Literary Techniques Quiz 22 (20 MCQs)

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1. "Her heart sounded like a small drum."
2. An actor's speech, directed to the audience, that is not supposed to be heard by other actors on the stage ..... used to let the audience know that the character is about to do or what they are thinking.
3. What does the central idea or theme of a story tell the reader?
4. Giving human characteristics to a nonliving thing.
5. A form of figurative language in which something is highly exaggerated.
6. The sun hugged us with its warmth.
7. Onomatopoeia words are words that .....
8. The wind whispered the rumors of the forest.
9. Which literary technique does Theodore Roethke use in the bold parts of this line?Such waltzing was not easy.
10. How many times should you read the poem before writing?
11. Ms Adair smiled sadly at the pencil case
12. Which of these animated movies illustrates anthropomorphism?
13. The sky cried tears of joy on the people.
14. My house felt like 10, 000 suns!
15. "She wore black Mary Tyler Moore capri pants and the pale yellow sweater with the buttons made out of red plastic cherries." This is an example of the use of what literary technique?
16. Which literary technique does Robert Frost use in the bold parts of these lines?They fall from giving shade aboveTo make one texture of faded brownAnd fit the earth like a leather glove.
17. All of these words could be used to describe a dog. Which one has negative connotations?
18. "Her eyes, her eyes, make the stars look like they're not shining."
19. Which literary technique shrouds painful or harsh facts in polite, pleasant sentences?
20. Oh, so carefully, I carried my mile-high ice-cream cone across the freshley raked yard and climbed the ladder to my treehouse. They hyperbole in the above sentence is .....