Quiz  /  Literary Devices Quiz

  • 1. 
    What figure of speech is represented in the sentence “He was sweating like a racehorse.”

  • Onomatopoeia
  • Metaphor
  • Litotes
  • Simile

  • 2. 
    A particular kind of understatement as exemplified in the sentence “I was not unhappy with the outcome” is called what?

  • Hyperbole
  • Metonymy
  • Euphemism
  • Litotes

  • 3. 
    When a word’s vocalization imitates a natural sound, as can be heard in the words murmur, buzz, and pop, what do we call that device?

  • Onomatopoeia
  • Synecdoche
  • Personification
  • Anaphora

  • 4. 
    What figure of speech is contained in this phrase from the Flanders & Swann song “Have Some Madeira, M’Dear”: “And he said as he hastened to put out the cat, the wine, his cigar, and the lamps”?

  • Anacoluthon
  • Pleonasm
  • Periphrasis
  • Zeugma (or syllepsis)

  • 5. 
    What is the device exemplified by Eliza Doolittle’s use of the word “abso-bloomin’-lutely”?

  • Cacophony
  • Tmesis
  • Antanaclasis
  • Foil

  • 6. 
    Which of these pairs is not a pair of opposites?

  • Connotation and denotation
  • Syndeton and asyndeton
  • Epistrophe and anaphora
  • Euphony and cacophony

  • 7. 
    What literary device does the Rodgers and Hammerstein song “Do I love you because you’re beautiful? Or are you beautiful because I love you?” illustrate?

  • Asyndeton
  • Circumlocution
  • Chiasmus
  • Irony
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