This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Techniques > Literary Techniques – Quiz 34 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Techniques Quiz 34 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. One type of imagery the simile. A simile is a comparison between two things to create a picture in reader's heads. You must use one of which two words to create a simile? A) So and as. B) Like and as. C) Like and if. D) So and if. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Like and as. 2. The art of persuasion/ manipulation is also known as A) Allusion. B) Rhetoric. C) Anaphora. D) Unrelated. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhetoric. 3. The dark blanket of night fell upon us is an example of A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 4. What is anxious or fearful about the future; uneasy? A) Apprehensive. B) Empathy. C) Simile. D) Suspense. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Apprehensive. 5. What is the difference between metaphor and simile? A) A simile compares two things using like or as. B) A metaphor compares two things using like or as. C) They show the differences between two things. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A simile compares two things using like or as. 6. Which literary technique does Robert Frost use in these lines?I'm going out to fetch the little calfThat's standing by the mother. It's so young, It totters when she licks it with her tongue. A) Imagery. B) Metaphor. C) Allusion. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 7. What literary technique involves an exaggerated statement or claim not meant to be taken literally? A) Allusion. B) Conceit. C) Homage. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 8. The audience addresses the other perspectives surrounding the issue A) Counterargument. B) Analogy. C) Facts and stats. D) Personal story. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Counterargument. 9. What is the term for the attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience? A) Symbol. B) Motif. C) POV. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) POV. 10. Simile compares two thing without using like or as. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 11. "I know nobody to blame, Kurt Cobain. I did this to myself." A) Figurative Language. B) Repetition. C) Allusion. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 12. "Your bag weighs a ton!"This is an example of A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 13. The giant tree covered with red, and orange, and yellow leaves. (Montverdi) A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 14. A method authors can use to control a reader's pace and focus A) Space within a line. B) Rhyme. C) Stanza organization. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Space within a line. 15. A theme is generally ..... A) A word. B) A sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A sentence. 16. Two or more characters are having a conversation A) Dialect. B) Epiphany. C) Irony. D) Dialogue. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dialogue. 17. Which literary technique does Gary Soto use in the bold parts of these lines?Outside, A few cars hissing past, Fog hanging like oldCoats between the trees. A) Alliteration. B) Imagery. C) Simile. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 18. In Toy Story 2, Jessie recounts how her former owner grew out of playing with her. A) Plot Twist. B) Anticlimactic. C) Foreshadowing. D) Flashback. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Flashback. 19. An imagined state or society in which there is great suffering or injustice, typically one that is totalitarian or post-apocalyptic-What is this a definition of? A) Utopia. B) Dystopia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dystopia. 20. Two words that are used together that are opposite in meaning (jumbo shrimp) A) Onomatopoeia. B) Jargon. C) Assonance. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oxymoron. ← 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