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Literary Techniques Quiz 1 (60 MCQs)

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1. A short speech directed to the audience, or another character, that is not heard by the other characters on stage is called .....
2. The giving of human qualities and traits to an animal, object or idea. Ex., The dandelions danced in the breeze.
3. Hint or reference to something or someone well-known/famous
4. What is the technique called when an author develops the characters in a story?
5. Using diction and imagery to contrast the act of writing with working at a temporary agency is an example of which technique?
6. He's a brave lion is an example of
7. Dialogue, such as "I have a bad feeling about this"
8. A paragraph in a poem
9. I want to be ..... as sly as a fox, as strong as an ox, as fast as a hare, as brave as a bear ..... "
10. An author's use of speech patterns that fit a character's background
11. The use of verbal irony meant to say one thing, but mean another
12. What is the purpose of using similes in poetry?
13. Hyperbole is exaggeration for effect; often for irony
14. "My mother always told me never to get close to any danger, as that would be dancing with the devil. Little did I know that in my professional ballroom dancing career, that is exactly what I would do." What literary device is used here through the whole example?
15. "Listen to what she says with an open heart and a critical mind. Love her even if she doesn't do what you hope ..... "
16. The following example is a ironic:
17. Which word is different?
18. It is a literary technique in which an abstract idea is given a form of characters, actions or events.
19. What kind of figurative language uses "like" or "as" ?
20. Involves taking one type of sensory input (light, sound, smell, touch, taste, vision) and couples it with another separate sense in an impossible way. The resulting figure of speech would end up discussing how color tastes, for example
21. The colours of the pencil case sparkled like a rainbow in the class
22. The use of any element of language more than once is called .....
23. A special type of alliteration in which the repeated pattern of consonants is marked by changes in intervening sounds
24. "She's always been the calculator in the family."
25. The city is a sea of sadness.
26. How the reader feels while reading.
27. A word or phrase used in everyday use in conversation and informal writing. Inappropriate for formal situations and writing.
28. A character who is so ordinary or unoriginal that the character seems like an oversimplified representation of a type, gender, class, religious group, or occupation
29. All of these words can describe someone who does not like to spend money. Which word has positive connotations?
30. This choice impacts the text by making it more credible
31. Which of these best describes personification?
32. Description of the time, place, weather, and/or mood is called .....
33. Which literary technique is the repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, sentences, or verses ..... especially to create rhythm and emphasis?
34. A caricature is an example of .....
35. You ain't nothing but a hound dog. (Elvis Presley)
36. "Please let me in. I'm begging you. Please let me free!" This is an example of .....
37. "(The Chocolate Room) is the nerve center of the whole factory, the heart of the whole business!"
38. "He was as cool as a cucumber." is an example of a(n)
39. "Out of the very top of it there sprouted hundreds and hundreds of thin glass tubes, and the glass tubes all curled downwards and came together in a bunch and hung suspended over an enormous round tub as big as a bath."
40. Which of the following does NOT describe METAPHOR
41. He packed a copy of Indian in the Cupboard, his favorite book, into his suitcase.
42. The use of words who sounds suggest the actions of the word
43. "Dominant religious traditions in this town. Baptist, Mormon-they're everywhere ..... like jam on toast down here" (Kaufman, 35).
44. Which literary element(s) are seen in this stanza:Did you want to see me broken?Bowed head and lowered eyes?Shoulders falling down like teardrops, Weakened by my soulful cries?
45. The point from which a story is told. (first person, third person, etc.)
46. Which is the correct spelling of the word:
47. Refers to a person or an animal in a story, play or other literary work.
48. Go and mow the lawn.The engineer held the steering to steer the vehicle.
49. What is the term for a recurring subject, theme, idea, etc., especially in a literary, artistic, or musical work?
50. Public shame or disgrace-which vocabulary word does this definition most closely fit?
51. Several students had an epiphany when the teacher assigned after school detention for cheating. They had to change their ways.
52. Restatement of a word or phrase to make a point
53. The exact or dictionary meaning of a word
54. Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter. (Beatles)
55. The autumn leaves and twigs cracked and crunched underfoot.
56. A change in movement in a piece from one point, idea, concept, etc. to another; usually signaled by words such as but, then, however.
57. An implied comparison of two unlike objects:states that something is or was something else
58. Which technique is being used here:Just as I swung around, I came face-to-face with the class prefect, Amelia.
59. What literary technique is being used in the dialogue from TEWWG below? "Dat 'oman ain't so awfully pretty no how when you take the second look at her."
60. What are literary techniques?
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