This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Techniques > Literary Techniques – Quiz 6 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Techniques Quiz 6 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Harsh, clashing, or dissonant sounds A) Climax. B) Consonance. C) Assonance. D) Cacophony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cacophony. 2. The pen danced across the page is an example of A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 3. The character antagonist of this story is: A) Raghu. B) Ravi. C) Mira. D) Ma. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Raghu. 4. Reinforcing a theme through the deliberate exaggeration or emphasis of something uses what specific technique? A) Hesitation. B) Hubris. C) Humour. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 5. Which of these pairs is not a pair of opposites? A) Connotation and denotation. B) Euphony and cacaphony. C) Simile and metaphor. D) Inference and irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Connotation and denotation. 6. Which of the following was NOT a leading Black poet in America's history? A) Langston Hughes. B) Walt Whitman. C) Maya Angelou. D) Donna Kate Rushin. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Walt Whitman. 7. "Big baby, " "alone together, " and "original copy" are examples of? A) Onomatopoeia. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oxymoron. 8. Character says one thing but means the opposite A) Verbal Irony. B) Dramatic Irony. C) Situational Irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Verbal Irony. 9. Rhyme in which there is repetition of vowel sounds A) Repetition. B) Rhyme. C) Alliteration. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Assonance. 10. An Anecdote is..... A) Repetition of the same word or phrase at the end of a line throughout a work or the section of a work. B) A comparison between two unlike things, this describes one thing as if it were something else. C) A short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person. D) Someone or something placed in an inappropriate period. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person. 11. What literary technique is being used here? "All about him black metal pots were boiling and bubbling on huge stoves, and kettles were hissing and pans were sizzling, and strange iron machines were clanking and sputtering, and there were pipes running all over the ceiling and walls, and the whole place was filled with smoke and steam and delicious rich smells." A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Idiom. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 12. " The road was a ribbon of moonlight" is an example of which these literary technique? A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 13. The use of any object, person, place, or action that both has a meaning in itself and that stands for something larger than itself A) Dialogue. B) Flashback. C) Symbolism. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbolism. 14. "The road was a ribbon of moonlight, "is an example of which of these literary techniques? A) Oxymoron. B) Dramatic Irony. C) Verbal Irony. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 15. What language feature best fits this definition: "the ends of words have the same sounds" A) Rhyme. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Sound Clusters. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 16. Metaphor is another type of imagery. Which of the following statements is not true about metaphors. A) A metaphor says one thing is another thing. B) Metaphors are used to create pictures in readers heads. C) Metaphors are types of similes. D) Metaphors can be found in poems, plays and stories. . Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphors are types of similes. 17. The repetition of vowel sounds in words that are close together. A) Assonance. B) Rhyme. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 18. Speech, thoughts, effects on others, actions, and/or looks of a character. A) Adjectives. B) Adverbs. C) Characterization. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Characterization. 19. Which of these is a simile? A) It was a hot, hot day. B) It was as hot as the sun. C) The classroom was an oven. D) Sweat poured down his face, blinding him as he tried to work. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It was as hot as the sun. 20. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words is called ..... A) Personification. B) Alliteration. C) Oxymoron. D) Allusion. 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