This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Techniques > Literary Techniques – Quiz 30 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Techniques Quiz 30 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "I got that summertime, summertime sadness ..... Got my hair big beauty-queen style ..... " A) Allusion. B) Imagery. C) Hypophora. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 2. The author compares a situation or an idea to something different in order to make a point A) Analogy. B) Personal story. C) Anecdote. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Analogy. 3. Sibilance is the alliteration of which letter? A) C. B) T. C) S. D) A. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) S. 4. People have different names for different things? Some people may call a gas station a gas station, stop a minute, or corner store. This is an exampe of ..... ? A) Allusion. B) Alliteration. C) Dialect. D) Dialogue. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dialect. 5. "Everyone got food poisoning at my birthday party-not the greatest way to celebrate." A) Hyperbole. B) Litotes. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Litotes. 6. The cheeky water sprayed crazily into the crowd A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Pathetic fallacy. E) A combination. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 7. A reference to a person, place, event, or literary work is called ..... A) Verbal Irony. B) Characterization. C) Monologue. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 8. Nicole's smile is a mile wide. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 9. Attempting to group words together harmoniously so that the consonants permit an easy and pleasing flow of sound. A) Consonance. B) Cacophony. C) Euphony. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Euphony. 10. Moises knows everything about video games A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. E) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 11. Based on influence by personal feelings, tastes, opinions, experiences. A) Stereotype. B) Stock character. C) Subjective. D) Objective. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Subjective. 12. After your mom throws you an amazing party, you say, "My mother is like WONDER WOMAN! She's awesome!"You are using ..... A) A metaphor. B) Personification. C) A symbol. D) A simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A simile. 13. Jason was a hungry goblin wolfing down a handful of miniature candy bars. A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 14. My time piece is a piece of wax fallin' on a termite. (Chili Peppers) A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 15. The rage bubbled away inside of him A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Pathetic fallacy. E) A combination. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 16. The continuation of a sentence or clause over a line-break A) Foil. B) Cesura. C) Enjambment. D) Euphony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Enjambment. 17. "Remember, Cinderella, " warned her fairy godmother, "you must leave the ball at midnight. If you stay later, everything will turn back as it was. Your coach will become a pumpkin again. Your gown will become reags. Promise me you will remember." "Of course, I'll remember, " said Cinderella, but as her coach carried her toward the ball, the warning was replaced in her mind with images of dancing and music. A) Foreshadow. B) Flashback. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foreshadow. 18. "He works 24/7." A) Adverbs. B) Hyperbole. C) Imahery. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 19. Setting up rhythm as a memory device by using repetition of the first letter of a word repeated two or times in a line is called A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Alliteration. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 20. The denotative meaning of a rose is: A) A flower. B) Love or romance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A flower. ← 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