This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Techniques > Literary Techniques – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Techniques Quiz 5 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of these is not a type of sentence? A) Simple. B) Connected. C) Compound. D) Complex. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Connected. 2. Words and/or phrases that appeal to the reader's senses of sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell. They bring a piece of text alive so that you can use your imagination to see, hear, feel, taste, or smell what is being described. A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Imagery. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 3. A feeling of curiosity or uncertainty abou the outcome of events in a literary work. A) Imagery. B) Conflict. C) Dialect. D) Suspense. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Suspense. 4. The atmosphere, or feeling, in a text. How it makes you feel when you read it. A) Foreshadowing. B) Theme. C) Tone. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mood. 5. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words or stressed syllables is ..... A) Iambic pentameter. B) Allusion. C) Alliteration. D) Dramatic irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 6. Language that doesn't mean exactly what it says A) Literal. B) Figurative. C) Slang. D) English. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Figurative. 7. The feeling the reader experiences during/after reading. A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Opinion. D) Argument. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mood. 8. What is the following an example of?: "This bag weighs a ton!" A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Euphemism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 9. Literary elements and Literary techniques fall under the umbrella family of A) Tips for excellent writing. B) Literary concepts. C) Literary approaches. D) Literary devices. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Literary devices. 10. What figure of speech is presented in this excerpt:Why did the bread come nut-brown and the size of my little fist? And why did it have a pair of lips convulsed into a painful frown? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 11. Which technique is being used here:I can finally get the new shoes and the latest computer games! I thought gleefully. A) Show not tell. B) Character thoughts. C) Dialogue. D) 5 senses. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Character thoughts. 12. When the reader has information that one or more characters doesn't have A) Verbal Irony. B) Dramatic Irony. C) Situational Irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dramatic Irony. 13. Can literary elements be used in place of literary techniques? A) Yes. B) No. C) Sometimes. D) Only if there is no other choice. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No. 14. Symbolism can be defined as ..... A) Anything that isn't literal. B) A person, place, or thing that stands for a broader idea. C) An event in a story that gives a hint about what will happen later on. D) A very important object. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A person, place, or thing that stands for a broader idea. 15. A comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is said to be the other thing. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 16. What are two structural techniques that add emphasis? A) Italics, all caps. B) Metaphor, simile. C) Flashback, foreshadowing. D) Suspense, empathy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Italics, all caps. 17. ALL OF THE FOLLOWING ARE INCLUDED, EXCEPT:Now that she's back in the atmosphere With drops of Jupiter in her hair, hey, hey She acts like summer and walks like rain Reminds me that there's time to change, hey, hey Since the return of her stay on the moon She listens like spring and she talks like June, hey, hey Hey, hey A) Repetition. B) Simile. C) Allusion. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 18. Words which are inaccurate if interpreted literally, but are used to describe. A) Diction. B) Figurative Language. C) Imagery. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Figurative Language. 19. "Dark and depressing mortuary" to "muffled smell, as of graves" to "sepulchral" to "this funeral game" all support the: A) Theme of death, the need to be remembered. B) Motif of death. C) Theme of life, the power and vitality of being fully alive. D) Theme of insignificance-the power belonging, the pain when you do not. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Theme of insignificance-the power belonging, the pain when you do not. 20. The baby girl's smile was the sun on dark days. What does this metaphor mean? A) The baby girl's smile made other people happy. B) The baby never smiled. C) When the baby girl smiled, the sun would rise. D) The baby girl's smile made the moon come out. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The baby girl's smile made other people happy. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesIntroductions QuizzesLiterary Techniques Quiz 1Literary Techniques Quiz 2Literary Techniques Quiz 3Literary Techniques Quiz 4Literary Techniques Quiz 6Literary Techniques Quiz 7Literary Techniques Quiz 8Literary Techniques Quiz 9Literary Techniques Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books