? A) Suzy's mom makes Suzy practice basketball every day. B) Suzy looks forward to her basketball games. C) Suzy scored 5 points in her last basketball game. D) Suzy and her mom get ice cream after her basketball games. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Suzy looks forward to her basketball games. 4. The way an author feels about what they are writing about. A) Author's purpose. B) Central Idea. C) Author's perspective. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Author's perspective. 5. The attitude or emotion an author shows in their writing A) Tone. B) Point of view. C) Inference. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 6. The cloud looks lonely that floats on higher valleys and hills. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 7. The bees played hide and seek with the flowers as they buzzed from one to another.Poetic device is A) Personification. B) Transferred epithet. C) Simile. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 8. This is the feeling created in a reader by a piece of writing. A) Connotation. B) Tone. C) Mood. D) Denotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mood. 9. A rhetorical appeal that appeals to emotions; evoking an emotional response. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 10. What literary device is used in the phrase 'the world is my oyster'? A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 11. In the passage from the Bible, "Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God." (1 Corinthians 10:31), which literary device is used? A) Anaphora. B) Antithesis. C) Paradox. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Parallelism. 12. The Civil Rights Marches led by Dr. Martin Luther King are historical examples of what kind of conflict? A) Man vs man. B) Man vs self. C) Man vs technology. D) Man vs society. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Man vs society. 13. Which story involves time travel? A) "The Scarlet Ibis". B) "A Sound of Thunder". C) "The Most Dangerous Game". D) "Rights to the Streets of Memphis". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "A Sound of Thunder". 14. The sentence "Her smile lit up the room like a sun" is an example of ..... A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 15. What is flashback? A) An interruption in the present, so the reader's can know about the past. B) Omen about what is going to happen in the future. C) When character is given the characteristic of someone or something. D) When character has to infer the characteristic of someone or something with the text evidence provided. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An interruption in the present, so the reader's can know about the past. 16. What literary device is used in this line: "The one and only son of Tony, Montana" A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Consonance. 17. When the reader or audience knows something that a character or characters do not know A) Verbal irony. B) Dramatic irony. C) Situational irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dramatic irony. 18. Why did Liesel and her mother get off the train before they arrived in Mulching? A) The conductor told them to. B) They were hungry. C) Her brother died. D) She wanted to find a book. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Her brother died. 19. Appealing to credibility A) Pathos. B) Ethos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ethos. 20. The author tells you something about the character directly A) Foreshadowing. B) Indirect Characterization. C) Direct Characterization. D) Foil. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 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