This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Techniques > Literary Techniques – Quiz 26 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Techniques Quiz 26 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The ball jumped out of the receiver's hands, and Andy caught it and scored. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 2. Which device is being used? "Her heart sounded like a small drum." A) Adverbs. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 3. What is characterisation? (Best Answer) A) Describes how characters speak. B) Gives specific information about a character. C) To become a type of character. D) Another word for stereotyping. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gives specific information about a character. 4. Epiphany A) A sudden realization. B) The process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character. C) Theme. D) A contrast between expectation and reality. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A sudden realization. 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 ..... A) To Juxtaposition. B) An epigraph. C) Irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An epigraph. 6. "I went to town to buy a phone" is an example of ..... A) Repetition. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Rhythm. D) Third Person. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhythm. 7. Which device is being used? "The wind howled outside, while the rain slapped the old man's face." A) Characterization. B) Setting. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 8. When we refer to something famous, such as a person, event, or book, to give context to a situation-What are we using? A) Alliteration. B) Hyperbole. C) Allusion. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 9. Giving animal characteristics to people, objects or places. A) Zoomorphism. B) Anamorphism. C) Personification. D) Explication. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Zoomorphism. 10. Theme is synonymous with with a poem's atmosphere. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 11. "Ain't no sunshine when she's gone." A) Motif. B) Symbolism. C) Hyperbole. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 12. A comparison of two unlike items using like or as A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 13. Calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place or thing, or to a personified idea. A) Assonance. B) Apostrophe. C) Analogy. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Apostrophe. 14. Characterization is achieved when an author describes characters' A) Feelings. B) Emotions. C) Traits. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Traits. 15. What is the term for a pause in a line of poetry? A) Juxtaposition. B) Oxymoron. C) Stanza. D) Form. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza. 16. "I am as hungry as a bear!"The kind of figurative language used here is ..... A) Simile and personification. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 17. An idiom is a regular phrase that are meant to be taken literally A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 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. A) Metaphor. B) Imagery. C) Simile. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 19. The process by which the author reveals the personality of a character A) Characterization. B) Antagonist. C) Protagonist. D) Dynamic Character. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Characterization. 20. Which of the following is an example of litotes? A) She was mad with the result. B) He is not like his brother. C) He is not exactly rich. D) It wasn't a terrible trip. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It wasn't a terrible trip. ← 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