This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Techniques > Literary Techniques – Quiz 13 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Techniques Quiz 13 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Two of the themes of The Village by the Sea are change and survival. What is a theme? A) The main idea, lesson, or message about life in a text. B) Something interesting that you learn from a text or story. C) One word that tells us the best part of the story. D) The moral of the story. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The main idea, lesson, or message about life in a text. 2. What literary technique involves the perspective from which a story is told? A) Symbol. B) Motif. C) POV. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) POV. 3. Which of these is an example of CONSONANCE? A) Pitter-patter. B) Cool as a cucumber. C) Boom. D) The cloud wept. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pitter-patter. 4. Which literary device compares similar things? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 5. Referring to something famous for emphasis (Romeo) A) Idioms. B) Allusions. C) Couplet. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusions. 6. A statement that appears self-contradictory but that reveals a truth A) Sarcasm. B) Paradox. C) Tone. D) Voice. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paradox. 7. The sun was shining brightly as the happy couple strolled down the road A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Pathetic fallacy. E) A combination. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pathetic fallacy. 8. Living dead A) Alliteration. B) Oxymoron. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron. 9. The baby was like an octopus, grabbing at all the cans on the grocery store shelves. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 10. What is the following an example of?:"The flowers were dancing by the lake" A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Euphemism. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 11. Which word means "refers to a writer's selection of words based on meaning (both denotative and connotative), specificity, tone, and audience. Also called diction, this is an essential ingredient of style" ? A) Imagery. B) Antecedent. C) Grammar. D) Word choice. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Word choice. 12. "Paint your face like a movie queen A naughty dream or a fantasy Anything goes, gotta be the scene Create your look, out a fashion book Ready, set, now go" A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 13. Some people imagine themselves as adults, driving around in a stunning Ferrari.In this day dream of future life, the Ferrari is ..... A) A metaphor. B) A simile. C) A symbol. D) Ironic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A symbol. 14. Euphemism-A short or amusing story about a real incident or person A) TRUE. B) FALSE . Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FALSE . 15. An interruption in the action to present a scene that took place at an earlier time. A) Flashback. B) Allusion. C) Foreshadowing. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Flashback. 16. Words mean what they mean; no extra meaning A) Literal. B) Figurative. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Literal. 17. A coming of age story A) Antagonist. B) Bildungsroman. C) Protagonist. D) Plot. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bildungsroman. 18. How the author/speaker says something. A) Claim. B) Tone. C) Mood. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 19. Each blade of grass was a tiny knife pointed firmly at our bare feet A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 20. The substitution of a word which relates to the object or person to be named, in place of the name itself A) Parody. B) Scansion. C) Synecdoche. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metonymy. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesIntroductions QuizzesLiterary Techniques Quiz 1Literary Techniques Quiz 2Literary Techniques Quiz 3Literary Techniques Quiz 4Literary Techniques Quiz 5Literary Techniques Quiz 6Literary Techniques Quiz 7Literary Techniques Quiz 8Literary Techniques Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books