This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Techniques > Literary Techniques – Quiz 22 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Techniques Quiz 22 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "Her heart sounded like a small drum." A) Adverbs. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 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. A) Allegory. B) Antagonist. C) Soliloquy. D) Aside. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Aside. 3. What does the central idea or theme of a story tell the reader? A) A specific detail from the story. B) The conflict of the story. C) What the story is about. D) The universal truth, moral, or idea the author wants to express. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The universal truth, moral, or idea the author wants to express. 4. Giving human characteristics to a nonliving thing. A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 5. A form of figurative language in which something is highly exaggerated. A) Oxymoron. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 6. The sun hugged us with its warmth. A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Appositive. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 7. Onomatopoeia words are words that ..... A) Exaggerate things. B) Give things human qualities. C) Sound like their meaning. D) Compare things. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sound like their meaning. 8. The wind whispered the rumors of the forest. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. E) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Personification. 9. Which literary technique does Theodore Roethke use in the bold parts of this line?Such waltzing was not easy. A) Alliteration. B) Imagery. C) Metaphor. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 10. How many times should you read the poem before writing? A) Once. B) Twice. C) Three times. D) It depends. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Three times. 11. Ms Adair smiled sadly at the pencil case A) Oxymoron. B) Personification. C) Imagery. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron. 12. Which of these animated movies illustrates anthropomorphism? A) Beauty and the Beast. B) Cinderella. C) Sonic the Hedgehog. D) Spiderman. E) Then. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Beauty and the Beast. 13. The sky cried tears of joy on the people. A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Appositive. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 14. My house felt like 10, 000 suns! A) Hyperbole. B) Not a hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 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? A) Characterization. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Characterization. 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. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Allusion. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 17. All of these words could be used to describe a dog. Which one has negative connotations? A) Dog. B) Puppy. C) Pooch. D) Mutt. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mutt. 18. "Her eyes, her eyes, make the stars look like they're not shining." A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Tone. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 19. Which literary technique shrouds painful or harsh facts in polite, pleasant sentences? A) Epigraph. B) Euphemism. C) Irony. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Euphemism. 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 ..... A) The freshly raked yard. B) Climbed the ladder. C) Mile-high ice-cream cone. D) Oh, so carefully. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mile-high ice-cream cone. ← 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