This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Devices – Quiz 95 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 95 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the term for the use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities, by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal sense? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbolism. 2. Homelessness amongst children has risen 25% in this country in the past decade A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) Anecdote. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 3. The introduction of the characters and setting of a story A) Setting. B) Climax. C) Conflict. D) Exposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Exposition. 4. "He was up before day-break, and came upon the Park with the morning, which was clad in the least engaging of the three hundred and sixty-five dresses in the wardrobe of the year." (from Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens)What does the personification in the above quote suggest about the weather in the park? A) It was an ideal day for a walk in the park. B) The weather in the park was unusual compared to what it usually was. C) It was a dreary day and probably not the best for a walk. D) There was a thunderstorm in the park that morning. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It was a dreary day and probably not the best for a walk. 5. Choose an example of a Metaphor. A) The wind howled in the night. B) That boy in my class is as funny as a clown. C) His students are puppets on a string. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) His students are puppets on a string. 6. Which literary device is being used in the following sentence:'Her eyes were as blue as the ocean.'? A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 7. What is the following an example of?He's an awful man A) Evaluative Language. B) Modality. C) Neologism. D) Parody. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Evaluative Language. 8. What literary element is present in the line below:The picture of the cat was as foggy as Ireland. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Verbal Irony. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 9. What is this an example of? She was as tall as a palm tree. A) Metaphor. B) Refrain. C) Allusion. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 10. Time and place the story takes placeEx:Elmore, Arkansas, 1900s A) Setting. B) Plot. C) Imagery. D) Exposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Setting. 11. Omar was as white as a sheet when he stepped off the roller coaster. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. E) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 12. Which of the following is an example of something that is "compact" ? A) A large, spacious room. B) A cluttered and disorganized space. C) A small and cramped room. D) A room with many decorations. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A small and cramped room. 13. "Stormy and wet, stormy and wet; and mud, mud, mud, deep in all the streets. Day after day, a vast heavy veil had been driving over London from the East, and it drove still, as if in the East there were an Eternity of cloud and wind. So furious had been the gusts, that high buildings in town had had the lead stripped off their roofs; and in the country, trees had been torn up, and sails of windmills carried away; and gloomy accounts had come in from the coast, of shipwreck and death. Violent blasts of rain had accompanied these rages of wind, and the day just closed as I sat down to read had been the worst of all." The above lines are Pip's observation on the weather before Magwitch's arrival. A) Flashback. B) Flashforward. C) Foreshadowing. D) Allegory. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Foreshadowing. 14. Which list shows the plot elements in the correct order? A) Exposition, falling action, climax, rising action, resolution. B) Exposition, falling action, rising action, climax, resolution. C) Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution. D) Rising action, falling action, exposition, climax, resolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution. 15. What word describes a person, place or thing? A) Adjective. B) Noun. C) They tend. D) Adverb. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Adjective. 16. This type of rhyme occurs when words sound similar, but aren't true rhymes. A) End rhyme. B) Internal rhyme. C) Slant rhyme. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Slant rhyme. 17. Pathos A) Ways to persuade people; the art of persuasion. B) Persuasion through trustworthiness or credibility whether by showing where the persuader got their information from or by using an expert. (ex:a dentist on TV telling you to use this toothpaste for your teeth.). C) Persuasion through emotions. (Ex:those sad dog and cat shelter commercials.). D) Persuasion through logical thinking and reasoning. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Persuasion through emotions. (Ex:those sad dog and cat shelter commercials.). 18. The type of conflict when a character is up against a natural disaster, a disease outbreak, or stranded in an isolated location. A) Man vs. man. B) Man vs. nature. C) Man vs. society. D) Man vs. self. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Man vs. nature. 19. An author is sending his/her message to the audience through this: A) Theme. B) Voice. C) Tone. D) All of the above/choices. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above/choices. 20. What literary device involves giving human characteristics to inanimate objects? A) Dramatic monologue. B) Epic theme. C) Personification. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. ← 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