This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Techniques > Literary Techniques – Quiz 28 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Techniques Quiz 28 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When an author uses objects, colors, sounds, or places to represent something else. A) Symbolism. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Alliteration. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Symbolism. 2. 'The sun smiled down upon the green fields' is an example of which technique? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 3. Which of these famous quotations is not an example of a metaphor? A) "Aunt Petunia often said that Dudley looked like a baby angel Harry often said that Dudley looked like a pig in a wig." JK Rowling. B) "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players." William Shakespeare, As You Like It. C) "'Caus baby, you're a firework"Katy Perry. D) "The sun in the west was a drop of burning gold that slid near and nearer the sill of the world." William Golding, Lord of the Flies . Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "Aunt Petunia often said that Dudley looked like a baby angel Harry often said that Dudley looked like a pig in a wig." JK Rowling. 4. Author asks a question merely for effect with no answer expected A) Epiphany. B) Foreshadowing. C) Flashback. D) Rhetorical Question. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhetorical Question. 5. What is the definition of DIALECT? A) The language used by a specific group of people. B) Language that goes beyond the literal meaning of words. C) Descriptive words that appeal to the senses. D) The repetition of vowel sounds within non-rhyming words. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The language used by a specific group of people. 6. Two lines in a poem that rhyme A) Couplet. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Couplet. 7. A word, phrase, or expression that has meaning beyond the literal, actual meaning of the words A) Idiom. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 8. A struggle between opposing characters or opposing forces. A) Conflict. B) Problem. C) Struggle. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Conflict. 9. When it's pouring outside, and you turn to your neighbor and say, "Nice weather we're having!", this is an example of: A) Verbal irony. B) Dramatic irony. C) Situational irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Verbal irony. 10. It gives a thing, an idea or an animal human qualities. Example:The flowers are dancing beside the lake. A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Anecdote. D) Comparison. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 11. Words whose sound imitate a noise or action. Examples are buzz, hiss, hiccup. A) Imagery. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 12. "We could fight a war for peace (Ooh woo, I'm a rebel just for kicks, now) Give in to that easy living Goodbye to my hopes and dreams Stop flipping for my enemies" A) Irony. B) Personification. C) Anaphora. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irony. 13. Repeption of beginning consonant sounds A) Assonance. B) Rhyme. C) Alliteration. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 14. What is the term for a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Zoomorphism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 15. When something is known or understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters. (Think about scary movies and Megan Fox on The Ellen Show) A) Imagery. B) Situational Irony. C) Allusion. D) Dramatic Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dramatic Irony. 16. The struggle between opposing forces in literature:internal and external A) Conceit. B) Cutting. C) Contrast. D) Conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Conflict. 17. First Person uses 'I' statements, the effect of this is A) That the reader feels as if they are watching the action happen to someone distant from them. B) That the reader has a direct connection to the character/narrator. C) That the reader feels as though they are being addressed. D) That the reader is bored by the simplicity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) That the reader has a direct connection to the character/narrator. 18. "I remember when I was a kid, I always play arcade after class. "What literary technique is used in the statement? A) Parallelism. B) Flashback. C) Foreshadowing. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flashback. 19. Which literary device / technique? "I have died everyday, waiting for you." A) Speech Sounds. B) Oxymoron. C) Juxtaposition. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 20. What technique is being used when the author asks a question that the reader does not need to answer A) Simile. B) Rhetorical Question. C) Short Sentence. D) Listing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhetorical Question. ← 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