Literary Techniques Quiz 26 (20 MCQs)

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1. The ball jumped out of the receiver's hands, and Andy caught it and scored.
2. Which device is being used? "Her heart sounded like a small drum."
3. What is characterisation? (Best Answer)
4. Epiphany
5. At the beginning of The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway quotes Gertrude Stein: "You are all a lost generation." This quote is an example of .....
6. "I went to town to buy a phone" is an example of .....
7. Which device is being used? "The wind howled outside, while the rain slapped the old man's face."
8. When we refer to something famous, such as a person, event, or book, to give context to a situation-What are we using?
9. Giving animal characteristics to people, objects or places.
10. Theme is synonymous with with a poem's atmosphere.
11. "Ain't no sunshine when she's gone."
12. A comparison of two unlike items using like or as
13. Calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place or thing, or to a personified idea.
14. Characterization is achieved when an author describes characters'
15. What is the term for a pause in a line of poetry?
16. "I am as hungry as a bear!"The kind of figurative language used here is .....
17. An idiom is a regular phrase that are meant to be taken literally
18. Which literary technique does Robert Frost use in the bold parts of these lines?So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day.Nothing gold can stay.
19. The process by which the author reveals the personality of a character
20. Which of the following is an example of litotes?