This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Techniques > Literary Techniques – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Techniques Quiz 2 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The colours of the pencil case sparkled like a rainbow in the class A) Simile. B) Oxymoron. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 2. The use of any element of language more than once is called ..... A) End Rhyme. B) Allusion. C) Soliloquy. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repetition. 3. A special type of alliteration in which the repeated pattern of consonants is marked by changes in intervening sounds A) Consonance. B) Assonances. C) Cacophony. D) Conceit. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consonance. 4. "She's always been the calculator in the family." A) Adverbs. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 5. The city is a sea of sadness. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 6. How the reader feels while reading. A) Claim. B) Tone. C) Mood. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mood. 7. A word or phrase used in everyday use in conversation and informal writing. Inappropriate for formal situations and writing. A) Vernacular. B) Conversational tone. C) Semantics. D) Colloquialism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Colloquialism. 8. 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 A) Antagonist. B) Flat character. C) Round character. D) Stereotype. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stereotype. 9. All of these words can describe someone who does not like to spend money. Which word has positive connotations? A) Economical. B) Stingy. C) Selfish. D) Miserly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Economical. 10. This choice impacts the text by making it more credible A) Personal story. B) Facts and stats. C) Analogy. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Facts and stats. 11. Which of these best describes personification? A) A comparison using 'like' or 'as'. B) A word which sounds like what it means. C) A comparison which describes something by saying it is something else. D) A description of an object as if it were a person. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A description of an object as if it were a person. 12. Description of the time, place, weather, and/or mood is called ..... A) Adjective. B) Personification. C) Setting. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Setting. 13. 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? A) Anaphora. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anaphora. 14. A caricature is an example of ..... A) Mockery. B) Parody. C) Sarcasm. D) Satire. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Satire. 15. You ain't nothing but a hound dog. (Elvis Presley) A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 16. Point-of-View A) LITERARY TECHNIQUE. B) LITERARY ELEMENT. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) LITERARY ELEMENT. 17. "Please let me in. I'm begging you. Please let me free!" This is an example of ..... A) Hyperbole. B) Imagery. C) Simile. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Parallelism. 18. "(The Chocolate Room) is the nerve center of the whole factory, the heart of the whole business!" A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Idiom. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 19. Which of the following examples is personification? A) Boom. B) Lightning danced across the sky. C) The sky was full of diamonds. D) She was as beautiful as the mountains. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lightning danced across the sky. 20. "He was as cool as a cucumber." is an example of a(n) A) Simile. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesIntroductions QuizzesLiterary Techniques Quiz 1Literary Techniques Quiz 3Literary Techniques Quiz 4Literary Techniques Quiz 5Literary Techniques Quiz 6Literary Techniques Quiz 7Literary Techniques Quiz 8Literary Techniques Quiz 9Literary Techniques Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books