This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Techniques > Literary Techniques – Quiz 38 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Techniques Quiz 38 (10 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Describes the central idea and writing techniques in a text. A) Essay. B) Memoir. C) Text-Analysis. D) Book Review. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Text-Analysis. 2. The way a writer writes and develops characters' personalities is called ..... A) Aside. B) Soliloquy. C) Personification. D) Characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Characterization. 3. What is the poet's purpose in using enjambment for the following lines? It is a beauteous Evening;The holy time is quiet as a nunBreathless with adoration; A) Emphasise how beautiful the evening is. B) Evoke the sensation of breathlessness. C) Emphasise how breathless the nun is. D) Evoke an image of the evening's beauty in the reader. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Evoke the sensation of breathlessness. 4. When a year is the best AND the worst in your life, it can be labeled A) Allusion. B) Verbal irony. C) Anaphora. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Verbal irony. 5. "You are my love. You are my heart and we will never, ever, ever be apart." A) Oxymoron. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 6. What is the meaning of the allusion:I felt like Cupid had struck me with his arrown when I saw the adorable puppy! A) I don't like dogs. B) I talked to the puppy. C) I was in love with the puppy!. D) The puppy was okay. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) I was in love with the puppy!. 7. I have heard how the hedgehog hog the hedge A) Simile. B) Tongue twister. C) Alliteration. D) Allegory. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 8. A figure of speech in which one thing is described as something else. A) Adjective. B) Hyperbole. C) Imagery. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 9. The moon will not come out to play. (Bob Marley) A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 10. Similes, metaphors and personification are all ways of using words to create pictures in reader's heads. Which word describes all these techniques together? A) Quotation. B) Diction. C) Connotation. D) Imagery . Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery . ← PreviousRelated 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