This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Techniques > Literary Techniques – Quiz 7 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Techniques Quiz 7 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "Like the Nazis, ante bellum whites had known quite a bit more than I ever wanted to learn" (117). This sentence contains A) Allusion and metaphor. B) Allusion and simile. C) Allusion only. D) Simile and anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion and simile. 2. Epiphora is ..... A) Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of a line throughout a work or the section of a work. B) Repetition of the same word or phrase at the end of a line throughout a work or the section of a work. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition of the same word or phrase at the end of a line throughout a work or the section of a work. 3. "The engine roared" is an example of: A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Repetition. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 4. Impersonation A) Repetition of initial consonant sounds. B) Comparison using like or as. C) An unclear object that is personified. D) Comparison not using like or as. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An unclear object that is personified. 5. This choice impacts the audience by giving them something else to connect an idea with or a new way to see a concept A) Imagery. B) Analogy. C) Call to action. D) Facts and statistics. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Analogy. 6. "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. 7. Combines clashing terms (ex-jumbo shrimp, pretty ugly) A) Onomatopoeia. B) Irony. C) Oxymoron. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oxymoron. 8. An understatement in which the affirmative is expressed by the negation of the opposite. A) Conceit. B) Hyperbole. C) Litotes. D) Enjambment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Litotes. 9. The pilot has a fear of heights is an example of satire A) TRUE. B) FALSE . Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FALSE . 10. Good authors create conflict for their characters. Which is NOT a type of conflict in the story? A) Person vs. Person-because Eli's has conflict with other family members. B) Person vs. Self-because Eli struggles with whether cloning is immoral. C) Person vs. Nature-because going outside could lead to radiation poisoning. D) Person vs. Society-because no one is coming to rescue them. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Person vs. Society-because no one is coming to rescue them. 11. The use of words and phrases that appeal to the five senses. A) Allusion. B) Allegory. C) Imagery. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 12. I saw him woo her like from the tales of old. A) Alliteration. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 13. He is a sneaky fox. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 14. What literary technique involves placing two things side by side for comparison or contrast? A) Juxtaposition. B) Oxymoron. C) Stanza. D) Form. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Juxtaposition. 15. Hints about what will happen in the future of a text. A) Backshadowing. B) Foreshadowing. C) Flashback. D) Flashforward. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foreshadowing. 16. The wind howled menacingly into the night A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Pathetic fallacy. E) A combination. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) A combination. 17. " ..... he was just lying there by a fence, and I-I just thought it was a scarecrow." (Kaufmann, 43). A) Metaphor. B) Diction. C) Dialogue. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 18. Attributing human characteristics to nonhuman objects A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Pun. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 19. Multiple words or a continuous phrase that authors use to represent people, objects, actions, feelings, and ideas visually by appealing to the senses A) Irony. B) Imagery. C) Dialect. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 20. As flat as a pancake A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Pathetic fallacy. E) A combination. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesIntroductions QuizzesLiterary Techniques Quiz 1Literary Techniques Quiz 2Literary Techniques Quiz 3Literary Techniques Quiz 4Literary Techniques Quiz 5Literary Techniques Quiz 6Literary Techniques Quiz 8Literary Techniques Quiz 9Literary Techniques Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books