This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Techniques > Literary Techniques – Quiz 31 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Techniques Quiz 31 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of these statements makes use of euphemism? A) He is a liar and a master at manipulation. B) She kicked the bucket only a fortnight ago. C) Ameerah and Faith are two peas in a pod. D) I do not like mincing words when speaking to others. . Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She kicked the bucket only a fortnight ago. 2. Denouement/Resolution A) A common thread or repeated idea that is incorporated throughout the literary work. B) The portion of the story that introduces important background information to the reader about the setting, events occuring before the main plot, and characters' back stories. C) The turning point in the action, also known as the crisis, and the highest point of interest or excitement. D) The final part of the novel or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and the matters are resolved. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The final part of the novel or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and the matters are resolved. 3. Hints of events to occur later in the story A) Figurative language. B) Foreshadowing. C) Pun. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foreshadowing. 4. The author uses data in order to support his/her ideas A) Dialogue. B) Facts and stats. C) Analogy. D) Quotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Facts and stats. 5. What is the purpose of using symbolism in poetry? A) To confuse the reader. B) To create a visual image. C) To convey a particular effect. D) To hide the meaning of the poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To convey a particular effect. 6. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses. A) Imagery. B) Repetition. C) Setting. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 7. Which literary technique involves the use of the words in such a way in which the intended meaning is completely opposite to their literal meaning? A) Irony. B) Imagery. C) Chiasma. D) Apostrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irony. 8. Her eyes were diamonds A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Pathetic fallacy. E) A combination. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 9. Which technique is being used here: "What do you think you're doing, Alex?" she asked. A) Show not tell. B) Introductory phrase. C) Dialogue. D) 5 senses. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dialogue. 10. A discrepancy between appearances and reality A) Litotes. B) Irony. C) Hyperbole. D) Conceit. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irony. 11. A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is replaced by another, often indicating a likeness or similarity between them. A) Simile. B) Irony. C) Metaphor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 12. Comparing freshman year to purgatory is an example of: A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Allusion. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 13. Identify the mood: "Did a shadow fall across the moon or did the moon simply go out, extinguished as abruptly and completely as a candle? There was still the sound of leaves, a terrified, terrifying rushing. All light was gone. Darkness was complete. Suddenly the wind was gone, and all sound. Meg felt that Calvin was being torn from her. When she reached for him her fingers touched nothing." A) Sad. B) Frightening. C) Magical. D) Joyous. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Frightening. 14. Comparison of two unlike things using a linking verb A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 15. Books, Reading and writing are mentioned frequently throughout the book Kindred. Both central characters, Dana and Kevin, are writers. Dana teaches reading and writing, tries to read books when stuck in the past, and also writes for herself. Writing and reading are liberating acts:they are subtle and not-so-subtle ways to gain and assert power within a society that marginalizes people based on race and/or gender. This type of repetition is called A) Motif. B) Symbolism. C) Anaphora. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Motif. 16. What is the definition of rhyme scheme? A) The pattern of rhyming lines in a poem. B) The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. C) The arrangement of words to create a beat. D) The comparison between two things using 'like' or 'as'. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The pattern of rhyming lines in a poem. 17. "You raw thing! You uncultured element! Ignorant babbon and nincompoop! How can you have the temerity, the audacity and in fact, the effrontery to talk back at me?"This piece of dialogue was extracted from Chinelo Ifezulike's The Costly Mistake. What literary device is used here? A) Colloquialism. B) Circumlocution. C) Chiasma. D) Calligraphy . Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Circumlocution. 18. The use of words whose sounds echo their sense/ meaning A) Personification. B) Synesthesia. C) Synecdoche. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 19. The repetition of sounds at the ends of words is called ..... A) End rhyme. B) Alliteration. C) Foreshadowing. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) End rhyme. 20. A joke that is a play on words that can rely on a word's multiple meanings is called a ..... A) Hyperbole. B) Soliloquy. C) Pun. D) Parody. 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