This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Techniques > Literary Techniques – Quiz 27 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Techniques Quiz 27 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Aesop's Fables are allegory in the form of instructive lessons-stories that teach children how to behave and what to value. A) Alliteration. B) Allegory. C) Narration. D) Storytelling. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allegory. 2. Which part of the sentnece is an allusion:If they keep pushing me, I'm going to turn into the Hulk. A) If they keep. B) I'm going to turn. C) Keep pushing me. D) Turn into the Hulk. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Turn into the Hulk. 3. The perfect pencil case perched upon the desk A) Alliteration. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 4. What do you call one group of lines in a poem? A) Paragraph. B) Section. C) Category. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stanza. 5. Alan, a student in Room 52, has read the most words so far this year. A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Appositive. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Appositive. 6. Folding A) An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when you're alone or regardless of anyone listening. B) A recurring theme, subject or central idea. C) Repetition of a word or phrase as the beginning of successive lines. D) Repetition of the final words of a sentence or line at the beginning of the next. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repetition of the final words of a sentence or line at the beginning of the next. 7. The use of an image, word, phrase, or character (often repeated) to represent a key idea in a work of fiction. A) Symbolism. B) Alliteration. C) Imagery. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Symbolism. 8. The author includes conversation between himself and/or other people A) Quotation. B) Dialogue. C) Analogy. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dialogue. 9. Why might an author want to use a deus ex machina example in his or her piece of literature? A) To show how ingeniously the author can solve a problem. B) For comedic purposes. C) To represent the way the supernatural functions. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) For comedic purposes. 10. What figure of speech is presented in this excerpt:At low tide, when the bed was dry and the rocks glinted with broken bottles, the stone fence of the Spaniard's compound set off the house as if it were a castle. A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 11. "My love is like a burning flame" is an example of: A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 12. The insight about human nature revealed in work A) Theme. B) Symbol. C) Scansion. D) Stereotype. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme. 13. The author's attitude towards a subject, determined by word choice A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Analogy. D) Personal story. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 14. In this type of conflict, the main character engages in conflict with the enemy in order to win victory. A) Man vs. Society. B) Man vs. Nature. C) Man vs. Man. D) Man vs. Self. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Man vs. Man. 15. The use of combining opposites or contradictory phrases or terms in a phrase A) Parallelism. B) Parody. C) Oxymoron. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oxymoron. 16. "He's my sun. He makes me shine like diamonds." A) Irony. B) Anaphora. C) Metaphor. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 17. "Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow." This is an example of ..... A) Repetition. B) Thyme. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 18. An elaborate metaphor that compares two things that are startlingly different, often an extended metaphor. A) Conceit. B) Simile. C) Allegory. D) Aside. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Conceit. 19. What is deeply upset and agitated? A) Dramatic foil. B) Apprehensive. C) Empathy. D) Distraught. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Distraught. 20. "Give me your eyes and ears for the last two minutes of class." A) Personification. B) Litotes. C) Metonymy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metonymy. ← 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