This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Techniques > Literary Techniques – Quiz 8 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Techniques Quiz 8 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Your teacher says, "Make sure you study your notes tonight!" A) Flashback. B) Foreshadow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foreshadow. 2. Someone or something placed in an inappropriate period of time. A) Anaphora. B) Anachronism. C) Historianism. D) Past tense. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anachronism. 3. An argument with your older sister is interrupted by your parents. Then, behind their backs, you say ..... A) "This isn't over yet." (foreshadowing). B) "This isn't over yet." (metaphor). C) "This isn't over yet." (symbolism). D) "This isn't over yet." (conflict). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "This isn't over yet." (foreshadowing). 4. Which is a prime example of alliteration? A) Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. B) Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are. C) Immaculate and pure, her aura frosty, she tinkers, hoping for a new age. D) The boy is the father of the man. . Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. 5. Iambic Pentameter is..... A) 1 line syllable divided into five iambic feet. B) 10 syllable line divided into five iambic feet. C) I am what I am . D) A unit in poetry consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 10 syllable line divided into five iambic feet. 6. "I said I'm so sick of love songs, so sad and so slow." A) Imagery. B) Symbolism. C) Alliteration. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 7. Where should your point be? A) The beginning and the end. B) The middle. C) The beginning. D) Throughout the PEA. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The beginning and the end. 8. Julie was terrified; a mouse in the eyes of a hungry predator A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Pathetic fallacy. E) A combination. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 9. Sing a song of sixpence.Conspiring cells of summer shells. A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Sibilance. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sibilance. 10. Writer's techniques means special methods or tools that you can use to make writing more interesting or colourful. Which of these is not a writing technique? A) Imagery. B) Using a variety of sentence starters. C) Good handwriting. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Good handwriting. 11. Which device is being used? "He closed his eyes and was suddenly transported to his first time travelling alone." A) Flashback. B) Foreshadowing. C) Setting. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Flashback. 12. What is the following an example of?:"Little did I know that day would change the course of my life forever" A) Onomatopoeia. B) Foreshadowing. C) Simile. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foreshadowing. 13. For emphasis to intentionally impact the reader, Octavia Butler uses "short sentences" such as "My left arm" that are actually A) Dependent clauses. B) Simple sentences. C) Phrases. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Phrases. 14. How a poem is set up or how it rhymes (AABB CCDD) A) Oxymoron. B) Metaphor. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Idioms. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme scheme. 15. The distinctive way in which a writer uses language which includes:diction, tone, and syntax A) Genre. B) Style. C) Tone. D) Narrator. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Style. 16. What does FAST stand for when analyzing a character? A) Figurative, Allusion, Simile, Theme. B) Funny, Angry, Sad, Trusting. C) Feelings, Actions, Speech, Thoughts. D) Fruit, Apple, Snake, Triceratops. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Feelings, Actions, Speech, Thoughts. 17. A category of literature marked by shared features. A) Prose. B) Stanza. C) Plot. D) Genre. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Genre. 18. The restatement of words or phrases that emphasize a particular point A) Repetition. B) Rhyme. C) Rhythm. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 19. A change in movement in a piece from one point, idea, concept, etc. to another. Usually signaled by words such as but, then, however, etc. A) Parallelism. B) Style. C) Shift. D) Denotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shift. 20. Which of the following is a coordinating conjunction? A) However. B) Although. C) After. D) Before. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) However. ← 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 9Literary Techniques Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books