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Literary Techniques Quiz 2 (60 MCQs)

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1. What should the first and last sentence be?
2. Which literary technique gives human characteristics to non-human things?
3. All knowing as in its narration, the narrator knows everything about all characters
4. Who was Maya Angelou?
5. Writers use sensory details to help readers IMAGINE how things LOOK, FEEL, SMELL, SOUND, and TASTE.
6. How would allusion be defined?
7. What is the name of your main English teacher?
8. Giving something that isn't alive human characteristics
9. "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."
10. Choose the correct onomatopoeia for a bird.
11. "And for me-I love it! I mean, I love to go to the grocery store 'cause I get to visit with four or five or six people every time I go" (Kaufman, 23).
12. Good authors do research when writing their novels. Which is NOT something the author probably researched for The Compound?
13. The author references his/her personal experiences in the text
14. Which of the following is a type of figurative language that compares two things?
15. Reading a poem in such a way to determine its meter (stresses and unstresses) in a line
16. Which of these is not a type of sentence?
17. Words and/or phrases that appeal to the reader's senses of sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell. They bring a piece of text alive so that you can use your imagination to see, hear, feel, taste, or smell what is being described.
18. A feeling of curiosity or uncertainty abou the outcome of events in a literary work.
19. The atmosphere, or feeling, in a text. How it makes you feel when you read it.
20. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words or stressed syllables is .....
21. Language that doesn't mean exactly what it says
22. The feeling the reader experiences during/after reading.
23. What is the following an example of?: "This bag weighs a ton!"
24. Literary elements and Literary techniques fall under the umbrella family of
25. What figure of speech is presented in this excerpt:Why did the bread come nut-brown and the size of my little fist? And why did it have a pair of lips convulsed into a painful frown?
26. Which technique is being used here:I can finally get the new shoes and the latest computer games! I thought gleefully.
27. When the reader has information that one or more characters doesn't have
28. Can literary elements be used in place of literary techniques?
29. Symbolism can be defined as .....
30. A comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is said to be the other thing.
31. What are two structural techniques that add emphasis?
32. ALL OF THE FOLLOWING ARE INCLUDED, EXCEPT:Now that she's back in the atmosphere With drops of Jupiter in her hair, hey, hey She acts like summer and walks like rain Reminds me that there's time to change, hey, hey Since the return of her stay on the moon She listens like spring and she talks like June, hey, hey Hey, hey
33. Words which are inaccurate if interpreted literally, but are used to describe.
34. "Dark and depressing mortuary" to "muffled smell, as of graves" to "sepulchral" to "this funeral game" all support the:
35. Harsh, clashing, or dissonant sounds
36. The pen danced across the page is an example of
37. The character antagonist of this story is:
38. Reinforcing a theme through the deliberate exaggeration or emphasis of something uses what specific technique?
39. Which of these pairs is not a pair of opposites?
40. Which of the following was NOT a leading Black poet in America's history?
41. "Big baby, " "alone together, " and "original copy" are examples of?
42. Character says one thing but means the opposite
43. Rhyme in which there is repetition of vowel sounds
44. An Anecdote is.....
45. What literary technique is being used here? "All about him black metal pots were boiling and bubbling on huge stoves, and kettles were hissing and pans were sizzling, and strange iron machines were clanking and sputtering, and there were pipes running all over the ceiling and walls, and the whole place was filled with smoke and steam and delicious rich smells."
46. " The road was a ribbon of moonlight" is an example of which these literary technique?
47. The use of any object, person, place, or action that both has a meaning in itself and that stands for something larger than itself
48. What language feature best fits this definition: "the ends of words have the same sounds"
49. Metaphor is another type of imagery. Which of the following statements is not true about metaphors.
50. Speech, thoughts, effects on others, actions, and/or looks of a character.
51. Which of these is a simile?
52. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words is called .....
53. "Like the Nazis, ante bellum whites had known quite a bit more than I ever wanted to learn" (117). This sentence contains
54. Epiphora is .....
55. "The engine roared" is an example of:
56. This choice impacts the audience by giving them something else to connect an idea with or a new way to see a concept
57. "All about him black metal pots were boiling and bubbling on huge stoves, and kettles were hissing and pans were sizzling, and strange iron machines were clanking and sputtering, and there were pipes running all over the ceiling and walls, and the whole place was filled with smoke and steam and delicious rich smells."
58. Combines clashing terms (ex-jumbo shrimp, pretty ugly)
59. Litotes is .....
60. An understatement in which the affirmative is expressed by the negation of the opposite.
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